Seattle P.I. – Regents Professor John Reganold, a soil scientist, founded the first organic agriculture major in the United States and the nation’s largest certified organic teaching farm at WSU.
Huffington Post – “In layman’s terms, our best guess is that it occurs when the body doesn’t shut down for sleep in the correct sequence,” researcher Brian Sharpless, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and director of the Psychology Clinic at Washington State University, said in a statement. “Instead of shutting down, certain groups of neurons actually get activated and have us perceive the bursts of noise. Behavioral and psychological factors come into play as well, and if you have normally disrupted sleep, the episodes will be more likely to occur.”