Scientific American – Meanwhile, monitoring those who interacted with Duncan continues and will only end on October 19, three weeks after he entered the hospital. And October 31 is when monitoring those who came into contact with his nurses will end. As Barry Hewlett, a medical anthropologist at Washington State University who has studied past Ebola outbreaks, says: “Trust is a major issue in outbreak containment.”
Wired – One of the more interesting advances that has been made resulted from an experiment at Washington State University. Eric Sorensen, a WSU science writer, reports, “Researchers at Washington State University have used a super-cold cloud of atoms that behaves like a single atom to see a phenomenon predicted 60 years ago and witnessed only once since.”
NPR – But all these measures cost money. And White, who wrote the paper as part of her doctoral research in the department of animal sciences at Washington State University with WSU economist Mike Brady, says producers will need incentives to make those kinds of eco-friendly investments.
The Spokesman-Review – The city announced this week it will help Washington State University lobby the Legislature for money to begin establishing its own medical school on Spokane’s Riverpoint campus. The WSU request for $2.5 million in startup funding over the next two years is among the city’s top three legislative priorities for the upcoming 2015 session.