University Category: Alumni

The donations will be used to help boost fundraising for the construction of the Indoor Practice Facility and the Champions Complex renovation on WSU’s Pullman campus.

“My plan was to go for five years and get two degrees — one in accounting and the other in business administration. But plans change.” — Vanessa Moore

Bob Donegan, president of Ivar’s seafood restaurants, will visit WSU to share his experience and expertise in leading the restaurant for two decades.

Marina Tolmacheva, WSU professor emerita of history and an expert in Islamic and world history, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to teach in Kazakhstan.

In 2010, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation donated $26 million help create the Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health.

Susan Finley, professor of education at WSU Vancouver, has been awarded the Ormsby Award for Faculty Citizenship for her exceptional civic engagement.

WSU alumni Rob and Brenda Mercer of Mercer Wine Estates will discuss their Prosser winery and this year’s Cougar V wine, Sept. 15 at the Brelsford Visitor Center.

Four panelists will speak on the topic “Business and the Millennial Generation: Consumers, Leaders, Game Changes” at the annual Power Breakfast.

Patti Hirahara donated more than 2,000 photos taken by her father and grandfather while in a WWII Japanese American incarceration camp.

Zachary Howard, a WSU genetics and cell biology major, has received a $7,500 Goldwater Scholarship.