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Leah Benedict to receive 2018 WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award during a 10 a.m. reception Wednesday, May 16, in the Terrell Library Atrium.

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

The manuscript from Honest Abe wasn’t so honest. WSU was hardly the first to be duped with fraudulent historical documents, the subject of a new exhibit at Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections.

Washington State University authors will be recognized at the fifth annual “Crimson Reads: A Celebration of WSU Authors,” 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Terrell Library atrium. Crimson Reads is part of WSU Showcase, the annual celebration of faculty, staff and student excellence.

By Corrie Wilder, Edward R. Murrow College of Communication

PULLMAN, Wash. – Young women enrolled in high schools and colleges told Washington State University researchers that people routinely make sexual comments, both in-person and online, about them and their bodies.

Barbara Quann, 85, who worked for WSU Libraries from Sept. 1975 to Sept. 1994, died Jan. 30, 2018.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries

PULLMAN, Wash. – Long before the phrase “indie publishing” was coined, Virginia and Leonard Woolf set out to create a press for written works that larger publishers wouldn’t produce.

Become a more efficient researcher by investing 30 minutes at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 22.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries

PULLMAN, Wash. – Third-year Washington State University veterinary student Amanda Amore knows firsthand how important her puppy-raising work with the national organization Guide Dogs for the Blind is.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Celebrated mariner Captain James Cook set sail on his third exploratory venture in July 1776. The British Admiralty produced an official record shortly after the expedition’s 1780 return.