WSU and the WSU Foundation announced that the Spark Academic Innovation Hubs’ marquee lecture space will be named the PACCAR Lecture Hall, thanks to a generous donation from PACCAR Inc.
The WSU Crimson Community Grants fund provided the money to nearly 800 low‑income students statewide to help meet educational and related expenses during a spring semester impacted by the COVID‑19 pandemic.
An endowed deanship in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, and an endowed directorship in Cougar Athletics, are being established thanks to a generous future gift intention from Bruce Amundson and Julie Parker.
The Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean honors the spirit of James S. “Cashup” Davis, an enterprising English immigrant who homesteaded on the Palouse, building a now-vanished three-story hotel atop 3,612-foot Steptoe Butte in 1888.
This marks the third best fundraising year in WSU history, and is the highest total the University has achieved when not conducting a fundraising campaign.
The single‑day fundraising drive seeks to break last year’s record. Donors already have committed an anticipated $100,000 in match and challenge gifts.
A $2.2 million gift from the estate of Bernadine and James Seabrandt will create the Bernadine Fulfs Seabrandt Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Biosciences.
A foundation created by a thrifty farmer in Grant County is making charitable gifts to both the WSU College of Nursing in Yakima and the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane.