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Angie Stewart with WSU Health Sciences was selected as executive director for the Yakima Valley Interprofessional Practice and Education Collaborative.

Students are testing guest farmworkers as well as working at a drive‑through test site in an area that was a COVID‑19 hotspot this summer.

The move will encourage greater educational partnership between WSU nursing students and osteopathic medical students from the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences.

The collaboration means students can remain in Yakima throughout their schooling, first at Yakima Valley College, then at WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

WSU College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences partners with Yakima Valley College to introduce pre-pharmacy track; students can complete all prerequisite courses without leaving area.

Aerial drones could eventually help Washington farmers recoup some of the $80 million a year in crop damage caused by birds.

With summer barbecue season in full swing, the WSU Insider dug into the Ask Dr. Universe archives for this hunger-inducing 2017 article. 

A Port Angeles pawn shop is flourishing financially thanks to help from advisors from the Washington Small Business Development Center hosted by Washington State University.

Thirty‑five faculty members were granted tenure this year and dozens more received promotions.

The Spokane County Extension Plant Clinic has about 160 active volunteers and 22 diagnostic specialists currently. The program is open March 1–Oct. 31.