Campus and Community

Members of the WSU leadership team will be addressing the community for an hour beginning at 10:30 a.m.

A horticulturist who finds solutions for growing better vegetables, Miles has worked for 25 years at WSU. She is currently a vegetable Extension specialist and a professor in the Department of Horticulture.

Anthropology instructor Jack McNassar is the winner of the award that recognizes Global Campus teachers who employ best practices to engage, inspire, and support students.

Robichaud, a civil engineering senior, is WSU’s fourth student to receive recognition from the Truman Foundation, following a finalist in 2017 and two awardees in 1990 and 1983.

Through the duration of Phases 2 and 3 of the state’s Safe Start Washington plan, WSU employees who can telework without hampering essential operations should continue to do so.

Swanger, founding director of the WSU Granger Cobb Institute for Senior Living, will join a panel of experts to present “Safeguarding Residents and Caregivers During COVID‑19″ on Wednesday, June 3, at 11 a.m.

Denouncing racial violence and the ugliness of historic, systemic inequality, President Kirk Schulz and the university’s executive leadership pledged greater accountability in confronting racial and social justice failures.

The University Fiscal Health Advisory Committee – tasked by WSU President Kirk Schulz to look at ways to improve the university’s financial wellbeing – has compiled a list of recommendations in its final report issued last month.

Brian McNeill, a professor of education and a founding member of the Chicanx Latinx Faculty Staff Association, said his supportive colleagues and a passion for his work keep him going strong as he enters his 30th year at WSU.

Washington State University’s Eggert Family Organic Farm will host weekly public produce sales every Friday afternoon between 3–6 p.m. beginning June 5 and continuing through October.

Abstracts of research and creative work submitted by faculty, staff and graduate students for the poster sessions have been made available in a searchable format on the Showcase website.

Pat Carter was named the 2019-2020 Outstanding School Director for his work leading the School of Biological Sciences. Carter’s research focuses on evolutionary genetics and physiology and he enjoys supporting the research mission of faculty and graduate students.

The Washington State University College of Education kinesiology faculty has recognized its 2019-2020 outstanding students.

Among other things, WSU will use a phone app to help with critically important contact tracing in the event of positive COVID-19 tests involving students, faculty or staff this fall, WSU President Kirk Schulz announced Friday during the university’s fifth online town hall.

The Africa Center of Excellence for Innovative and Transformative STEM Education is composed of prolific scholars from around the world and is tasked with providing research direction for training the next generation of STEM education across Africa.

Amit Dhingra sees leading Washington State University’s Department of Horticulture as an opportunity to give back. Dhingra, a WSU professor of 14 years, starts his two-year term July 1.