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This year’s Mom’s Weekend Fashion Show has been canceled due to the need for social distancing but students are finding new ways to share their fashion and apparel designs with the world.

“Some of the most important things you can do right now are the simplest,” said Jennifer Ellsworth, director of WSU’s Counseling and Psychological Services.

First-generation WSU students will have more opportunities to participate in community service-learning thanks to a grant awarded to the Center for Civic Engagement.

Within two weeks, 116 Chromebooks have been sent to students who hail from every WSU campus and live throughout the U.S.

Rebecca Kallman is Washington State University’s 2020 Mom of the Year Awardee. Kallman was nominated by her daughter, Davi, and was selected out of more than 170 nominations received.

The center’s staff recorded themselves reading books, singing classroom songs and doing crafts to help their students maintain a sense of normalcy and routine while isolated at home.

Keenan Souve, a civil engineering junior, competed on Wheel of Fortune this February after years of watching the show with his mom. His episode is scheduled to air April 7.

From stories about pandemics of the past to novels of light‑hearted humor, WSU Libraries faculty and staff share what they are reading amid the restrictions of social distancing.

The Ideas for Learning at Home list is an amalgamation of free, research-based, hands‑on activities kids K–12 can do online at home with a parent or caring adult.

WSU instructors get creative to keep their students engaged in online format.

WSU and UW medical students have formed a group that supports working doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapists by providing childcare and performing other services such as picking up groceries.

Melanie‑Angela Neuilly collected the experiences of researchers and mothers conducting their fieldwork while raising children for her 2019 book “Mothering From the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research.”

The 2020 Census is especially vital for communities like Pullman, Vancouver, Spokane, Tri-Cities and Everett, which provide robust public services for their college student populations.

Each year, Wazzu Racing competes in Formula SAE, a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Teams of students are tasked with designing, building and testing small open-wheel style race cars.

Key initiatives include providing interpreters for students with limited English proficiency, modifying training for incoming students, and strengthening liaisons between CHS and units serving underrepresented students.

Pharmacotherapy Academic Fellow Boris Zhang drew on his experience playing Dungeons and Dragons to create an educational game where students spent a class battling Medusa, identifying constellations and navigating a labyrinth; all to help prepare them for an exam.