Morann Johnson and Sisouvanh “Sis” Keopanapay advise hundreds of undergraduates annually. They are credited with showing valuable investment in their students, working well with faculty and staff to ensure that students achieve their full potential, and exceeding expectations.
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A new advising model implemented by Washington State University’s Center for Fraternity and Sorority Life is bringing about more face-time and better communication with its many member organizations.
Retired Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Scott Carson received the WSU Foundation’s highest honor during the 38th Annual Recognition Gala in Pullman, Sept. 28.

The new “Culture of Health” partnership unites thousands of communities in a 10-year effort to tackle the challenges they face when it comes to health.
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The goal of the BIOAg solicitation is to engage WSU faculty to advance the development, understanding, and use of biologically-intensive, organic, and sustainable agriculture in Washington State.
One of the nation’s most dynamic and youngest college presidents will visit the WSU Pullman campus October 24 to discuss the ways in which students, faculty, and staff can cultivate their leadership skills.
Heather Redman, co-founder and managing partner of the Seattle-based Flying Fish Partners venture capital firm, is the newest member of the Washington State University Board of Regents.
New traffic signal cameras will be installed at two intersections along Stadium Way on Saturday, prompting lane restrictions.
Two hundred patrol officers in the Cleveland police department will undergo training to recognize their subconscious biases using a simulator developed by an assistant professor in the WSU College of Nursing.
A new federal grant will help WSU hire three post-doctoral students with disabilities to become academic researchers, with the goal of having them go on to faculty positions at major universities or leadership roles in federal research agencies and nonprofit foundations.
The complex promotes collaborative and interdisciplinary life sciences research regardless of department or college. Currently, the complex consists of the first three of six interconnected life science research buildings: Vogel Plant Sciences, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, and Veterinary and Biomedical Research.
A cold is associated with the brisk weather of winter – that’s how the illness gets its name. Why, then, did the virus hit students, faculty and staff when temperatures were in the 80s as the fall semester began?
The call went out to the day room at the Union Gospel Mission men’s shelter in Spokane: “Hey, we need somebody who can butcher up some animals.”