May 8, 2019
Affirming statements like ‘eat your lentils if you want to grow bigger and run faster’ are more effective at getting kids to make healthy food choices than simply presenting foods repeatedly without conversation.
Research
June 14, 2019
College students who viewed alcohol advertisements that included objectified images of women were less likely than others to report intentions to intervene in alcohol-facilitated sexual assault situations.
June 11, 2019
Alex Fremier will collect water, fish and sediment samples in the Lower Amazon River Basin with the aim of learning where microplastics occur in the regional web of human food.
June 6, 2019
Surprisingly high levels of pollutants, including formaldehyde and possibly mercury, have been found in carefully monitored homes. Researchers discover levels vary throughout the day and increase as temperatures rise.
June 5, 2019
By dining on pests and reducing growers’ need to spray insecticides, earwigs are unappreciated predators that have important benefits for agriculture.
More Research
June 4, 2019
A WSU-led research group has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel.
May 31, 2019
WSU research sheds new light on what “peer” really means and how separating that term from “friend” will help address adolescent drinking.
May 29, 2019
Their work is a powerful new tool for addressing a bevy of regulatory concerns and commercial claims as non-medical marijuana, hemp and CBD products become more commonplace.
May 20, 2019
The technique uses a liquid mold that can be manipulated with magnets to create lenses in a variety of shapes and sizes.
May 17, 2019
Knodler was awarded 2019 Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease funding for her research exploring pathogenic microbes of the gut.
May 16, 2019
WSU research shows there is an opportunity for developing wine tourism in Washington State and Oregon by marketing characteristics such as natural vineyards and organic practices.
May 14, 2019
WSU researchers and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians will evaluate whether medicinal cannabis reduces opioid use and pain and improves the physical and mental health of clients at the Tribe’s Qwibil Natural Healing and Research Center.
May 10, 2019
A team of Washington State and Tufts University researchers have uncovered fundamentals in how mirror-image molecules interact, a discovery that could have implications in biochemistry, medicine, and industry.
May 9, 2019
The plant-based material surpasses the insulation capabilities of Styrofoam, is very lightweight and can support up to 200 times its weight without changing shape.
May 8, 2019
Leslie New will spend three years on the Western Gray Whale Advisory Panel, studying endangered whales found off the coast of Russia’s Sakhalin Island.
May 6, 2019
Expiration dates on milk could eventually become a thing of the past with new sensor technology from WSU scientists.
May 6, 2019
The initiative is funded by a $30 million grant from USAID as part of a program to initiate Centers of Excellence in water, energy and agriculture in Egypt.
May 1, 2019
The College of Veterinary Medicine has become the first in the nation with an accredited simulation training program developed for and devoted to veterinary care.
April 30, 2019
Celestina Barbosa-Leiker shared early results from an ongoing study investigating how opioid use disorder affects men and women differently at WSU Health Sciences’ Inland Northwest Research Symposium on April 23.
April 30, 2019
The immense amounts of data being created by next-generation sequencing technologies make the kind of annotation errors the WSU team found especially problematic.
April 29, 2019
A new study led by a team of WSU neuroscientists has brought scientists closer to identifying the causes of disturbed sleep in autism.