Research

Research aims to improve hip and knee replacement success

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers are working to improve materials used in hip and knee replacements so that they last longer and allow patients to quickly get back on their feet after surgery.

National award recognizes model reservation extension

By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences REPUBLIC, Wash. – Washington State University’s Colville Reservation Extension Team recently won a national award recognizing excellent work and exceptional contributions to advance agricultural science.

Dec. 10: Students present small-town, library designs

  PULLMAN, Wash. – New uses for historic rock houses in LaCrosse, Wash., and ideas for Little Free Library boxes in small towns on the Palouse will be discussed in a free, public presentation by Washington State University fourth-year interior design students 4-6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Carpenter Hall second-floor gallery.

Dec. 5: Student research into health, exercise on display

By Lindsey Smith, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Posters of 140 student research projects will be presented to the public 2-4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 5, in the Physical Education Building 144. The display and competition are part of the biannual Bruya-Wood Foundation Conference hosted by Washington State University’s Physical Education and Kinesiology Club (PEKC).

Localized climate change contributed to ancient depopulation

By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have detailed the role of localized climate change in one of the great mysteries of North American archaeology: the depopulation of southwest Colorado by ancestral Pueblo people in the late 1200s.