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Establishing a new degree program and approving supplemental budget requests were among the actions taken by the Washington State University Board of Regents during their first meeting of the academic year Friday in Pullman. 

The latest figures from the close of the 2019 fiscal year, which ended June 30, show WSU’s operating budget ended with a positive balance of about $7.8 million.

Corey Hines will be responsible for supervising facility and staff, and providing oversight for the safe and secure operations of the NSC.

Bimbisar Irom’s Sept. 23 talk at WSU Pullman focuses on western media coverage of the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis that originated in Myanmar and has now spilled over into the neighboring countries of Bangladesh, India, Thailand, and Malaysia.

WSU’s Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center will celebrate its centennial at two special events: an Oct. 2 opening ceremony featuring WSU dignitaries, and a family-friendly community celebration on Oct. 5.

Daniel Petek developed a semester-long curriculum that creates a conduit of employment for Murrow students and delivers an instant pool of potential advertising candidates to Amazon.

Business and marketing major Nam Nguyen is currently interning at NASA in aeronautics research and analysis. He is the first and only WSU student to study abroad on all seven continents.

The Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean honors the spirit of James S. “Cashup” Davis, an enterprising English immigrant who homesteaded on the Palouse, building a now-vanished three-story hotel atop 3,612-foot Steptoe Butte in 1888.

Puyallup mayor and Coug alum John Palmer said the city wanted to show how much it appreciates the connection between WSU and Puyallup residents during Higher Education Appreciation Week, Sept. 23-28.

All of the input gathered during the conference will be compiled and considered during the drafting of the first iteration of the WSU system strategic plan, which will be shared with the university community in January.