President’s column: WSU fosters innovation, prosperity

The department is anticipating an $11.5 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2023 due to a combination of Pac-12 Conference and other revenue shortcomings as well as departmental expense overruns.

The Ida Lou Anderson House was formally dedicated Thursday in front of a crowd of dozens of members of the WSU and Pullman community, where it now serves as the official residence of the Pullman campus chancellor.

The project, funded by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, will help researchers figure out how to make plants produce more oil, which could be a viable substitute to petroleum-based products in the future.

Most employees will see the 0.58% tax that will fund the new state program reflected in their July 10 paychecks.

As part of WSU’s Rural Community Design Initiative, students are working with the LaCrosse community on ideas for an Ice Age Floods and Heritage museum at the site of an old gas station.

Ancient Tribal earth ovens built long before the Egyptian pyramids are being excavated as part of the first archeological project made public by the Kalispel Tribe of Indians.