PULLMAN, Wash. — Billie Severtsen, a member of the College of Nursing faculty, has received the first Washington State University Faculty Award for Distinction in Ethics Teaching. The award, which includes a $250 honorarium, recognizes faculty for demonstrated excellence in the teaching of ethics, designing curricula, developing teaching materials, and other programs that incorporate the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Students in the several dance classes at Washington State University will perform Wednesday, Oct. 21, during “An Evening Of Dance” sponsored by the WSU School of Music and Theatre Arts. The dance program is set for 7:30 p.m. at Daggy Hall’s Wadleigh Theatre and will feature students from the intermediate and beginning […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A team of researchers from Washington State University, Montana State University, and Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory began work in June to help stop the movement of toxic metals in groundwater. The project targets two of the most common radioactive and metallic contaminants found in soil and groundwater at U.S. Department of […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A team of researchers has tricked bacteria from contaminated soil into cleaning up the toxic heavy metal chromium. The Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research of the Department of Energy recently awarded them $767,000 to study the basic science behind this bacterial conversion. Eventually, the researchers hope to optimize the microbial action at […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Anne Harrington, coordinator, nonproliferation/science cooperation programs of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau of the U.S. State Department, will replace Steve Aoki in several Palouse area appearances next week. Aoki, a physicist responsible for weapons nonproliferation programs for the State Department, is on assignment and unable to participate in programs at Washington State University […]
How does the present economic crisis in Asia affect the quality of Japanese schools? What discipline problems are Japanese educators now facing in their classrooms? Are Japanese educators concerned that their students are working too hard and studying too much? Japanese educators and their counterparts from the Pullman School District will discuss those questions and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Seattle Times Publisher and Chief Executive Officer Frank Blethen has received the Washington State University Foundation’s highest honor for volunteer service. The Weldon B. Gibson Distinguished Volunteer Award, presented to a surprised Blethen at a recognition dinner gala Friday night, recognizes individuals “whose exemplary service to the University has had a profound […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A campaign recognizing the centennial celebration of Washington State University’s Alumni Association began this week at 75 McDonald’s restaurants in Eastern Washington and North Idaho. More than a million paper tray liners being distributed through Nov. 21, the date of the annual Apple Cup between WSU and the University of Washington, boast […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Professor Warwick M. Bayly has been named interim chair of the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. Bayly succeeds Shirley Johnston, who recently left the university to accept a position as the founding dean of the Western University of Health Sciences College of Veterinary Medicine […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — More than 50 donors to Washington State University of $100,000 or more and four of $1 million or more will be recognized during the WSU Foundation 19th Annual Meeting of Members Oct. 15-17. Some 500 Foundation members — donors and volunteers — began arriving on the Pullman campus today (Oct. 15) for […]