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Artwork by Kirkland Featured at WSU at African Student Center

PULLMAN, Wash. — An open house in Washington State University’s African American Student Center and Talmadge Anderson Heritage House will feature artwork by Hasaan Kirkland, a WSU fine arts graduate student. The open house begins 6 p.m. Sept. 14, at the student center in Room 201 of the Multicultural Center and Heritage House in Suite […]

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World Aids Conference Teleconference Set Sept. 16 at WSU

PULLMAN, Wash. — A teleconference on AIDS treatment and research will be aired at 7 p.m. Sept. 16 in Washington State University’s Compton Union Building Cascade Room 124. Sponsored by the WSU Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Allies Program and the Stonewall Health Project, the event includes video from the 12th World AIDS Conference, held June […]

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WSU Graduate School Applications Now Online

PULLMAN, Wash. — More than six months in development, a new online admissions application form for Washington State University’s Graduate School became operational this week. The computer-based system permits prospective graduate students, including those from overseas, to complete application forms and to pay application fees directly from their own computers, via the World Wide Web. […]

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Kiplinger Magazine Ranks WSU 39th in ‘Top 100 Values in State Universities’

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University ranks 39th among the nation’s “Top 100 Values in State Universities,” according to the September 1998 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. According to the consumer magazine, public universities and colleges provide the “best of both worlds: high quality and low costs (which) add up to value …” In […]

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WSU Undergraduate Neuroscience Program in Second Year

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University offers one of the nation’s most unique undergraduate majors, the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program, now beginning its second year of enrollment. Three students are currently certified as majors in the program and three students have certified it as their minor. Three others have begun the process of certifying neuroscience as […]

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Artwork by Kirkland Featured at WSU in African American Student Center

PULLMAN, Wash. — An open house in Washington State University’s African American Student Center and Talmadge Anderson Heritage House will feature artwork by Hasaan Kirkland, a WSU fine arts graduate student. The open house begins 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, at the student center in Room 201 of the Multicultural Center and Heritage House in […]

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All-Campus Reception Planned for New Vice President Aug. 24

PULLMAN, Wash. — An all-campus reception is planned for Monday, Aug. 24, for Samuel L. Kindred, newly named vice president for Business Affairs at Washington State University. The reception is set for 5-6 p.m. on Lighty Student Services Building’s fourth-floor. Kindred recently retired as brigadier general and deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Recruiting […]

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Douglas Soltis New President-Elect of Botanical Society

PULLMAN, Wash — Washington State University botany Professor Douglas Soltis is the new president-elect of the Botanical Society of America. He assumed the duties at the society’s annual meeting earlier this month in Baltimore and becomes president of the 3,000-member organization next year. Soltis came to WSU in 1983. He earned a bachelor’s degree at […]

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WSU Student Wins National Award for Botany Presentation

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University botany doctoral student Shelley McMahon won a top national award for a paper she presented at the American Institute of Biological Science meeting in August. McMahon received the Botanical Society of America Maynard F. Moseley Award, which recognizes a student paper that advances understanding of the evolution of plant […]

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Hokanson Discovers Ways to Improve Foreign Languages Learning

PULLMAN, Wash. — Even before she arrived at Washington State University last summer, Sonja Hokanson was full of ideas on how to improve the way students can learn foreign languages. “Language learning is already one of the most difficult things a human can do,” she says. “We especially need to facilitate it in the beginning.” […]

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