PULLMAN, Wash. — To celebrate 30 years of providing education to adult students from migrant farmworker backgrounds, the High School Equivalency Program (HEP) at Washington State University’s College of Education is hosting a party on Friday, April 24. The occasion is the graduation of latest group of 28 students, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University will create a process for developing online courses that could change the way the university delivers knowledge, thanks to a $500,000 grant from The Paul G. Allen Virtual Education Foundation. The grant is the first awarded by the new foundation and will make Internet-based instruction more “teaching-friendly.” The test […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The mother of seven children and stepmother to three others was named 1998 Washington State University Mom of the Year during the annual Mom’s Brunch at WSU April 18. Marilyn Krause of Olympia counsels preschool through sixth grade students at Peter G. Schmidt Elementary School and Littlerock Elementary School, both in Tumwater. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Miniature disks, gears, machine parts of all kinds – and even simulated human bones – are cranking out of a sophisticated machine in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University. The “Fused Deposition Modeling” machine, run by computer-aided design, is the modern chisel and sculpting tool for materials […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Alan Chronister, chief of the Yakima Fire Department, has been appointed Washington State University fire chief, effective May 11. Chronister, selected in a national search, succeeds Dan Semler, who retired recently from the university after 30 years as a WSU firefighter, 28 years as chief. Joining the City of Yakima fire department […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The Washington State University Orchestra, conducted by Erich Lear, will present its closing concert of the spring on Tuesday, April 21. The 8 p.m. program is planned for Bryan Hall Auditorium and is open to the public without charge. The program will feature violinist Matthew McLin, winner of the Mu Phi concerto […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A reception for Washington State University’s Center for Teaching and Learning Faculty Fellows and Graduate Associates is scheduled for Monday, April 20, from 4-5:30 p.m. at the Compton Union Building, Rooms 125-127. A program will begin at 4:30 p.m. This year’s summer fellows are WSU faculty members Craig Parks, psychology; Lisa Morris, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University students enrolled in the Freshman Seminar will display their work at the Final Project Fair Wednesday, April 22, from 4-6 p.m. in the Student Advising and Learning Center, Lighty Student Services Building, Room 260. Many of the 150 students who took the seminar during the spring term will be […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Social Psychology, a graduate specialty in Washington State University’s Department of Sociology, received a top ranking in an article in a recent U. S. News and World Report. The WSU offering was ranked 10th among the 12 schools considered best in the nation. More than 120 graduate schools in the U.S. offer […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – “Using Combustion Waves to Synthesize Materials” is the topic of a talk by Bernard J. Matkowsky for the 17th annual T.G. Ostrom Lecture at Washington State University. The lecture, sponsored by WSU’s Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, is set for7 p.m. April 27, in Neill Hall, Room 5W. Matkowsky, a faculty […]