PULLMAN, Wash. — “Metamorphosis: How Animals Change from One Body Form to Another” is the subject of a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program talk next week on the Washington State University campus. The March 25 public lecture by Donald Brown, president of the Life Sciences Research Foundation, and member of the embryology department, Carnegie […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Regent Carmen Otero and Donna Shavlik, former director, American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education, will keynote the 1998 Women and Leadership Forum: “Leadership in Our Lives” March 26 on the WSU campus. The forum will begin at 8:15 a.m. in the CUB at no charge […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has planned a day of activities for all transfer students who have been offered admission to its Pullman campus for the fall semester. Set for March 27, the schedule includes an overview of the university’s general education program and transfer credit reports, as well as a financial aid workshop. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Pullman Transit and Wheatland Express will provide free shuttle buses from Pullman and Moscow to the Chipman Trail dedication at noon on April 4. The “This Rail Is Your Trail” dedication will take place on the trail at a crossing approximately two miles from Moscow and five miles from Pullman. Parking at […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s cancer therapy research efforts have received a renewed 3-year grant for more than $1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy. The research known as the Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) Program is led by professor Patrick R. Gavin, a veterinary radiation oncologist. “The […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A recent $200,000 gift by Crown Pacific Partners, L.P., of Portland, Ore., to the Sustainable Development Program at Washington State University has launched the development of a distinguished Chair and establishment of an international institute related to the two-year-old interdisciplinary program. Crown Pacific and its President and CEO Peter W. Stott were […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Three Washington State University employees have been named winners of the 1998 WSU President’s Employee Excellence Awards. Selected by WSU President Samuel Smith upon recommendation of the President’s Employee Excellence Awards Committee, are Eadie Balint, program coordinator, International Programs/Education Abroad section; Daniel Caldwell, Farm Shop/Compost Center manager, Animal Sciences; and Vicki Ruddick, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University soprano Julie Anne Wieck will present a faculty recital March 26. The 8 p.m. program, centered around a springtime theme, is planned for Pullman’s Simpson United Methodist Church and is open to the public without charge. The recital opens with “Hark, How All Things In One Sound Rejoice” by […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The College of Sciences at Washington State University has announced the 1997-98 winners of its annual Student Research Minigrant awards. The $200 grants support creative research efforts by undergraduate and graduate science majors. Graduate students who received the award are David Benson, zoology; Steven Garvis, microbiology; Tsuiping Hsu, biology; Jason Koontz, botany; […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The College of Education at Washington State University, which has an international educational partnership agreement with the Nishinomiya Board of Education in Japan, is now accepting applications for two positions, both teaching English for 12 months beginning in August, in the Nishinomiya School system. Teachers in these positions are expected to engage […]