PULLMAN, Wash.–Michael Katona, chief scientist at the Air Force’s environmental quality laboratory in Florida and former professor of civil engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been named Chair of WSU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to begin in August. He succeeds Rafik Itani, who has held the position for eight years and […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Dorothy M. Detlor-Langan, dean of the School of Nursing at Pacific Lutheran University and a former faculty member of the Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education headquartered in Spokane, has been named dean of the ICNE effective Aug. 1. Detlor-Langan’s appointment was announced today by Geoffrey Gamble, interim provost at Washington State University. WSU is […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Nancy Bell, chair of the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate at Washington State University, has been selected as WSU’s nominee for the 1997 Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr (Pa.) College. A member of the WSU faculty since 1993, Bell was elected chair in 1996. Her work on […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Biochemists Rodney Croteau and Linda Randall of Washington State University have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the country’s most influential scientific organization. They were among 60 new members selected today at the 134th annual meeting of the Academy and are the only new members from the Northwest. Election to the Academy […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Four Washington State University physics students returned last week from Houston, Texas, where they participated in a two-week NASA Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities program. The pilot program, which is headquartered at the Johnson Space Center and nearby Ellington Field, provided 24 teams of undergraduate students from institutions around the country the opportunity to […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–“Endangered Children,” LeRoy Ashby’s new history of U.S. social policy toward children, is not altogether bleak. Earlier this century, for example, the “child-saving” efforts of the Progressive Era produced innovative and humane approaches to dependent children. Even now, in the midst of what he terms a backlash against child welfare, Ashby identifies a few […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Washington State University’s Kartikeya Mayaram, associate professor in electrical engineering, this summer begins receiving $50,000 a year for four years from the National Science Foundation, under the Faculty Early Career Development Program. He won this competitive CAREER grant for his research in the design and simulation of high-performance and high-frequency communication integrated circuits. Mayaram […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–R. Mahalingam, professor of chemical engineering at Washington State University, was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to study, teach and consult in Malaysia for the 1997-98 academic year. He will be affiliated with the University of Malaya’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Kuala Lumpur. The William J. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board is Presidentially appointed […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–A team of Washington State University veterinary radiologists and equine surgeons have developed a breakthrough clinical magnetic resonance imaging protocol for horse’s legs. “The WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital is the only place in the world where live, adult horses can have diagnostic imaging of their legs performed in the MRI system,” said Russ Tucker, […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Fred Hoskins, professor of food and human nutrition at Washington State University, will discuss advances in food irradiation at a meeting of the Ag Bureau of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce Friday, May 2. The presentation, “Food Irradiation, Panacea or Panic,” is scheduled for noon at the Stockyard Inn, E. 3827 Boone. Hoskins says […]