PULLMAN, Wash. — Samuel Smith, Washington State University president, has received an honorary doctoral degree from Russia’s Far Eastern State University. He was presented the degree May 19 during an academic ceremony at the university in Vladivostok, as part of a nine-day university trip to Russia, Korea and Japan. During the trip he met with […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The first day of June could be the first day of a whole new business experience for 20 Washington entrepreneurs thanks to a cooperative effort between the Washington State University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the QVC electronic shopping network. As part of its “50 in 50 Tour,” in which the […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Washington State University police are investigating a rape reported to have occurred early Friday morning on the west edge of campus. Captain Michael Kenny said a WSU female student checked into the Pullman Memorial Hospital emergency room shortly before 3 a.m. today and reported the assault. The victim told police her attacker was a […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–For a while, in ecology as well as sociology and other studies of interaction, the darker, Malthusian implications of evolution seemed to garner the most attention. Competition was the name of the interactions game. But in ecology, at least, positive interaction has reclaimed respect and close attention. Positive interactions are simply non-nutritional interactions between […]
SPOKANE, Wash.–Archivists from Washington State University and the University of Oregon have been honored by Northwest Archivists, Inc. (NWA) with the organization’s first ever “Emeritus Member” awards. John Guido, head of WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections, and Keith Richard, who retired last fall after 24 years as the UO’s archivist, received the honors. Guido […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is calling on the public to provide foster homes for 13 or more dogs seized by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Department. The dogs are mostly females and large mastiffs or similar breeds that were seized from an alleged puppy mill in Newport in January. “The process […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–David R. Moers, a veteran personnel executive with international experience, has been appointed director of Human Resource Services at Washington State University effective July 1. Moers has been director of personnel at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Penn., since 1995. He also has been commissioner of personnel for the State of Vermont, a personnel policies […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Four members of the Washington Small Business Development Center’s statewide network of business service centers have received the organization’s top performance award. According to State Director Carol Riesenberg, the Washington SBDC created the Star Performer award “to recognize the highest levels of accomplishment within the SBDC network and to set a standard […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Ten Washington State University engineering students plan a sweep through Seattle May 10-16 to show school kids the fun side of engineering. They will showcase several of their creations, which have included a scuttle-bot robot Callivan, a six-legged competitor Titus Andronicus, a mini-micro-Baja remote-controlled dune buggy, a remote-controlled airplane, and various small hero robots, […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Construction will start in the next two or three weeks on the second building for Washington State University’s Research and Technology Park, opening up both incubator and regular lease spaces. The new 25,000 square foot building will be built by Cargile Construction Group of Spokane on the site directly east of the first building, […]