WSU Pullman

Disabling viruses with CRISPR scissors

In a scientific first, WSU researchers delivered a one-two punch to knock out viruses that affect many food, feed, and fiber crops, using precise, targeted editing of viral genes.

Anirban Roy in the laboratory

Writer to conduct literary readings, lead public workshop

Award-winning novelist and poet Patrick Coleman will visit Pullman from Feb. 4–6 as a guest of the WSU Visiting Writer series. Coleman also is an artist and curator who serves as assistant director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego.

Closeup of Patrick Coleman.

Innovation makers

The Voiland College Engineering Shops are able to provide students, faculty, and staff the ability to make their ideas into a reality.

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A group of shop workers in the Voiland College Engineering Shops.

Remembering Kelvin Lynn

An international leader in industrial crystal development, the Regents Professor and Eminent Faculty member died unexpectedly Jan. 2 while skiing in Utah. A memorial is set for Jan. 17 on the Pullman campus.

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Closeup of Kelvin Lynn

Merit scholar finds a place she can be herself

Bullying, and at times even physical abuse, were not uncommon during Bella Butcher’s high school tenure – the realities of growing up gay in rural Oklahoma. Now, in her freshman year at WSU, Butcher is looking to help others navigating a similar path.

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Closeup of Bella Butcher