WSU Tri-Cities

Dr. Scott Jasechko, University of Calgary, and CEREO present “The Age of Global Fresh Waters” on Oct. 19 at 1:30 p.m. in PACCAR 202.

By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Seven research teams at Washington State University will enhance the competitiveness of Pacific Northwest crops by fighting devastating diseases and advancing sustainable agriculture, thanks to more than $1.5 million in Specialty Crop Block Grant funds from the Washington state and the […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Flu season is nearly upon us, and WSU students and employees statewide are encouraged to get their flu vaccinations.

Flu Shot Fridays began Sept. 29 in Pullman and enable students, faculty, staff and community members to get vaccinated at the Washington Building. It takes about two weeks for your body to develop the antibodies that will protect against the flu virus, so health experts advise getting vaccinated as early as possible.

By Nic Loyd, WSU meteorologist and Linda Weiford, WSU News A blast of cool, wet weather engulfed the region during the first few days of October. Not only did it dig in over the Inland Northwest, but most of the western United States.

By Hope Belli Tinney, Washington SBDC MOSES LAKE, Wash. – New-to-export business owners are invited to a two-day export readiness workshop Oct. 25-26 presented by the Washington Small Business Development Center and hosted by the economic development councils in Grant and Adams counties.

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A method of converting a biofuel waste product into a usable and valuable commodity has been discovered by researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities, in partnership with the Pasco School District, was awarded a $500,000 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program grant to enhance before and after school programming at several elementary schools in Pasco.

They include physics professor Sukanta Bose, postdoctoral researcher Nairwita Mazumder and graduate students Bernard Hall and Ryan Magee. Also contributing were Fred Raab and Greg Mendell, astrophysicists and adjunct faculty working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory detector, or LIGO, at Hanford.

RICHLAND, Wash. – Ronald E. Filipy, who was an employee of Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy from February 1992 to June 2005, died Sept. 14, 2017, at Kalec Regional Medical Center in Richland, Wash.