WSU Pullman

Students get grant to promote computer science to girls

PULLMAN, Wash. – Women who become computer scientists end up in high-paying, interesting jobs where they tackle challenges that make a difference in the world. So why are fewer girls studying computer science than 30 years ago?

Faculty workshop: Concept maps enrich learning

By Richard H. Miller, Global Campus PULLMAN, Wash. – PowerPoint presentations divide information into bullet points. “Concept maps” use the opposite approach: They require students to connect information – and that takes them to what assistant professor Olusola Adesope calls “a higher level of cognitive process.”

Ann H. Berry

PULLMAN, Wash. – Ann H. Berry, retired from English, died Jan. 20, 2015. She worked at WSU 1989-2006.

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Rock Doc: To feed or not to feed the birds in winter?

By E. Kirsten Peters, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – During the winter I like to feed the birds. I have a very simple arrangement for this: pouring a mix of seeds on a flat railing outside my dining room window. I regularly attract several species of small birds to […]