WSU Spokane

Open enrollment starting soon

During the month of November, the Public Employees Benefits Board will hold its Annual Open Enrollment. This month-long event is the one time a year that WSU employees can change or update their medical or dental benefits for the upcoming year.

Why the common cold struck when the weather was hot

A cold is associated with the brisk weather of winter – that’s how the illness gets its name. Why, then, did the virus hit students, faculty and staff when temperatures were in the 80s as the fall semester began?

Personal tragedy fuels student’s passion for helping others with depression

By Steve Nakata, Student Affairs PULLMAN, Wash. – Morgan Slack knew the warning signs for people contemplating suicide. As a Washington State University student, she even trained other students how to spot them as part of her work at the university’s Health and Wellness Services.

Grant will create fellowships for researchers with disabilities at WSU

By Addy Hatch, College of Nursing SPOKANE, Wash. – Research scientists with disabilities are underrepresented in the health sciences, yet such scholars bring needed perspective to understanding and improving health policies and services for people with disabilities.

Common Reading book nominations for 2018-19 open through Nov. 1

By Bev Makhani, Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – The Washington State University Common Reading Program is accepting nominations for the 2018-19 students’ common reading book to coincide with the theme “Frontiers of technology, health and society.”

Reducing opioid use via online pain management focus of $2.5M study

 By Addy Hatch, WSU Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. – Marian Wilson, an assistant professor at the WSU College of Nursing, is joining a team of scientists who’ll lead a federally funded, $2.5 million study investigating whether an online pain management program can help patients with chronic pain reduce or eliminate the amount of prescription opioids they […]