By Adrian Auman, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – During her 42 years on the faculty at Washington State University, Frances K. “Fran” McSweeney has demonstrated great personal and professional commitment to the WSU community and has profoundly influenced the university’s direction and progress.
By Scott Weybright, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Ken Casavant’s original goal was simply to get a Ph.D. at Washington State University. Forty-eight years later, the professor and researcher in the School of Economic Sciences has never left.
Sociologist James F. Short Jr., a nationally respected researcher and university leader, received the WSU President’s Award for Lifetime Service March 24.One of the nation’s leading authorities in juvenile gang behavior, delinquency and criminology, Short joined the WSU sociology faculty in 1951 and retired in 1997, when he became an emeritus professor. Although retired, he […]