beauty

More sports viewing, less rape intervention

  Stacey Hust with graduate students Chunbo Ren, left, and Ming Lei. (Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today)     Sexualization of sports “People just think sports is sport,” Hust said. But once you start looking critically at how women athletes are portrayed in the media, she said, it begins to look like women’s sports is […]

Disappearing colors spike campus scenes

  Photos by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services, and Robert Frank, WSU Today     PULLMAN – Summer temperatures have spiked and now have begun to occasionally dip. As fall semester begins, here are a scenes from the past few weeks on the Pullman campus, where summertime colors have accented the landscaping … and now are disappearing.   […]

Beauty in the eye of the beholder

It’s true; beauty does lie in the eye of the beholder — in the rods and cones of the retina, to be exact. According to Ken Kardong, professor of evolutionary biology in the WSU School of Biological Sciences, it is the neurobiology — or the way that color and light receptors in our eyes respond […]

Abundant Harvest

Ricardo Diaz, a WSU agribusiness graduate student from Chile and a member of the Horticulture Club, sets out pumpkins for sale recently at Tukey Orchard on Airport Road. Apples, pears and potatoes are available too. Hours are noon-6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. (Photo by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services) (*note, this […]