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Nursing grant to provide more clinical experience

SPOKANE — WSU nursing students will gain more clinical experience in rural settings and help meet critical health care needs thanks to a $31,000 grant awarded by the Yakima Valley Community Foundation (YVCF). The grant will be used to support a pilot project to fund a clinical instructor who will supervise WSU undergraduate nursing students […]

Bindler continues fight against childhood obesity

SPOKANE — Ruth Bindler, professor for the College of Nursing at WSU, will now have additional time to focus on her research on childhood obesity thanks to the receipt of WSU’s Cougar Gold Scholar Award. The new award program, established by the Office of the Provost, gives leading scholars the opportunity for extended and concentrated […]

College of Nursing moving to Riverpoint

SPOKANE – Two years after a groundbreaking attended by hundreds of community leaders, students, faculty, staff, and alumni, the WSU College of Nursing will move into the new Nursing Building on the Riverpoint Campus. The Clinical Simulation and Performance Lab will move over the weekend, followed by about 200 faculty and staff who will move […]

MBA cheating documented, countered

According to a national study, the primary reason master’s of business administration (MBA) graduate students are cheating is peer influence.  Ken Butterfield, WSU associate professor of management and operations, conducted a benchmark study on ethics and cheating with colleagues from Rutgers University and Penn State. Their research concluded that 56 percent of graduate business students […]