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Dec. 9: Students to show designs for Coeur d’Alene Tribe site

PLUMMER, Idaho – Landscape architecture designs highlighting the heritage and future of the Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe will be presented to the public 2-4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, at the tribe’s Wellness Center, Conference Room B, by students from Washington State University.

Forest-powered biofuel flight heads to Washington, D.C.

SEATTLE – Washington state-based Alaska Airlines today made history flying the first commercial flight using the world’s first renewable, alternative jet fuel made from forest residuals, the limbs and branches that remain after the harvesting of managed forests.

Nov. 3: Free talk about urban redesign, water management

PULLMAN, Wash. – Seattle landscape architect Peg Staeheli will discuss her projects to retrofit urban areas for livability and sustainability – in particular water use and stormwater implications – at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, in Goertzen Hall 21.

Sept. 26-Oct. 13: Faculty sketches explore ‘place’

PULLMAN, Wash. – An exhibit of drawings by Washington State University and University of Idaho faculty in architecture, landscape architecture and interior design will display diverse approaches in their disciplines to the idea of location.

Through Sept. 22: Students display shelters for the homeless

By Zahra Debbek, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture intern PULLMAN, Wash. – Creative, affordable shelters for the homeless that were researched, designed and built by Washington State University graduate students are on display through Sept. 22 in the Carpenter Hall gallery.

Why plus-size women turn to men’s exercise clothing

By Darin Watkins, The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication PULLMAN, Wash. – A lack of fashion options has plus-size women turning to men’s exercise clothing. That’s the conclusion of a study at Washington State University recently published in the journal Fashion and Textiles.