PULLMAN – WSU came in second in the Pac-10 fitness challenge just short of first place’s Stanford. Stanford surpassed WSU at 9:20 p.m. Friday night by logging 592,101 weighted minutes (661,566 total minutes). WSU had 564,167 weighted minutes (733,638 total minutes) of activity logged. WSU had most minutes in student participation, but WSU’s faculty […]
The wilderness environment brings things out in ways that can’t be experienced in other places,” says Debbie Lee, associate professor of English at WSU Pullman. Those insights will be captured in writing by about 10 women led by Lee and English instructor Andrea Clark Mason on a backpacking trip over the Labor Day weekend. […]
Yesterday was the seventh anniversary of the University Recreation Center’s All Campus Challenge, which is URec’s way of celebrating National Recreation Sports and Fitness Day as well as the anniversary of the Student Recreation Center. In 1997, students passed the recreation center referendum; in 2001, the front doors opened to serve WSU and the community. To celebrate […]
Students, faculty, staff and WSU supporters are encouraged to participate in the Pac-10 Fitness Challenge to compete for the title of “Most Active School.” The Pac-10 Fitness Challenge is a conference-wide initiative that promotes regular physical activity and will be occuring Nov. 5-9. People do not need to be a member of the Student […]
Washington State University will enter into a 10-week competition among 49 universities from across the nation beginning Jan. 30 in an effort to collect the most recyclables as part of the fifth annual RecycleMania Challenge.As a participant in the recycling competition, WSU will be matched up against a list of universities that includes five Pac-10 […]
A clarion call was issued last year to researchers nationwide: help solve today’s most threatening global health problems. Now, Washington State University researchers are among those applying to take on the challenge. The process began when Bill Gates announced a $200 million grant to the National Institutes of Health, which will help establish and administer […]