environmental

Green Bike program to temporary close

      PULLMAN – The Green Bike Program will close temporarily for routine maintenance Tuesday-Wednesday, Aug. 3-4.   All bicycles in the Green Bike fleet will undergo routine maintenance and cleaning for a two-day period in order to prepare for the Fall 2010 academic semester. During this time, people who check out bikes on […]

Professor named American Chemical Society fellow

PULLMAN – Yong Wang, Voiland Distinguished Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, and associate director of the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS).   Fellows are recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in chemical science […]

2007 WSU drinking water report available

  WSU Environmental Health and Safety has issued the 2007 Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report that summarizes the drinking water quality for the Pullman campus system. The US Environmental Protection Agency requires that large public water systems issue an annual Consumer Confidence Report to the users of the drinking water system.  The annual drinking water quality […]

Ethiopian environmentalist to speak about biosafety

PULLMAN – Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, general manager of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority and a much-honored scientist and diplomat, will speak on “The Politics of Biosafety” at noon, Wednesday, Sept. 27, in room T-101 of the Food Science and Human Nutrition Building . “Dr. Tewolde is internationally known as someone who stands up for the […]

Study links environmental toxins to inherited diseases

PULLMAN — A disease you are suffering today could be a result of your great-grandmother being exposed to an environmental toxin during pregnancy – and you may already have passed it along to your children. That’s the conclusion reached by researchers at Washington State University, who have found that exposure to an environmental toxin during […]