One of the greatest traditions of the land-grant university is its mandate to give back to society. Serving that tradition well is Scott Matulich, professor, School of Economic Sciences, who has been at WSU since 1976. Over the last decade, Matulich’s research has focused on redesigning the management policies in the largest U.S. fisheries off […]
He didn’t like being bound by what had always been, so he did it his own way. And it worked. Victor Villanueva, Edward R. Meyer distinguished professor of English and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has another honor to add to his list: 2005 recipient of the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for […]
On a typical Wednesday afternoon you might find her in the CUB coffee shop — and you are welcome to have a latte with her. Lisa McIntyre, associate professor of sociology, welcomes the opportunity to interact with students and informally continue discussions initiated in the classroom. Actions such as the “Lattes with Lisa” endear McIntyre […]
Learn, discover and teach: these are the tenets of the WSU professor. Mark Kuzyk, professor and associate chair of physics, embodies all three. These attributes are what distinguish professors such as Kuzyk and why he is selected to give the 2005 Distinguished Faculty Address. The award recognizes achievements in research, scholarship and teaching that place […]
It’s a tidy office with clean walls adorned with the expected degrees, honors and accolades from peers and institutions. However, one piece sticks out from the rest: a quote from the mouth of Phil Senger. “Too many university faculty are obsessed with trying to impress people with how smart they are…rather than being obsessed with […]
Nine grants recently were awarded to faculty for projects to improve teaching and learning assessment at Washington State University. This is the third year the grants have funded undergraduate teaching and learning projects; however, the content of this year’s projects and the collaborators involved highlight a sharper focus on assessment and on improvements at the […]
Every hundred years or so, it’s a good idea to evaluate how your organization is structured and whether a bit of tweaking would allow it to run more efficiently, productively or logically. The challenge is, people don’t always welcome change or agree on how it should be designed. Washington State University faculty currently are evaluating […]
Yogendra M. Gupta, WSU professor of physics and director of the Institute for Shock Physics, has been named the winner of the 2005 Eminent Faculty Award. The $15,000 award was created in 2000 at the request of President V. Lane Rawlins to honor career-long excellence within WSU’s academic community. Recipients must have changed the thinking […]
WSU Today was overwhelmed by the response to its request for WSU faculty and staff who are editors, co-editors, associate or assistant editors of top-tier journals. Obviously, many at our university are involved in scholarly pursuits that reach far beyond the WSU campuses.WSU Today received 12 pages of information with more than 125 names. And […]
University faculty and students are finding it more difficult to access information they need because of the increasing costs, and subsequent campus cancellations, of subscriptions to scholarly journals. Though worldwide in scope, the problem is intimately known to individuals at WSU. “When we develop new courses or areas of scholarship, it is extremely difficult to […]