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UW, WSU Spokane announce plans for medical education growth

SPOKANE, Wash. – WSU Spokane and the University of Washington School of Medicine  will jointly ask legislators to allocate the money needed to fund 40 new permanent medical education seats in Spokane over a four-year period. Paul G. Ramsey, M.D., CEO of UW Medicine and Dean of the UW School of Medicine (UWSOM) and WSU […]

Apply now for fall graduate student travel grants

PULLMAN – The Graduate School and the Graduate and Professional Student Association now are taking applications for fall semester graduate student travel grants. These grants are intended to help students in their research and scholarly activities and to present papers at significant meetings.   The deadline for the fall 2010 travel grant applications is 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. […]

WSU News Briefs

Find your Pepsi fix at the Bookie WSU’s contract with Coca-Cola means that the eateries in the new CUB — even those privately owned — all primarily serve Coke products.   The exception is the Bookie, which carries Pepsi because its contract with Pepsi pre-dates WSU’s contract with Coke.   There are a few non-Coke […]

Will fountain flow again?

The fountain, at home at Stimson Hall. (Photo by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services)   PULLMAN — “Here we … uh, had … the Minerva Fountain,” fumbled Clare Wiser as he rounded the corner of Stimson Hall in spring 2007. Leading an outdoor campus art tour, the retired math professor-turned-docent for the Museum of Art […]

State plan addresses evolving idea

The idea of performance contracts, or funding according to results, is part of a recently released draft of a state strategic master plan for higher education. “There seems to be a gradually evolving interest by more people in coming to some kind of agreement or relationship” between legislative appropriation and higher education accountability, said Jane […]

WSU projects funded in fed’s omnibus package

PULLMAN –- WSU programs in agricultural research and the health sciences in Spokane are among those that will benefit from allocations in the new omnibus federal budget, signed into law by President George W. Bush Wednesday. “This funding will play an important role in promoting education, research and economic development for our state and region,” […]

Increased budget opens doors

PUYALLUP – A 20 percent increase in the budget for Washington state’s Food Stamp Nutrition Education Plan means that WSU Extension educators and their partners will be able to reach more school-aged children and their families with research-based information about how best to spend scarce food dollars. The Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. […]

State funds 110 freshmen, bioproducts at Tri-Cities

The biennial budget approved April 22 by the state Legislature includes funding for 110 freshmen and a new bioproducts program at Washington State University Tri-Cities. “We greatly appreciate that the Legislature is supportive of campus growth,” WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor Vicky Carwein said. “The budget will help meet critical campus needs, especially as we expand programs and services to […]