PULLMAN — Frank Blethen, publisher and chief executive officer of The Seattle Times, will be the WSU Fall 2008 Commencement speaker. The event will begin 10 a.m. Dec.13 in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum. WSU President Elson S. Floyd will preside over the ceremony. Blethen is a fourth-generation member of the family that […]
WSU graduate student numbers continue to climb for fall 2008. Tenth-day enrollment figures show 3,396 graduate students — up from 3,330 in fall 2007. Enrollments showed the most growth on the Pullman (up 26) and Spokane (up 34) campuses while WSU Tri-Cities dropped by nearly 40 students. WSU Vancouver increased by 4. “Over […]
Chris Wuthrich is busy. He works as associate director of WSU Student Conduct, coaches youth soccer and will graduate with his Ph.D. in higher education administration May 3 in Pullman. How does he do it all? “The secret is that I get up at 4 a.m.” Wuthrich said. Balancing family, work and outside activities […]
PULLMAN –The WSU Museum of Art in collaboration with the WSU Fine Arts Department, will exhibit the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, April 18 – May 10. There will be an opening reception Friday, April 18 at 6 p.m. in the Museum of Art. This annual showcase represents the culmination of two or more […]
PULLMAN – The College of Sciences at WSU is taking applications from top high school seniors for a new program called STARS (Students Targeted toward Advanced Research Studies). “This is an exciting program created for the best science students in Washington who are interested in a research career in the molecular biosciences,” said […]
PULLMAN – Xyanthe Neider, a doctoral student in the WSU College of Education, will receive the 2008 Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Award from the American Education Research Association (AERA). The award is given to a graduate student who best demonstrates a consistent and promising commitment to the critical study of […]
The Graduate and Professional Writing Center (GPWC) has opened in Smith CUE 414. It is the newest facet of WSU’s writing program, which has served undergraduates for 23 years. “The communications needs of graduate students are very specific,” said Lisa Johnson-Shull, director of the program’s writing center. “Our challenge was to begin to develop a […]
RICHLAND – Bonnie J. Dunbar will be the keynote speaker at the WSU Tri-Cities commencement ceremony in May 2008. NASA Mission Specialist astronaut and veteran of five space flights, Dunbar has logged more than 50 days in space. She served as the Payload Commander on two flights, including the first space shuttle docking mission to […]
PULLMAN – The WSU Graduate School is offering graduate students in any discipline the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture. Students are eligible to pursue the certificate as long as they meet the prerequisites for the courses required. The certificate coursework will provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of practices and current […]
Howard Grimes, dean of the Graduate School, set a goal of a 5 percent increase in graduate enrollment for this semester and, if you look at the numbers he is most concerned about, WSU nearly doubled that goal. “I’m very happy with these numbers,” he said, showing a graph of new doctoral student enrollments that […]