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Grant funds expansion of indigenous digital archiving

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Representatives from indigenous archives across the country are at Washington State University through Thursday for planning and training on a free, open-source platform to help tribal communities share their digital cultural heritage.

April 10 proposal deadline for indigenous conference

PULLMAN, Wash. – Research abstracts will be accepted from faculty, staff and students through April 10 for paper and poster presentations at the Indigenous Research Convention for the educational, health and social sciences to be held April 23 in the Native American Center in Cleveland Hall at Washington State University Pullman.

Mestizo center publishes first online journal

By Breck Smith, College of Education intern PULLMAN, Wash. – The first online journal addressing topics for the Pacific Northwest’s Mestizo and indigenous communities has been published by the Washington State University College of Education’s Center for Mestizo and Indigenous Research and Engagement.

Non-technical, indigenous journal solicits manuscripts

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – A native education group at Washington State University is issuing a call for manuscripts for the new Journal of Mestizo and Indigenous Voices, the first online journal for the College of Education’s Center for Mestizo and Indigenous Research and Engagement.

New Native ed leader seeks to develop training, curricula

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Francene Watson recently was named the new director for the Clearinghouse on Native Teaching & Learning at Washington State University. She is working with others to develop new goals and revitalize the mission and services offered.

Researchers to study the role of bacteria in sediments

Brent Peyton and Rajesh Sani, researchers in the Washington State University Center for Multiphase Environmental Research, received a four-year $1.2 million grant for a project to characterize indigenous microorganisms in the metal-contaminated sediments of Idaho’s Lake Coeur d’Alene and to analyze their role in the transport of metals through the environment.The work, sponsored by the […]