Blog offers insights into new lab, sustainability at WSU
PULLMAN, Wash. – A building going up at Washington State University is a practical example of the academic disciplines it will contain.
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Grant makes lab equipment available to area researchers
SPOKANE, Wash. – A $1.965 million grant will help recruit faculty and purchase research equipment in the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University.
Moving into new College of Nursing
Two years after groundbreaking, the WSU College of Nursing recently moved into the new Nursing Building on the WSU Spokane Riverpoint campus. The college’s 600 or so Spokane students will begin classes there in spring semester, and the building will be dedicated sometime in the spring. The $34.6 million building first received a […]
WSU receives NSF grant for engineering education
PULLMAN– Washington State University researchers in engineering and education have received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that they hope will help professors learn successful techniques for teaching and move away from traditional lectures. “It is widely accepted that traditional lectures are not the best pedagogy for students – yet that is what […]
Daylighting lab to promote energy-effective design
Daylight can make people happier, healthier and more productive. The challenge of bringing it into the workplace will be the focus of a Daylighting Lab and Integrated Design Center being established at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane with a grant from BetterBricks. BetterBricks is a project of the Northwest Energy Efficiency […]
Feds pick vet lab as test site
Washington State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is one of seven laboratories nationwide recently chosen to conduct tests for mad cow disease for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA has allocated $70 million for the nationwide program, which is expected to last 12-18 months. WSU plans to test about 5,200 cattle from Washington over […]
WSU lab a national model
Phytochemicals … “5 A Day — The Color Way” proclaim some plastic produce bags. “Now with Lutein!” heralds a bottle of Centrum vitamins. Since the 1920s, plants have been considered essential to human and animal health, mainly for the vitamin A provided in their richly colored betacarotene. As a young researcher in animal science, however, […]