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Awards and Honors

If you or someone you know has received an honor, please e-mail the information to Cynthia King at cynking@wsu.edu. • Nanoscientist Lai-Sheng Wang, professor of physics and materials science at WSU Tri-Cities and affiliate senior chief scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has been elected to the rank of fellow in the American Association […]

Safety and training stressed among international students

“We always think about the safety of our students,” said Candace Chenoweth, director of Education Abroad. “We have an excellent record. The number of incidents involving our students has been very small when you consider that anything can happen in this world.” Over the last five years, Chenoweth explained, WSU students have been involved in fewer than a […]

WSU leader praises new federal study abroad bill

Lance LeLoup, associate vice provost of International Programs at Washington State University, today praised the introduction of federal legislation to create a national study abroad fellowship program that aims to increase the number of U.S. students studying abroad to 1 million per year. The Senator Paul Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act of 2007 was introduced […]

Going global

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, political science scholar Lance LeLoup realized he no longer could look at American politics without an international perspective. Now finishing up his first year as associate vice provost for International Programs, he wants that world-encompassing view to be shared by all WSU faculty and students. “I want to […]