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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University will present its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Awards 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, in the CUB Senior Ballroom.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Interactive workshops, networking and application help for students – particularly students of color – interested in health care careers will be offered when the nationwide Tour4Diversity in Medicine visits Washington State University on Friday, Oct. 23.

PULLMAN, Wash. – A longtime program to increase the number of underrepresented students who become teachers, principals and education leaders has a new coordinator and a new name.

    PULLMAN – John Fraire’s world is in seismic flux – restructuring of his division, doctoral thesis deadlines, changing student demographics, enrollment growth expectations and, like everyone else, budget cuts. But despite the demanding challenge, he’s enjoying it.   Seven months ago, WSU President Elson S. Floyd announced a major reorganization of the university’s […]

  Ihei Yamauchi is pictured at the front right in this 1908 photo of the WSU Civil Engineering Society.     Excerpted from an article by Hayao Nakahara in the 2010 issue of Insight magazine, Office of Student Affairs and Enrollment     WSU’s first student of color was born in Japan. Although he returned […]

  WSU Tri-Cities graduation 2010. Photo Courtesy of WSU Tri-Cities.     RICHLAND – WSU Tri-Cities received a $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create a Student Support Services Program for low-income and first-generation students.     WSU Tri-Cities will use this five-year grant to increase student success to graduation. About […]

    Related U.S. Department of Education Federal Trio program   PULLMAN – The U.S. Department of Education will award WSU $223,496 a year for five years to continue the university’s Student Support Services program (SSS).   This is the third federal grant to support the WSU SSS program since its inception, said Lucila Loera, […]

    PULLMAN – About 20 Yakima Valley high school students will interact with health care educators and professionals July 19-22 in the sixth annual “Connecting Youth with Health Careers” program on the WSU Pullman campus. The camp at WSU takes place during the last week of a four-week program and it is organized by the Yakima Valley […]

VANCOUVER – WSU Vancouver established two Community Awards of Distinction as part of its 20th anniversary celebration last year. The awards will be presented annually and nominations are currently being accepted.   The awards will be presented to community members or organizations in two categories: community partnership and equity, diversity and inclusion. Any member of the community […]

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 […]