In a continued effort “to offer the best undergraduate experience in a research university,” the first goal of WSU’s Strategic Plan, WSU’s Intercollegiate College of Nursing will research the effectiveness of its Native American Summer Nursing Institute. The Na-Ha-Shnee Native American Summer Nursing Institute is a WSU program designed to recruit Native American students into […]
SPOKANE — Twenty-two high school students from 14 Native American Western tribes will learn about nursing and Native American health care issues June 25 through July 1 during the 10th annual Na-ha-shnee Native American Summer Nursing Institute, sponsored by the Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing. The weeklong institute coursework addresses the history, culture […]
Washington State University will present Native American activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk on Wednesday (Nov. 17) when she will discuss her experiences at the 1968 takeover of Alcatraz Island, the siege at Wounded Knee in 1973 and Native American activism in general.The event is set for 7:30 p.m. in Todd Hall Auditorium. A […]
Washington State University’s Native Youth Exploring Engineering Camp, the only camp of its kind in the country, will offer Native American students throughout the region the opportunity to learn about engineering and experience university life June 15 – 20. The camp, located at the university’s Pullman campus, is free to Native American students in grades […]
She’s a professor, educator, mother of three and winner of this year’s Distinguished Service Award for faculty. Susan Banks, assistant professor in Teaching and Learning, is also co-director of the WSU and Northwest Indian College Teacher Training Program, which is working off a $950,000 Kellogg grant. “This program was important because it allowed NWIC students […]
The tiny percentage of Native American students who pursue engineering is the impetus behind the Ny’EE camp currently underway at WSU’s College of Engineering and Architecture. The camp, which is free for the students, has grown every year since its 1999 inception. Its name, Ny’EE, or Native Youth Exploring Engineering, came from a student in […]
The Walla Walla District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with Northwest tribes, has selected the Museum of Anthropology at WSU to rehabilitate archaeological collections from the McNary Reservoir. The collections were unearthed by federal agencies during the building of dams and other federal projects decades ago and have been boxed and […]