The WSU AgWeatherNet team recently installed a weather station at WSU’s Spillman Agronomy Farm located two miles southeast of Pullman. The station is equipped with sensors for monitoring and recording air temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, solar radiation, leaf wetness, soil temperature and moisture at a depth of eight inches, and rainfall. “The […]
Online tutoring available for a year to WSU distance degree students is now offered to students on all WSU campuses too. Janet Kendall, director of distance degree programs (DDP), was instrumental in organizing WSU’s participation in the program. She learned about a distance-learning consortium, ONLINE @ www.etutoring.org, and sought to add a Northwest regional group […]
A new website highlights the annual WSU statewide Facts & Figures brochure. Contents include various statistics and information about enrollment, campuses, national recognition and more. To download a PDF of the brochure or find out how to request a copy, see ONLINE @ http://facts-figures.wsu.edu.
PULLMAN – A dozen art works created by Pauline Sameshima, assistant professor at WSU, are being featured in the on-line gallery of the Arts Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. The web address is http://aber-sig.org/Gallery.html Sameshima, who teaches arts integration in the WSU College of Education, […]
The start of the school year is a good time for faculty and staff, both new and old, to chekc thier online paystubs through the Web PBS system to make sure their benefit selections are accurate. Employees can quickly and easily monitor their benefits by visiting www.ba.wsu.edu/webpbs/index.html, clicking the “Proceed ” link and then […]
PULLMAN – Washington State University Parking and Transportation Services will be offering annual campus parking permit renewals for 2007/2008 on the Web. Eligible annual permit holders will be contacted via a MyWSU portal notice and a postcard mailing that will direct them to the WSU Parking and Transportation Web site for the renewal, which is […]
Parking and Transportation Services at WSU Pullman will launch a webpage later this month allowing faculty, staff and students to renew their 2006-07 campus parking permits online. Eligible annual permit holders will be contacted via the MyWSU portal and a post card mailing that will direct them to the Parking and Transportation website, http://www.wsu.edu/parking, where […]
WSU’s Northwest Public Radio is procuring items and services from businesses for its first-ever online auction, Feb. 3-12, to contribute to the operations of the university’s public radio service. Using the website to auction items of interest to the station’s audience was a logical extension to help with fund raising and to engage the audience, […]
Tom Dickinson, WSU Regents professor, Paul A. Anderson professor of physics, and professor of material science, will discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the WSU On-Line Question and Tutoring System during a physics and astronomy colloquium on Tuesday, Oct. 18.The title of the colloquium is “What you can do and what you can’t do with […]
Professional training opportunities for Washington State University faculty, staff and students statewide multiplied exponentially on Monday, June 27, and became available online at the touch of a computer mouse.This new instructional venue — sometimes referred to as e-training — is the result of a partnership among Human Resource Service (HRS), Business Affairs and Information Technology […]