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PULLMAN, Wash. – Work is ongoing toward establishing Washington State University-Bellevue College, an open access institution offering both two-year and four-year degrees, according to WSU Provost Dan Bernardo.

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries

PULLMAN, Wash. – Before filmmaker Humphrey Leynse came to work at Washington State University in 1970, he made the movie of his dreams. The subject was a remote island 180 miles east of the Korean mainland in the Sea of Japan/East Sea: Ulleung-Do.

SEATTLE – Washington State University has joined a Seattle-area nonprofit partnership to improve health care and economic development in diverse, low-income communities. It is anticipated that successful programs of Global to Local (G2L) in south King County might be replicated in eastern Washington.

By Alyssa Patrick, Office of Commercialization

SEATTLE – Washington State University is partnering with Koru, a Seattle-based startup that is taking a boot-camp approach to helping students find jobs after college.

YAKIMA, Wash. – Applications will be accepted starting mid-summer for a Washington State University doctor of pharmacy degree program in Yakima offered by WSU and the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences beginning in August 2015.

LONGVIEW, Wash. – Applications are being accepted for a Lower Columbia College and Washington State University Vancouver pilot program for registered nurses seeking to earn a bachelor of science in nursing degree. The application deadline to enter in fall 2014 is Feb. 1.

BRIG, Switzerland – The first class to complete a double bachelor’s degree program through a hospitality business partnership in Switzerland graduated this fall. Some of the 23 Washington State University graduates will head directly into the profession.

By Sylvia Kantor, College of Agricultural,
Human and Natural Resource Sciences

SEATTLE – “Lightning in a bottle” is how venture capitalist Joe Piper describes much of the innovation originating at Washington State University. It is elusive, powerful, brilliant – and captured to be shared with the world.

SPOKANE – After two successful years of helping local teachers prepare students for college, a university-school district partnership has been renamed and expanded.

The Riverpoint Advanced Mathematics Partnership (RAMP) will continue for the next three years, thanks to an $850,000 grant. A similar $371,000 grant funded its predecessor, the Riverpoint Partnership for Math and Science Math Grant. In both cases, federal dollars were administered by Washington’s Higher Education Coordinating Board, with $34,000 supplemental funding provided by the Transition Mathematics Project for the first part of the project.

The board’s associate director Mark Bergeson said he was impressed when he sat in on a … » More …

PULLMAN – The Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) at WSU is hosting a community involvement fair for students and the campus community: Civic Leaders Change Your World, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 4 in the Compton Union Building Junior Ballroom – room 210.
 
This is a drop-in event for students and members of the WSU community to learn about engagement opportunities available through local community organizations. Over 100 local agencies have been invited to participate.
 
CCE offers WSU students, faculty, campus departments and community partners’ opportunities to share knowledge, skills and resources for the benefit of student learning … » More …