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Faculty play key role in developing high school

RICHLAND — The opportunity to plan a curriculum based on research rather than tradition excites WSU College of Education faculty members, especially because the effort involves a brand new school that focuses on science, technology, engineering and math.  Those subjects, dubbed “STEM,” are universally considered both in need of attention and vital to the nation’s […]

Special faculty share their expertise

Adjunct faculty member Laurel Hansen. (Photo by Steven Navratil) Laurel Hansen knows ants. She earned her Ph.D. in entomology from WSU in 1985 and co-authored the book, “Urban Ants of North America and Europe,” published last year by Cornell University Press.   Hansen, an instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, shares her entomological expertise as […]