PULLMAN – The WSU Graduate School is offering graduate students in any discipline the opportunity to obtain a Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Agriculture. Students are eligible to pursue the certificate as long as they meet the prerequisites for the courses required. The certificate coursework will provide students with an interdisciplinary understanding of practices and current […]
Washington State University faculty artist Keri E. McCarthy will present a recital, “Modern Works for Oboe,” at 8 p.m. Sept. 25 in Bryan Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. The program will showcase works by David H. Johnson, Ryan M. Hare, Antal Dorati, Andrea Clearfield, and Alec Wilder. Featured performers include Elena […]
PULLMAN– Regardless of academic potential, many students living in Northeastern Washington, where towns are often separated by seemingly endless and desolate roads, don’t show-up on the radar screen at most colleges and universities. This is especially true if they are from impoverished families that have no experience with higher education. With the help of a […]
WSU Writing Programs is offering a disciplinary focused writing workshop for one WSU department in August. The workshop, which brings together selected departmental faculty for a day-long session, provides instruction and assistance to professors on how to improve the writing of students in their discipline. All funding and catering for the workshop is provided by WSU Writing […]
A Wednesday, Nov. 2 news conference will reveal the details of “Tackling Hurricane Relief,” a two-week program that gives this year’s Apple Cup game between Washington State University and the University of Washington some added importance and an unexpected twist.The 10 a.m. news conference will take place on the Space Needle observation deck.With the massive […]
Fifty-three requests for professional leave in 2005-2006 have been approved by Provost Robert C. Bates. He noted there will be no additional costs to WSU for this program. The recipients and topics, according to college, are: Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences• Markus Flury, associate professor, Crop and Soil Sciences, August 2005-May 2006, to write […]
Poetry written by the late Ruth Slonim will highlight an April 13 program to remember the popular Washington State University English faculty member, who died Feb. 16 at the age of 87.The event, which will take place at 3 p.m. in Avery Hall’s Bundy Reading Room, “honors the long and productive career of Ruth Slonim […]
With spring in full bloom and warmer weather approaching, many college students plan parties complete with coolers full of beer, wine and other beverages. Looking for a good time with good friends, good music and good food, some of those students are bound to end up having a bad time, with vomiting, hangovers, blackouts or […]
Your job title: school superintendent. You’re responsible for anywhere from a couple of hundred to several thousand students, and staff numbering from a handful to hundreds. You play many roles: policy adviser to a board of directors; facilitator of change for continuous improvement; steward of vision, mission and culture; instructional leader; public policy advocate; community […]
Washington State University will celebrate its world class inventors –— researchers whose cutting-edge discoveries have led to the creation of 887 protected patents — during a Friday, Sept. 17, address and reception.Open to the public, the celebration will include an address by Arden L. Bement Jr., National Science Foundation acting director. It will be held […]