Pullman

Teeing up future golfers

WSU’s Men’s and Women’s golf teams hosted the Pullman Junior Golf Club recently to inaugurate the new practice facilities at Palouse Ridge Golf Club. The university has noted that the course will be used as a cooperative tool to benefit the community, as well as the university.  All of the youth lined up to jointly […]

Board of Regents to meet at WSU Tri-Cities March 3

The WSU Board of Regents is expected to take actions regarding two major construction projects for the Pullman campus when the board meets Friday, March 3 at 9 a.m. in the Consolidated Information Center on the WSU Tri-Cities campus.The meeting agenda is available online at http://www.regents.wsu.edu/Agendas-Notices/060303Agenda.doc .The regents will be asked to authorize issuing revenue […]

Liberal arts/tech degree has employers recruiting

A new WSU degree combining technology and liberal arts has employers eagerly seeking qualified graduates. The degree is called digital technology and culture (DTC).To create this unique degree, liberal arts and technology courses were combined. Today there are 150 students majoring in DTC.If a parent questions: Can my child get a job with this degree? […]

WSU to purchase Magpie Forest

In celebration of Earth Day, 2005, Washington State University announced April 22 its plans to purchase Magpie Forest, a 14-acre patch of endangered Palouse Prairie still surviving on the northern edge of Pullman.Magpie Forest has long been valued by local conservation groups and researchers for the rich biological diversity of its native plants, but the explosive […]

Pullman gets the first snow of the winter

Pullman and the Inland Northwest took its first major hit of snow for the year. Some bikes on the Pullman campus did not make it inside before the storm. If you’re wondering about tomorrow’s weather, there is a live link to The Weather Channel in the far right-hand column of the WSU Today website. (Photo […]

WSU conservation efforts making an impact

Since the mid-1980s, Washington State University has decreased the amount of water it pumps from the Palouse region’s deep aquifer from about 700 million gallons annually to about 600 million gallons annually, despite a growth in enrollment and facilities on the Pullman campus. <br><br>University officials attribute the decrease to multiple campus water conservation strategies, including […]

Pullman stops accepting 2004 freshmen applications

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has stopped accepting applications from incoming freshman to its Pullman campus for the fall 2004 semester, having received more applications than last year for a class that is expected to be slightly smaller than last year’s.Janet Danley, interim executive director of enrollment services, said WSU has received about 500 […]

Foundation moves downtown

The Washington State University Foundation has moved into the Town Centre building in downtown Pullman to occupy the second and third floors of the three-story brick building on the southwest corner of Main and Kamiaken streets. The remaining space is occupied by Sam Dial Jewelers, Quizno’s Subs and the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. “Washington State University […]

Sensory facility tests coffee, building new client list

Coming soon to a grocery store near you — several new coffee flavors handpicked, or rather, taste-bud-picked by WSU sensory panelists. In the past several weeks, about 55 WSU volunteers took part in a flavored coffee taste-testing panel conducted by researchers from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition. The company that hired WSU […]