PULLMAN – Seven WSU students majoring in organic agriculture have been selected as the first recipients of the Pacific Natural Foods Organic Agriculture Scholarship, the first scholarship dedicated to the new organic agriculture systems major at the university. Haly L. Ingle, a sophomore from Waitsburg; Karly Marie Kercheval and Mark W. Knue, both juniors from Mount Vernon; […]
RICHLAND, Wash.- CH2M HILL has presented Washington State University Tri-Cities with an unrestricted gift of $600,000 to advance the pursuit of knowledge on the Tri-Cities campus. In addition, because WSU Tri-Cities has experienced overwhelming interest in its programs, CH2M HILL is also sponsoring 10 freshman scholarships, each worth $6,000. “Our company is a strong advocate […]
Residents throughout the region will have an opportunity to support the Future Cougars of Color Scholarship Program when the Kalispel Tribe hosts a dinner at Northern Quest Casino, 6 p.m. Thursday April 19, at Northern Quest Casino in Spokane (Airway Heights), Wash. The dinner is a partnership between WSU, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and Northern Quest Casino, […]
Richland – EnergySolutions today announced the gifting of 10 scholarships to incoming freshmen at Washington State University Tri-Cities as part of the company’s commitment to education. Each scholarship will provide a student with $3,000 during the 2007-08 freshman year and another $3,000 in the senior year. “We are thrilled to have EnergySolutions involved through its scholarship […]
Sometimes people are a product of their surroundings, and sometimes these surroundings can be auspiciously beneficial. Lai-Sheng Wang, recipient of the Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Research, Scholarship and Arts, was a high school student when China’s cultural revolution ended. “Had that not happened, I wouldn’t have gone to college,” said Wang. “I would have […]
PULLMAN – Washington State University has awarded 255 students with scholarships through the Regents Scholars Program. The students were nominated their junior year by 167 high schools across the state. A complete list of this year’s Regents Scholars and their schools is available at www.regents-scholarship.wsu.edu. The top 25 nominees were named Distinguished Regents Scholars, a […]
Everyone has something that keeps them going. For Michael Skinner, director for the Center for Reproductive Biology at WSU, those things are a basic curiosity and a drive to find the answers to questions.Over the past couple of years, Skinner and his research team discovered a direct link between environmental exposures and human reproductive health. […]
The WSU Intercollegiate College of Nursing Academic Health Services has received a $10,000 scholarship from the Washington State Collaborative: Diabetes Management and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. A team of faculty nurse practitioners and support staff from the college and People’s Clinic will work together with clinic teams from across the state for 18 months, focusing on […]
St. Hilaire Cellars owner Gary L. Jackson believes our state’s Hispanic farm workers do not get the credit they deserve. “I don’t think people realize that if there were no Hispanic farm workers, there would be no wine industry in the State of Washington,” he said.As a way to recognize farm workers’ contribution to the […]
In May, 509 high school juniors throughout the state were nominated for the 2005 Regents Scholars program by their principals. All nominees meeting the program criteria are offered a Crimson Regents Scholarship ($6,000 over two years), with 75 receiving the Silver Regents Scholarship ($8,000, over two years), and 25 receiving the Distinguished Regents Scholarship (four-year […]