A group of WSU students enrolled in architecture, construction management, interior design and engineering programs are disassembling their homemade solar home for its trip on flatbed trucks to Washington D.C. Set to depart Friday, Sept. 23, the home will be on display as part of a solar village—part of the national Department of Energy’s Solar […]
What if you devoted three years of time and money to your education major, only to realize during your senior-year student-teaching experience that you hated to teach? It’s been known to happen. Thanks to the WSU Cyber Mentoring Project, it could happen much less often. Spearheaded by Gerald Maring, a professor with the College of […]
Nine WSU Tri-Cities nursing students-all working toward their bachelor degree in nursing-have returned from a week of volunteer service to Hurricane Katrina evacuees in Louisiana.The students, who spent the week dispensing medications, medical care and supplies to victims and working 12-hour shifts to relieve weary medical teams, arrived home the night of Sept. 11 and […]
Washington State University has completed admission of four students who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. The university is in the process of working with at least seven other students from the affected areas who have made inquiries about admission to WSU.The four students, who have begun classes on the Pullman campus, are from Tulane University […]
Washington State University students began their fall semester classes Monday (Aug. 22) with more than 23,000 students coming back to school at four WSU campuses.Among those students are about 2,900 first-time freshmen who are starting classes on the Pullman campus.The incoming freshman class in Pullman again appears to be a highly qualified group. Preliminary estimates […]
Washington State University veterinary students recently brought home the 2005 gold medal for overall team competition in the national Veterinary School Olympics.“I’ve been a judge at this competition before,” said Gil Burns, associate dean for academics and student affairs in the college. “Each year this serves as an objective indication of the high quality and […]
Some 200 students in grades nine and 10 will participate this week in the annual Washington State University Spokane Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Competition.The event is set to run from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. on March 22 and March 24 in the Phase I Classroom Building on the WSU Spokane campus, 668 N. Riverpoint […]
In an effort to better manage growing demand for enrollment in its business courses, the Washington State University College of Business and Economics has aligned itself with faculty-to-student ratio standards set by the college’s accrediting agency, AACSB — Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The College of Business and Economics strives to offer the […]
Artistic and functional ceramics by students are on sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m. through Friday, March 11, on the outdoor plaza north of the Fine Arts Center along Wilson Road. The sale is a fund raiser by six ceramics students to help pay their way to the National Council for the Education of Ceramic Arts conference […]
As faculty and administration turn to the task of improving graduate education (see related article above), the students themselves have been achieving success on many fronts. A case in point is WSU’s Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), whose members earned two national awards this year and whose president, DaVina Hoyt, is the new vice […]