students

Tri-Cities nabs $7.68 million grant to prepare students

Washington State University Tri-Cities has received a five-year, $7.68 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to increase the number of students prepared to enter college. The grant to WSU’s Harvest of Hope project is part of the DOE’s Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEARUP). Yolanda Flores–Niemann, WSU Tri–Cities Director of […]

Design students contribute to Easter Seals initiative

Guest speakers from Kentucky, Colorado and California will address the link between health and design with Washington State University Spokane Interdisciplinary Design students and area architects on Friday, Sept. 20. In conjunction with the Northwest Architecture for Health Panel and the Easter Seals Society, WSU Spokane will host the seminar on Multigenerational Wellness Design. This […]

Two WSU Pullman students shot in Vancouver

Vancouver police are looking for suspects in a July 13 shooting that injured two Washington State University students. Ryan Quinlan and Wahed Magee, both from the Pullman campus, were taken to area hospitals, each with a gunshot wound. A group of WSU students were at the Vancouver family home of Christopher Weese, also a student, […]

Finance students pass GO!, collect $1,000,000 to invest

Washington State University is lending a group of students $1,000,000 to make money for the school, and with Richard Sias’s expertise, they just might beat the S&P 500 in the process. Sias, professor of finance and the Gary P. Brinson Chair of Investment Management, teaches his students how to understand stocks, portfolios and the market […]

Native American students hosted at WSU camp

The tiny percentage of Native American students who pursue engineering is the impetus behind the Ny’EE camp currently underway at WSU’s College of Engineering and Architecture. The camp, which is free for the students, has grown every year since its 1999 inception. Its name, Ny’EE, or Native Youth Exploring Engineering, came from a student in […]

FFA leaders on campus

The 72nd Annual Future Farmers of America Leadership Conference for Washington is on campus this week, May 16 – 19. The College of Agriculture and Home Economics will host some 2,500 high school students (grades 9 – 12), teachers and parents from almost 200 schools throughout the state. This conference attracts students to WSU to […]

Flood of students

2,400 applications for 400 remaining freshman slots By Sue Hinz WSU News Bureau Admissions officials will be choosing from the cream of the crop in the next few weeks as they decide which freshman applicants are granted admission to the university. Currently, the ratio is six-to-one, with 2,400 applicants vying for 400 remaining spots in […]

Professor delights in students, also tends ‘rat bar’

She’s a native Easterner, born in Rochester, New York, and college-educated in Massachusetts — B.A. in psychology from Smith College, 1969 (summa cum laude) and M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard, 1972 and 1974, respectively. Coming to WSU in 1974 as an assistant professor, it was the first time Frances McSweeney had ever […]