VANCOUVER, Wash.— Mark A. Suwyn, chairman and chief executive officer of Louisiana-Pacific Corp., will give the keynote address at Washington State University Vancouver’s 15th commencement ceremony at 1 p.m., Saturday, May 15 at The Amphitheater at Clark County. Public access to the amphitheater will begin at 11 a.m.It will be the first commencement address for […]
Washington State University Vancouver has received a $50,000 science fund to focus on the ecology and conservation of Northwest butterflies and their prairie habitats.Officially titled the “WSU Vancouver Science Fund for Ecology and Conservation of Northwest Butterflies and Their Habitats,” the fund was donated by Stuart and Sharon Shultz. “It is our hope and expectation […]
Leading activist Gopal Dayaneni, oil campaign coordinator for an international organization known as Project Underground, will headline a lecture on Friday, April 25, in conjunction with scheduled Earth Week activities at WSU Vancouver. Project Underground is an environmental rights organization that works with communities around the world to resist oil and mining exploitation. Dayaneni also […]
In the midst of a society that values cell phones, microwave ovens, high-speed Internet access and video games, there exists a centuries-old communal group that chooses to live apart from the modern age. They are the Hutterites, an Anabaptist group that began in central Europe in the 1500s and whose present-day members number 45,000 and […]
WSU Vancouver’s Diversity Task Force will host a MOSAIC — Meet Our Students And Investigate College — fair 10 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Student Services Building, Room 129. The event, titled “Many Faces, One Vision,” is designed to encourage individuals of diverse or multicultural backgrounds to investigate the educational opportunities […]
Washington State University President V. Lane Rawlins has named Hal Dengerink, campus executive officer and dean for WSU Vancouver, as special assistant to the president, to work on the recently announced recommendations for WSU’s newer campuses. He will fill the position on a half-time basis while continuing his Vancouver campus leadership role. “Hal Dengerink is […]
Cassie McVeety, director of Campus Advancement at Washington State University Vancouver, has been elected to serve a three-year term as the District VIII trustee to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s International Board of Trustees. McVeety has served as a CASE volunteer for 13 years and a member of the District VIII board […]
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, […]