PULLMAN, Wash. – In a hallway in a building at the engineering end of campus, a string of small, red LED lights blink unobtrusively, powered by a bucket of muddy water. Dedicated crews of microscopic bacteria in the mud generate electricity by doing what bacteria do best: eating. “The microbes eat […]
Photos above of WSU Extension Beach Watchers patrolling and cleaning a beach area. Final photo of Don Meehan, WSU Extension program director for natural resources stewardship. Photos courtesy of WSU Extension. SEATTLE – WSU Extension’s Beach Watchers program is the meritorious winner of the 2010 Education and Public Service award from the […]
PULLMAN – Preventing water pollution caused by agricultural practices is no game, but game-like software simulating the impact of certain on-farm decisions could help a whole new generation of agriculture producers make better management choices that help improve water quality. Researchers at WSU and University of Florida have won a $567,000 grant from the […]
Like soda shops and rumble seats, their popularity has fallen away over the years. Heated therapy pools — once standard in hospitals of the 1930s and 40s — declined in use after the advent of the polio vaccine in 1955, until today they are little more than a medical afterthought. That practice may be […]
PULLMAN – Thanks to two donors and a dedicated veterinary technical staff, Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital medicine services for companion animals including physical therapy and obesity control. The equipment centerpiece is an underwater treadmill purchased and installed in the veterinary teaching hospital with gifts provided by two grateful donors. The treadmill is […]
WSU Environmental Health and Safety has issued the 2007 Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report that summarizes the drinking water quality for the Pullman campus system. The US Environmental Protection Agency requires that large public water systems issue an annual Consumer Confidence Report to the users of the drinking water system. The annual drinking water quality […]
Following are links to several recent media articles regarding WSU faculty and staff, as well as items of general interest in higher education news. To see a full article, just click on the corresponding live URL link. Seattle Times — Washington State’s new president has university changing course. Washington Voices: Editorial views from across the state, […]
A group of Washington State University engineering students will head to Kenya this month, where they hope to start work to design and build a needed water pipeline for residents there. The students, members of the WSU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, hope to build a nine-mile long pipeline to bring fresh water to […]
Media headlines include: * The Seattle Times — Professors, doctors top list of best-paid state employees (in Washington), http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003689649_salaries02m.html * Longview Daily News — Diabetics control a chronic illness, while still enjoying food, , quoting Debbie Zbaeren Fredricks, nutrition educator, WSU Extension, http://www.tdn.com/articles/2007/05/02/this_day/news04.txt * The Oregonian — Environmental health expert to speak at WSU Vancouver, […]
VANCOUVER, Wash. – Biologists from Washington State University Vancouver have begun taking weekly algae samples from Vancouver Lake as part of a $100,000, one-year research contract with the Clark County Public Works department. The contract is part of the information gathering process headed by the Vancouver Lake Watershed Partnership, a public involvement group whose mission […]