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Cougars gearing up for strong season start

  Photos by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services       Cougar defense shines in first 2010 scrimmage By Joseph Nickell, WSU Athletics   PULLMAN – The WSU football team held its first scrimmage of fall camp Saturday at Martin Stadium, and the Cougar defense held its offensive counterpart in check for most of the […]

Motorola to show mobile data capture, wireless infrastructure

TRI-CITIES – The Motorola Technology Tour is coming to WSU Tri-Cities to put on a demonstrationof its mobile data capture and wireless infrastructure, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 20, in the main parking lot along Sprout Road.   Hosted in its Motorola Solutions Truck, DataPro Solutions provide seminars in the morning on how mobility can and has improved companies […]

Inventory catalogues 10,000 trees on campus

      PULLMAN – Capital Planning and Development is continuing the long process of inventorying all the trees on the WSU Pullman campus. Cynthia Arbour, campus planner, has recorded about two-thirds of the campus, about 7,000 trees. She predicts there will be more than 10,000 trees in the inventory when it’s completed.    The project helps […]

Family forest management focus of field day

  WSU Extension educator Andy Perleberg teaches a short course for family forest landowners that helps them focus on what they want to accomplish. Photo courtesy of WSU Extension     EVERETT – The annual Western Washington Family Forest Owners Field Day in King County will be presented by WSU Extension and the Washington State Department […]

Aviation biofuel development takes off at WSU

Alaska Airline Boeing 737-800 (Photo courtesy of Alaska Airline)   Gardner PULLMAN – A major WSU effort to develop aviation biofuel is underway with the announcement of a strategic initiative called the “Sustainable Aviation Fuels Northwest” project; the first of its kind in the U.S.  In partnership with Alaska Airlines, Boeing, the Port of Seattle, […]

Apply now for fall graduate student travel grants

PULLMAN – The Graduate School and the Graduate and Professional Student Association now are taking applications for fall semester graduate student travel grants. These grants are intended to help students in their research and scholarly activities and to present papers at significant meetings.   The deadline for the fall 2010 travel grant applications is 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. […]

Daugherty raises defibrillator awareness in Seattle

SEATTLE – WSU women’s basketball Head Coach June Daugherty is continuing in her efforts to raise awareness for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) and Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs), speaking at an event being held in conjunction with the Seattle Sounders FC game Sunday, July 11.   Daugherty is working with the Heart of Seattle Schools Project, […]

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Transition to all electronic internal news system begins

Efforts to expand the use of electronic news and internal communication and phase out the use of printed publications, including WSU Today, will begin Monday, Feb. 16.   The first of several phases in that plan includes:   • Launching a daily e-mail bulletin, titled WSU Today Update, which will provide headline links to news […]

WSU internal comm. moved to electronic only

Internal communications at WSU will be delivered electronically only, according to a policy announced Jan. 14 by President Elson S. Floyd as part of an effort to reduce operating costs and save resources.   As a result, WSU Today – the university’s newspaper for faculty, staff and graduate students – will cease to be offered […]