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WSU students earn the most IEEE power scholarships

By Alyssa Patrick, College of Engineering and Architecture A total of nine WSU students received the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) scholarship in power engineering, which is tied for the highest number of scholarships that the organization awarded to one university.

Video: Accidental discovery dramatically improves conductivity

PULLMAN, Wash. – Quite by accident, Washington State University researchers have achieved a 400-fold increase in the electrical conductivity of a crystal simply by exposing it to light. The effect, which lasted for days after the light was turned off, could dramatically improve the performance of devices like computer chips.

Vancouver professor receives $1.1 million in grants to study how the brain understands what it hears

By Brenda Alling, WSU Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash. – Christine Portfors, associate professor of biology and neuroscience and head of the Hearing and Communication Laboratory at Washington State University Vancouver, has received two federal grants totaling more than $1.1 million over three years. The grants will be used to study how neurons in the brains of […]

WSU Dedicates, Names New Visitor Center

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s new visitor center is now open, creating a new front door to the University. WSU leaders, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and members of the surrounding community gathered this morning to formally dedicate the new 4,224-square-foot building. WSU President Elson S. Floyd heralded the new facility as a great partnership […]

President Glenn Terrell Celebration of Life

PULLMAN, Wash. — A Celebration of Life Ceremony honoring the life and legacy of former Washington State University President Glenn Terrell was held Thursday in the Terrell Library Atrium on the WSU Pullman campus. Dr. Terrell, who served as president from 1967 to 1985, died Friday, Aug. 30, at the age of 93.

WSU designated an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University by land-grant universities group

PULLMAN, Wash.—Reflecting its strong commitment to economic engagement, Washington State University is one of 16 public institutions nationally recently designated as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).