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Get your health questions answered by Wellbeing staff

    Related What is WSU Wellbeing? Wellbeing tools and assessments National Wellness Institute Wellness.com PULLMAN – The WSU Wellbeing staff is offering a new service called Ask WB.   Ask WB is a health education and information resource for faculty, staff and students. Submissions will be kept anonymous and answered by Wellbeing staff in […]

Cougar Gold puzzles Obama press corp

    Related Fall 2010 Washington State magazine – The secret to Cougar Gold  08-14-10 WSU Today – Circa 1987: Oldest Cougar Gold cracked open, still tasty 08-11-10 WSU Today – Cheese can design changes; product remains  09-16-08 WSU Today – Ferdinand’s 60th anniversary 05-12-06 WSU Today – What’s in a name? WSU bullish on […]

Leadership training series to begin Sept. 1

The 2010-11 Leadership Training Workshop Series, designed for new department chairs, school directors and other university leaders, is slated to begin Sept. 1.   This year’s series includes 10 workshops, 90 minutes in length each, that are scheduled from Sept. 1-March 24. The workshops are are offered both via classroom and via WSU Videoconferencing Services. […]

Nuclear waste panel fails to address underlying mistrust

Rosa PULLMAN – A renewed federal effort to fix the nation’s stalled nuclear waste program is focusing so much on technological issues that it fails to address the public mistrust hampering storage and disposal efforts.   Writing in the latest issue of the journal Science, 16 researchers from around the country say a special White […]

Helping with move-in a pleasurable semester start

    Photos, article and SoundSlides by Tim Marsh, WSU Today   Student move-in began Sunday, Aug. 15               Bob Tattershall assists students with move                     Horn PULLMAN – When does WSU’s fall semester 2010 begin? Look at the academic calendar and you see classes start Aug. 23.   But, for Sarah Horn, Stephenson Hall […]

Demand for ‘teacher quality’ could doom schools

Margolis VANCOUVER – The federal government’s Race to the Top program for improving American education won’t work because it’s based on a faulty assumption, according to a WSU expert in teacher development.   “There is no one national version of a quality teacher,” said Associate Professor Jason Margolis. “Successful teaching depends on where teachers are, […]

Oldest Cougar Gold cracked open, still tasty

Al Howell and Russ Savadalena (l-r) with 23-year old Cougar Gold cheese, cracked open on Aug. 12, 2010 at Ferdinand’s Creamery. Photo by Tim Marsh, WSU Today       Related Fall 2010 Washington State magazine – W19: The secret to Cougar Gold Cheese 08-18-10 Wall Street Journal – Cougar Gold puzzles Obama press corp […]

Public forum set for 11 a.m. Monday in CUB ballroom

WSU President Elson S. Floyd has scheduled a public forum for Monday at 11 a.m. in the Compton Union Building Senior Ballroom to answer questions and hear comments related to an administrative reorganization that was announced on Friday.   President Floyd’s memorandum to the university community can be found here. The university’s new organizational chart […]

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 […]

WSU Veterinary College re-establishes eye care

PULLMAN – WSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has reintroduced ophthalmological services at its Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Pullman. Dr. Terri Schneider, former head of the hospital’s community practice service, has completed a three-year residency with Dr. Bill Yakely of the Animal Eye Clinic of Spokane.  She is now in the process of completing board certification […]