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Aug 16, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman
More victims discovered and all students, faculty and staff are strongly advised to begin switching to the Okta Verify mobile application as primary MFA tool. Employees should again check their direct deposit information in Workday and all WSU students, faculty and staff are strongly advised to begin switching now to the Okta Verify mobile application as their primary multi-factor authentication (MFA) tool.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman
Nearly 400 mature frogs will soon be released into the wild of the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge thanks to a team of Washington State University scientists and their collaborators. The goal of the conservation effort is to bolster the native population of endangered northern leopard frogs in central Washington.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Josh Babcock |Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Hailey J James
The fuel that ignited Peyton Burpee’s dream of becoming a physician isn’t something he likes to talk about much — it makes him a little uneasy just thinking about it. When he was just 4 years old, Burpee, now a Washington State University neuroscience student, became the 18th person in the United States diagnosed with a rare and potentially deadly congenital heart defect known as anomalous coronary artery. His oldest brother before him was just the eighth person to be diagnosed with the defect.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman
PULLMAN, Wash. — A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging and assembly lines where humans and robots work together, the algorithm developed to account for human carelessness improved safety by about a maximum of 80% and efficiency by about a maximum of 38% compared to existing methods. The work is reported in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Scott Weybright |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman |Debby Stinson
Washington State University is part of a USDA NextGen program that enables eligible institutions to build and sustain the next generation of food, agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences professionals. WSU recently received $1.4 million in funding from lead grantee Northern Marianas College (NMC), to work on their NextGen program. The program will help students such as Mark Terlaje Pangelinan, who was born and raised on the Pacific island of Saipan.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
news.wsu.edu | RJ Wolcott |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman
Washington State University is transitioning its compliance training and professional development platform to the latest version of Percipio later this week. The move to Percipio 2.0 is scheduled to take place Wednesday, with all compliance content moving onto the main Percipio platform. The transition will also expand access for compliance-only users to include all WSU-created content as well as instructor-led trainings.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
news.wsu.edu | Kylie Condosta |RJ Wolcott |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman
Following a comprehensive search, Assistant Vice President for Federal Engagement and Advocacy Glynda Becker-Fenter has been named Washington State University’s next vice president of external affairs and government relations. “We are fortunate to have Glynda’s leadership as we look to secure sustained support from our state and federal partners, and improve our engagement in the Puget Sound region,” said President Kirk Schulz.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
news.wsu.edu | Eric Hollenbeck |Carson College |RJ Wolcott |Hailey J James
PULLMAN, WA – Long-term care facilities that scheduled part-time Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) with more hours and more consistently with the same co-workers had reduced turnover, according to research led by Washington State University. The findings could help address staffing challenges that affect millions of patients at long-term care facilities nationwide.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
news.wsu.edu | Hailey J James |WSU Pullman |RJ Wolcott |Devin Rokyta
December 15, 2023 Longtime student advocate Romando A. Nash will serve as the new WSU Pullman vice chancellor for student affairs, effective April 1, 2024. Nash, who holds a law degree from Santa Clara University and has served students in a variety of roles at several universities, is replacing Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ellen Taylor, who is retiring.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
news.wsu.edu | Daniel Barker |Hailey J James |WSU Pullman |RJ Wolcott
A Washington State University project to enhance recruitment of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people into clinical trials has received $250,000 for a one-year pilot study. Amanda Boyd, PhD, associate professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and co-director of the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH), will lead the effort with colleagues Denise Dillard, PhD, Juliana Garcia, PhD, and Clemma Muller, PhD.
