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1 week ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Steve Nakata |RJ Wolcott |Devin Rokyta |Josh Babcock
The Division of Student Affairs at Washington State University Pullman has launched a bold new strategic plan — its first in more than two decades — marking a milestone in how it serves, supports, and challenges students. The strategic plan, unveiled during a campus-wide event on April 15, 2025, is the result of nearly a year of deep engagement across the division.
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1 week ago | 
news.wsu.edu | RJ Wolcott |Steve Nakata |Devin Rokyta |Josh Babcock
Jennifer Henrichsen, who studies how shifting media landscapes and emerging technologies affect journalism and democracy, is Washington State University’s first faculty member selected to the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program.
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1 week ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |Addy Hatch |Josh Babcock |Tina Hilding
PULLMAN, Wash. — Why bats can harbor viruses like hantavirus and coronavirus – pathogens that are highly dangerous to humans – without becoming ill themselves has long puzzled scientists, yet the answer may be key to preventing outbreaks and fighting the diseases.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Josh Babcock |Addy Hatch |Steve Nakata |Devin Rokyta
Trenna Pannier is just weeks from beginning her veterinary career and, thanks to surgery and round-the-clock care at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Shirley, her once gravely ill horse, is going with her. “We went back and forth on it – whether to continue or to humanely euthanize. I didn’t want her to suffer but we also wanted to give her a fighting chance.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Addy Hatch |Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Josh Babcock
Sometime this year a manufacturing plant in India will begin producing corrugated bamboo panels developed at Washington State University. The panels are durable, affordable, and sustainable, but best of all for people living in very hot climates, they reduce indoor temperatures by 7 degrees compared with typical metal or concrete roofing materials.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Addy Hatch |Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Josh Babcock
March 4, 2025 By Communications staff, Washington State University Washington State University professors Jon Oatley and Carolyn Ross have been promoted to the rank of Regents Professor and are among the 33 faculty members to receive tenure this year as well as 89 more to receive promotions.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Addy Hatch |Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Josh Babcock
It was the late 1930s when teenager Luana (Boner) Sever decided she wanted to study botany at Washington State College. The problem: she lived on the south side of Chicago and didn’t have much money. But she had plenty of gumption. Sever got on her bicycle and rode 2,000 miles from Chicago to Pullman to start school. “She packed up what she could and started off on the bike from Chicago,” said Pat Helland, Sever’s daughter. “If she ran out of money she would stop in a town and do some odd jobs.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Josh Babcock
When Brenda Adams noticed her Doberman, Calvin, limping, she naturally assumed he had something stuck in his paw. The limp, however, was a sign of something far more serious. Calvin, then 8 years old, had osteosarcoma, a deadly and aggressive bone cancer in his left shoulder. The standard treatment would have been amputating his entire leg, but due to a prior hip injury, that was not an ideal option for Calvin.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Josh Babcock
Each spring, clocks in most of the United States leap forward an hour for summer daylight saving time, renewing debate over whether the switch should be abandoned in favor of a consistent year-round schedule. The impacts of ending the annual time change, which takes place this year early on the morning of Sunday, March 9, could be complicated, especially in eastern Washington, says sleep scientist Hans Van Dongen, a WSU Elson S.
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1 month ago | 
bigcountrynewsconnection.com | Josh Babcock
MOSCOW, ID - A puppy rescued from a house fire last week is back with its family and expected to make a full recovery after days fighting to live on a ventilator at Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
