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Nov 1, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Addy Hatch |Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Steve Nakata
Indigenous Peoples around the world are taking control of their data, a movement whose leaders include a Washington State University faculty member. We’re all more aware of the amount of data collected about us, but Indigenous Data Sovereignty means more than that, said Cheryl Ellenwood, an assistant professor in WSU’s School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and a member of the Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) nation and Diné (Navajo).
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Steve Nakata |Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Isaac Donovan
The Health Education Program on the Washington State University Pullman campus is adding individualized training to its repertoire and strengthening support for student staff as the demand for its services continues to grow. The Health Education Program features 20 student peer health educators (PHEs) who provide training and facilitate dialogue on health topics often deemed stigmatized but relevant to student lives — interpersonal violence, substance use, and mental health.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Steve Nakata |Isaac Donovan
The College of Education at Washington State University Tri-Cities was recently awarded a $3.1 million grant for a new multilingual educator project.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | HRS Benefits |Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Isaac Donovan
CDHPs have lower monthly premiums, offset by a higher deductible and out-of-pocket max. These plans are paired with a HSA, which WSU contributes $58.34/for EE only or $116.67/family monthly. You may make additional HSA contributions pre-tax through payroll deduction. The HSA max contribution limit for 2025 is $4,300/EE only or $8,550/families. This includes both ER and EE contributions, as well as the $125 SmartHealth Incentive if earned. EEs ages 55 or older may contribute an additional $1000/year.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Isaac Donovan |WSU College |Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities
On Nov. 3- 8, the WSU College of Education’s sport management program is hosting Jørgen Kjær, a Danish senior professor in the sports science department at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Kjær is a practitioner and scholar in coaching education and will share his experience and work, providing sport management students and faculty an international perspective in the development of effective sport coaches.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Isaac Donovan |WSU College
The Washington State University Tri-Cities-based Cougar Tracks program is helping a local organization provide its female employees with the skills they will need to succeed in the workforce. Cougar Tracks offers programs that bridge gaps between industry needs and workforce training, providing practical solutions that address the unique challenges faced by local industry, minorities, and underrepresented communities.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Scott Weybright |Isaac Donovan |WSU College |Lacey Desserault
Cougar Gold cheese and ice cream from Ferdinand’s Ice Cream Shoppe rely on one thing above all others: milk. Most of that milk comes from WSU’s Knott Dairy Center, where roughly 160 lactating cows are milked every day. That dairy farm was built over 60 years ago and the infrastructure is pushing its serviceable life. Thanks to support from the Washington State Legislature, part of the dairy is being modernized, benefiting students, employees, cheese fans, and the cows themselves.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities |Isaac Donovan |WSU College
October 31, 2024 By Communications staff, Washington State University State and local officials, along with WSU students and administrators, were on hand Wednesday, Oct. 30, to dedicate the opening of new passing lanes along a stretch of state Highway 26 heavily used by students and others traveling between Pullman and Puget Sound (composite featuring images by Matt Haugen, WSU Social Media and WSDOT).
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May 22, 2024 | 
tudecidesmedia.com | Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities
By Lacey Desserault, WSU Tri-Cities A new cross-campus course between Washington State University Pullman and WSU Tri-Cities is enabling history and architecture graduate students to bring rarely told stories about east Pasco’s racial history to life. The spring 2024 course, Issues in Architecture (Architecture 542), examines infrastructural racism by studying how the built environment shapes communities in relationship with discrimination.
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May 7, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Chantell Cosner |WSU Spokane |Lacey Desserault |WSU Tri-Cities
WSU Spokane has launched the planning process for the campus’s newest building, the Team Health Education Building. Serving as a state-of-the-art health care simulation facility, the building will be designed to prepare the campus’s 1,200 health science students using a technology-forward, team-based curriculum. The new facility will provide students in the Elson S.
