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3 weeks ago | 
news.wsu.edu | RJ Wolcott |Devin Rokyta |Tina Hilding |Voiland College
June 4, 2025 By RJ Wolcott, WSU News & Media Relations PULLMAN, Wash. – Members of the Washington State University Board of Regents will host a virtual special meeting June 5. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and will be livestreamed. The meeting will also be recorded and available for viewing via the WSU System YouTube page. Following public comment, regents will hear two information items before diving into more than a dozen action items.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Aniela Shauck |Voiland College |Josh Babcock |Shawn Vestal
Students at the 95th annual Washington Future Farmers of America State Convention and Expo held earlier this month on the Washington State University campus learned about computer science, robotics, and technological tools shaping the future of farming.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Christina Mancebo |Shawn Vestal
May 20, 2025 By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Ananth Kalyanaraman Ananth Kalyanaraman has been named director of the WSU’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Kalyanaraman has served as interim director of the school for the past year. He is a professor and Boeing Centennial Chair in computer science and holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Tina Hilding |Voiland College
A 3D printer donated by an alumnus to the Orthopedic Department at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine is helping small-animal surgeons give more precise care to patients requiring orthopedic and other surgical procedures. A new 3D printer donated to the Washington State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital is helping to modernize how veterinarians approach complex orthopedic surgeries.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Shawn Vestal |Steve Nakata |Tina Hilding |Voiland College
May 7, 2025 By Shawn Vestal, WSU News & Media Relations Washington State University researchers are using AI technology to do everything from improving science education to scoring wildfire risk — and six such initiatives got a boost from a Microsoft program celebrating the company’s 50th birthday. The company distributed $5 million to 20 projects by universities, nonprofits and other organizations across the state through its AI for Good Lab.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott |Tina Hilding |Voiland College
Kelly Kreps has spent decades raising cattle on his family’s ranch in White Salmon, Washington, and thanks to a partnership with Washington State University, it has also become a training ground for the next generation of veterinarians committed to supporting ranching communities.
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1 month ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Shawn Vestal |Tina Hilding |Voiland College |RJ Wolcott
Just in time for tick season, new research is shining a light on how animals develop resistance to tick bites, which points toward the possibility of developing more effective vaccines against the tiny, disease-carrying bloodsuckers. In a study of “acquired tick resistance” among deer mice, rabbits and cattle, researchers at Washington State University found that once host animals were exposed to ticks, they developed resistance to bites that dramatically shrank the tick population going forward.
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2 months ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Devin Rokyta |RJ Wolcott
A group of bioengineering students have been developing a portable sensor that aims to quickly detect harmful pathogens in air or water as part of their capstone design project for the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering. They will give a presentation on their sensor April 14 in Wegner Hall on the Washington State University Pullman campus.
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2 months ago | 
news.wsu.edu | RJ Wolcott |Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Devin Rokyta
SPOKANE, Wash. – Members of the Washington State University Board of Regents will host a series of meetings on the Spokane campus April 17-18. All of the board’s upcoming meetings will take place inside the Spokane Academic Center, with the public portions streamed live online. Thursday’s meetings kick off with breakfast at 8 a.m., followed by an executive session at 8:45 a.m. At the conclusion of the executive session, the Finance and Administration Committee will meet.
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2 months ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Angela Sams |Devin Rokyta |Tina Hilding |Voiland College
PROSSER, Wash. — A new tool with four furry legs and an ultra-sensitive nose may soon offer the tree fruit industry a more reliable way to quickly detect Little Cherry Disease (LCD). As part of a two-year project, Washington State University researchers are working with a pair of specially trained dogs and their handler to conduct field trials with infected cherry trees.
