Winter 2024

Essential food

Essential food

Promoting healthy meals, expanding access to Indigenous foods, or making sure college students have enough to eat, WSU fills plates across the state.

The Breadlab

Healthier, better-tasting, whole-grain foods—it’s a movement.

For one creature’s genome, time flies

For answers to a really big query, it’s a rather small insect that holds the key.

Town of no tomorrow

Decades after a devastating flood in Vanport, Oregon, a complex racial and environmental legacy lingers.

Bringing back First Foods

Native Americans have been working to bring back traditional Indigenous foods, with support from WSU.

Good food for all

WSU Extension improves access to healthy, fresh, and nourishing foods.

All at the table

Many college students face food insecurity. WSU, through the 2024 Common Reading and programs, educates and assists.

What’s cookin’

WSU students living in residence halls can get pretty creative with their culinary skills.

Inchelium Red garlic

Revitalizing a delicious food at the Colville Reservation WSU Extension

Feeding Cougs and other efforts to reduce food insecurity on WSU campuses

Disco fever on the Palouse

Love it or hate it, it was quite the ’70s scene on the Palouse.

A look back at disco days on the Palouse

Views of Vanport

Video and gallery from the flooded city

“I vant to drink your blood…”

Vampires are real? Yes, but just really small.

Please don’t tread

Salmon die off in urban environments. A culprit’s been found.

A stormwater priority: Protecting coho salmon from tire chemicals

Commemorating 50 years of art

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU celebrates five decades as a cultural beacon.

Celebrating 50 years of WSU art

Exhibits and more at the museum

NEW old faces

Anne McCoy is the new WSU Athletics Director and Chris King steps in as announcer for Cougar sports.

Opportunity for the Cougs: A chat with WSU Athletic Director Anne McCoy

WSU honors sports legends

Four outstanding athletes and a legendary coach were inducted into the 2024 WSU Sports Hall of Fame.

A new voice for Coug sports

Talking with Chris King about announcing for WSU sports

Yellow onions

Dishes in almost every cuisine, it seems, start with yellow onions.

Planting, growing, and curing yellow onions

Yellow onion recipes

Protecting the onions

WSU research on onion cultivars

Full-circle fashion

WSU students and researchers stitch together sustainable textiles and clothes.

Talkback for Winter 2024

Messages from readers

From the president

WSU is a force for good, helping people all over the state.

Finally back on course

David Christenson joined the US Senior Open, after a life of playing golf and working at golf resorts.

Rewrites… camera… action

Anisa Ashabi adapted her 2022 young adult novel into a TV series.

From orchards to opportunity

Priscilla Meza studied human movement at WSU, with a goal of helping suffering farmworkers.

Class notes

Updates from Cougs all over

Tim Lamb

Waving the Cougar flag at competitive esports competition Evo

Darren Kiesler and Boone Helm

The WSU alum duo brings big door dreams to life.

Big doors, big dreams

Q&A with Darren Kiesler and Boone Helm

A Rustic Cabin: Finding a Sense of Place

By Dennis Dauble ’78 MS Biol.

Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot

By Rand Schenck, published by Basalt Books/WSU Press

Washington State’s Round Barns: Preserving a Vanishing Rural Heritage

By Helen and Tom Bartuska, published by Basalt Books/WSU Press

Briefly noted

Books by WSU alumni and faculty

Hannah Martian: Always writing

Their writer’s journey at WSU and beyond

In memoriam

WSU alumni, faculty, and staff who have passed away

Remembering Donald A. Dillman

WSU alum Ivan Weir shares memories of renowned WSU sociologist Donald Dillman.

Jason Porter Memorial Fund

The fund will honor the legacy of the WSU accounting instructor, mentor, and scholar.

A memorial for Cristy Cay Cook

Cougar Crew alumni, family, and friends remembered the rower 45 years after her untimely death.

Remembering Cristy Cay Cook

Friends and family reflect on the Cougar Crew athlete

Standing tall

WSU is home to perhaps the largest indoor rubber fig tree in the country.

Digital magazine

The Winter 2024 issue in PDF, webviewer, and print-on-demand