Spring 2023
From Refugee to Consul: An American Adventure
Review of a memoir by Helen Szablya » More ...
Languages
Winter 2022
Jessica Clutter
Peace Corps is sending volunteers out now that the pandemic is easing. » More ...
Fall 2019
Hearts in motion
Life-changing surgeries save lives in Guatemala, with assistance from Washington State University students and faculty. » More ...
Fall 2016
Pardon My French: How a Grumpy American Fell in Love with France
Allen Johnson ’85 PhD
Yucca Publishing: 2015
Funny, sexy, smart. If I only had three words in which to tell you about the pleasures of Allen Johnson’s Pardon My French, those’d be the ones.
Johnson spent a year in France with his wife, Nita, and Pardon My French relates their adventures in short vignettes arranged thematically.
One of the themes is that the French are not like us: They have their own special … » More …
Fall 2015
Briefly noted
New media by WSU alumni and faculty noted in the Fall 2015 issue. » More ...
Fall 2015
The unexpected presence of Mario Vargas Llosa
A novelist and Nobel laureate at WSU in the late 1960s. » More ...
Fall 2012
The China Connection
Business professor Jerman Rose first went to China in 1995 as part of a Washington State University hospitality program to train hotel managers in the Shangri La Hotel Group. Recognizing the growing opportunity for business students from both China and the United States, he decided to learn Chinese and look for an academic partner for WSU’s international business program.
By 1998 he had helped establish a relationship with Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Almost 15 years later, says Rose, the college has established a WSU Center at SWUFE and facilitated many undergraduate, graduate, and faculty exchanges.
For Rose, the … » More …