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Fall 2025

Always educating: WSU Police Chief Dawn Daniels

Dawn Daniels was appointed as Washington State University’s police chief in August 2025. Daniels (’97 Soc. Stu.) shares her journey from WSU student to leading the university’s police department.

Over the years, she has served in various WSU roles including community policing officer, sergeant, and firearms instructor. With nearly three decades of service, she reflects on her career, her new role as police chief, the evolving role of campus policing, and her commitment to student success and community collaboration.

“I’ve always viewed policing as teaching—just in a different way,” Daniels says.

She talks with Washington State Magazine editor … » More …

Prosaurolophus maximus skeleton in Conner Museum
Fall 2025

A home for natural history

Specimen No. 4 is a small, translucent jellyfish collected near Keyport on the Olympic Peninsula. Not much else is known about the little marine animal, stored in a glass jar labeled with cursive handwriting, other than the date it was collected: July 30, 1899.

“I thought it was so gorgeous,” says Jessica Tir (’23 MS Biol.) who recently retrieved the long-lost specimen, part of an old marine collection.

Bits and pieces, scattered across Heald, Eastlick, and Abelson halls, were found during preparations for the upcoming demolition of Heald Hall, slated for tear-down during the 2025-2027 biennium. The jellyfish was in the Eastlick batch.

“Someone … » More …

Fall 2025

Fortnightly memories

Hear from members of the Pullman Fortnightly Club in their own words. These memories are excerpted from “Reminisces of Members,” compiled for the 110th anniversary dinner in 2003, unless otherwise noted.

Hattie Bryan

Joined in 1893

From her speech titled “On the History of the Founding of the Fortnightly Club,” delivered November 23, 1908, for the club’s 15th anniversary

“I remember the day we landed in the village at the old Northern Pacific station … Raining! I think I never saw it rain harder, and mud! How the struggling horses ever managed to get us through it, up to our rental home, on ‘Sunnyside’ … … » More …