Fall 2015
Tomatoes
A fruit of myths and legends, and a treat for many gardeners. » More ...
Larry Clark ’94
Fall 2015
What to do with toxic soil?
Fukushima soil remediation proves promising. » More ...
Fall 2015
In the USFS hot seat
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell '76 on his WSU education and managing 0wildfires in a warmer climate. » More ...
Fall 2015
First Words
The loss of a president who transformed the University, and a transformation of the magazine. » More ...
Summer 2015
The Clark Family—Pets, vets, and architects
Jeff Clark and Michael Clark, along with their wives Sharon and Judi, combined an architecture firm and veterinary clinic in their Kirkland building.
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Eat like an athlete
Fuel up and you can dominate is the mantra of sports nutrition at WSU.
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The right work
Amateur photographer Vivian Maier represents the value of work, as defined by herself, a theme throughout the summer 2015 issue.
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In the Path of Destruction: Eyewitness Chronicles of Mount St. Helens
Richard Waitt
WSU Press, 2014
Like the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, the personal stories of campers, loggers, airline pilots, Forest Service workers, and geologists came pouring out before, during, and after the cataclysm. One of those geologists, Richard Waitt, gathered anecdotes and recollections of the volcanic eruption over the course of three decades, now compiled in this tome.
Waitt blends his own scientific expertise as a researcher who had been on the mountain since its early rumblings with hundreds of eyewitness … » More …
Spring 2015
Eric Marks ’86—Marshalling the deputies
Eric Marks, and the 39 deputy marshals who worked for him, always got their man (or woman).
“We’ve had prisoners escape from local jails. We catch them all,” says Marks ’86 MA, former chief deputy marshal in the U.S. Marshals Service for eastern Washington. “We’re dogged and we don’t give up.”
As the region’s chief deputy marshal from 2002 to last December, Marks led the deputy marshals as they hunted fugitives and provided enforcement and protection for the federal courts.
He joins a long legacy of deputy marshals that includes legends like Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, and his brothers. In 1789 President … » More …
Spring 2015
A Nagasaki letter
Minutes before the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, the crew of the accompanying B-29 released a canister holding testing equipment. A letter was Scotch-taped inside. The canister fell on the outskirts of the city and its contents withstood the second and, to date, last nuclear attack in a war.
The letter, addressed to “R. Sagane, Imperial University, Tokyo,” was an appeal from three Manhattan Project physicists to fellow physicist and former colleague Ryokichi Sagane. They asked Sagane to confirm the power and devastation of the nuclear attack to the Imperial Japanese government, and to urge Japan’s surrender.
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