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Winter 2005

Brewing Up Business

The Small Business Development Center celebrates 25 years of success.

Mark Burr and his business partners, Nina Law and Skip Madsen, dreamed of owning their own beer brewing business. After a visit to Port Townsend a few years ago, the trio began to investigate buying the historic Town Tavern and turning it into the Water Street Brewing and Ale House. During the course of his research, Burr discovered the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), hosted by Washington State University, and made an appointment with Kathleen Purdy, business development specialist with the Olympic Peninsula Regional Center of the SBDC.

The SBDC is designed to help small … » More …

Winter 2005

Pop Art in Pullman

This fall, Washington State University’s Museum of Art is showing more than 70 works by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. Entitled Roy Lichtenstein Prints 1956-97, the exhibit offers a comprehensive record of the artist’s evolution. Lichtenstein explored commercial and comic book images and painted them in immense scale, utilizing bright colors, simple lines, and the dot patterns associated with newsprint reproduction. Although his work was controversial in the 1960s, it changed the way America looked at and thought about art.

The exhibit, from the private collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer of Portland, Oregon, continues in Pullman through December 16 before moving to the Henry Art Gallery … » More …

Winter 2005

Rewriting the Book on Photosynthesis

Thanks to David Kramer and his research group, plant physiologists can now explore what really goes on inside living leaves. » More ...

Winter 2005

Hanging on by a whisker

What geology hath put asunder, biologists are are trying to join back together. So far it's working, although the effort requires a different measure of success than what's usually appled. » More ...

Winter 2005

It’s Only a Model

Modelers don't always expect their models to be "right." But they do expect them to help explain our world. » More ...

Winter 2005

Not Your Normal Truffle

Head Cowgirl Marilyn Lysohir followed her muse West in search of Art and Chocolate. » More ...

Spring 2004

Mount St. Helens: The perfect laboratory

It is impossible to accept the immensity of Mount St. Helens and the effect of its catastrophic 1980 eruption unless you are able to stand beneath the enormous crater on the pumice plain and listen to John Bishop talk about lupines. » More ...

Winter 2005

Living with Art

What happens when enjoyment becomes passion.

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Winter 2005

Washington’s wine crush

From Whidbey Island to Woodinville to Walla Walla, Washington's wine industry is coming of age. » More ...

Fall 2005

Cougars abroad

With more and more Europeans on the roster of NBA teams, Americans like Jan-Michael Thomas ’01 have to look outside the United States if they want to continue their hoop careers.

As a Cougar basketball player, Jan-Michael Thomas (’01 Bus. Mgt.) was one of the top long-range shooters in the country. Now he’s a lot farther than a three-point shot from his American roots.

Thomas spent this past basketball season playing for a pro team in Szolnok, Hungary, about an hour southeast of the capital, Budapest.

“It is a great country, in terms of basketball, for someone who wants to get the opportunity to play,” … » More …