Spring 2013

by Larry Clark

The Apple Meets Cougar Gold

Passing the Smell Test

Throughout the living world, the nose leads the way.

Patrick Rothfuss ’02—World Builder

Life’s a fantasy for best-selling author Patrick Rothfuss. He invites us into his worlds, one real and one of his own invention.

Taste, an Accounting in Three Scenes

I’d be lying if I claimed not to prefer the golf swings of Bobby Jones or Sam Snead to that of Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey.

Believe it or not

When a public policy issue becomes politicized, people with strong partisan leanings sometimes have a hard time believing facts.

Heirloom apples in Washington state

The cheddar cheese lexicon

Looking for the words to describe cheese

The forgotten forest

Early successional forests, the stage following a major disturbance such as fire, windstorm, or harvest, has a valuable ecological role.

Sick stocks

Exploring the impact of influenza on the U.S. stock market

Tribble Trouble

A science fiction exploration with Paul Brians

Reading in the Genres

Tiny cracks, big effect

A new way to hold uranium under Hanford can slow its release into the soil.

Replays for all

3D-4U technology, developed by a WSU team puts replay and different views into the hands of the audience.

A Nate Taylor (’02 Fine Arts) sampler

Video: 3D-4U Solutions introduces replays at your fingertips

Spinach is suspect: A pathological mystery

Sleuthing out why spinach has been suffering from wilt

Video: Shopping with Oranges—Simple scents in retail

Tastes like Beethoven

The 1909 National Apple Show in Spokane heralded the rise of Washington as a top apple-producing state.

Posts for Spring 2013

Letters, photographs, and vignettes from WSU alumni, plus a video on coping with pet loss.

The Essential Egg

More than a century ago, Washington State College's chicken farming course helped start up an egg industry.

Down Under to Pullman

WSU men's basketball team has had a number of outstanding players from Australia in the last few years.

One happy ending

The WSU Cougars football team pulled off the biggest comeback in Apple Cup history in 2012.

Fruitful history

Apple production was originally spread across eastern Washington, including the Lewiston-Clarkston valley.

Training for good eggs: Winter School at Puyallup

A history of chicken-rearing

Asif Chaudhry ’88—The ambassador

The former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova has had quite a journey serving the country in the Foreign Service.

George R. “Bob” Pettit ’52—A profile in persistence

The prominent cancer researcher and chemist faced an uphill climb in his quest for cancer-fighting compounds.

Matthew Heatherly ’12—Serving and learning

Heatherly decided to delay his college education in order to enlist and serve his country in the Army.

John Bryant ’88—Here for the beer

Bryant brought his beer business savvy to Spokane’s No-Li Brewhouse.

The Rebrand: No-Li Brewhouse

Treasure, Treason and the Tower: El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh

by Paul Sellin '52

Montana Before History: 11,000 Years of Hunter-Gatherers in the Rockies and Plains

by Douglas H. MacDonald '94

Academic Motherhood: How Faculty Manage Work and Family

by Kelly Ward and Lisa Wolf-Wendel

That One Spooky Night

Illustrated by David Huyck

Steadfast Cougar Spirit

WSU Alumni Association News

Hundreds of WSU graduates from 1953 and 1963 will gather for their Golden and Diamond reunions.

Digital magazine

The Spring 2013 issue in fullscreen and tablet PDF formats.

Video: A Gentle Goodbye

Ways to cope with pet loss