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Spring 2014
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Spring 2014
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Larry Clark
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Mountains and rivers and prairies without end
Feature
A dose of reason
Feature
Pediatric specialists advocate for vaccines
A true story fraught with peril
Feature
Buried in hundreds of layers of rock are tales of fire, brimstone, destruction, and fragility.
An inquiring mind
Feature
Pediatrician Ken Alexander’s curiosity led to study of infectious diseases
On the road
Essay
Washington’s Poet Laureate brings poetry to, and discovers it in, each of the state’s 39 counties.
First Words for Spring 2014
First Words
On his retirement, founding editor Tim Steury reflects on the vision of the magazine, its past, and its future.
Washington state road trips
Web Extra
Music to a closed country
Panorama
A WSU associate professor of music traveled to Burma to bring reed instruments to the previously isolated nation.
A wider canvas
Panorama
Major plans for a new WSU Museum of Art could bring an innovative building to the center of campus.
Sorting debitage from rubble
Panorama
Archaeologist Bill Andrefsky identifies stone tools that pushed back the estimated arrival of humans in the western hemisphere.
Google ranking molecules
Panorama
Aurora Clark adapted Google's PageRank algorithm to better understand the network of molecules.
What about buckwheat?
In Season
Washington leads the nation in producing buckwheat, the nutritious and nutty-tasting main ingredient of
soba
.
Recipe: Sonoko Sakai’s Nihachi soba noodles
Web Extra
Predictive software helps communication
Panorama
Eye-tracking technology could help people with ALS, like former Coug and New Orleans Saint Steve Gleason.
The calculus of caring and cooperation
Panorama
Craig Parks started wondering how people decide to support some charities, but pass on and even actively oppose others.
Flood Basalts and Glacier Floods
Web Extra
Roadside Geology of Parts of Walla Walla, Franklin, and Columbia Counties, Washington
Video: WSU chemist applies Google software to webs of the molecular world
Web Extra
After the games
Sports
Former Cougar football player Derek Sparks made a special effort to reconnect with WSU athletes.
Backyard boarders
Panorama
Architecture students worked on backyard cottages as transitional housing for the homeless.
Posts for Spring 2014
Posts
Letters from WSU alumni about former President Glenn Terrell, Gabriel Fielding, apples, and more.
Everyone could use a lift
Last Words
WSU is notorious for its hills. But shortcuts all over campus can ease the strain on the legs.
Nancy Gillett ’78—The business of science
Tracking
A pathologist and business executive who took some major leaps in her life
Video: Campus shortcuts
Web Extra
A quick tour of a couple of shortcuts to get up the legendary hills of WSU
Robert Franklin ’75, ’76, ’79—A new leash on life
Tracking
A vet advocates for animal welfare for three decades
Pavlo Rudenko ’09—As fast as he can go
Tracking
The engineer made an advanced lubricant to reduce friction on metal
Alumni recognized for contributions to agriculture
WSU Alumni Association News
Masami Takeuchi and Gail L. Cramer honored for their work
A Guide to TriboTeX Nano-based Lubricant
Web Extra
Soldiers of Paint
New Media
Doug Gritzmacher ’98 and Michael DeChant Jr.
Civility and Democracy in America: A Reasonable Understanding
New Media
Cornell W. Clayton and Richard Elgar
A Yankee on Puget Sound
New Media
Karen L. Johnson ’78 and Dennis M. Larsen ’68
New & noteworthy
New Media
Other books and media from WSU faculty and alumni