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Spring 2019
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Spring 2019
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Larry Clark
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The world inside and out
First Words
Soil Man
Feature
R. James Cook and soil health
Medical Big Data
Feature
Big data is sending everyone back to school—and that’s a good thing for our healthcare industry.
Arctic chronicles
Essay
Chronicling the Arctic’s loss and its future with science—and art.
Inside outside
Up Front
Reconnecting our children to the natural world
Who goes there?
Up Front
The National Park Service solved the unsolvable with just a phone call.
No holds barred education
Up Front
He did not want the rest of his life to be like his past. Enter education.
Gallery: Arctic journey
Web Extra
Video: Archiving Ice
Web Extra
What’s gone viral?
A Mixed Ag
Grapevines aren’t supposed to turn colors in the fall…that’s leafroll virus and WSU researchers are working to stop it.
Giving rust a rest
A Mixed Ag
WSU researchers deliver the first line of defense in the high-stakes battle against stripe rust—the number one threat to wheat.
Stopping the blighters
A Mixed Ag
Fire blight can wipe out whole apple orchards in a season, spurring on education and a race to find resistant trees.
Soil health research at WSU
Web Extra
“Fight, fight, fight...” still flying high
Up Front
“Come in Houston. And cue the Cougar fight song.”
WSU Fight Song in space and time
Web Extra
Recordings from the space shuttle, 1934, and the movie Volunteers
Arts and science
Up Front
It’s up to storytellers, not machines, to decide how to act on data.
Ol’ Crimson flies over Pullman
Sidelines
The legendary WSU Cougar flag comes home as College GameDay arrives at the Pullman campus.
Athlete, coach, winner
Sidelines
Legendary track coach and alumnus John Chaplin led the most successful athletics program in school history.
Chaplin’s athletes
Web Extra
Some of the stars from John Chaplin’s years as WSU track and field coach
French fries
In Season
Golden, crispy, delicious French fries face the taste test at WSU
Recipes: French fry sauces
Web Extra
Genomics fills a gap for adoptees
Web Extra
Shaking hands with the past
Alumnipedia
For artist Nathan Orosco, the process of making art is an art in itself.
Power of words
Alumnipedia
Sandy Williams delivers a voice to the African-American community in Spokane through Black Lens.
Taking the bull
not
by the horns
Alumnipedia
Professional rodeo clown JJ Harrison defuses Brahma bulls in the arena, and disarms preteen bullies in the classroom.
Making the difference
Alumnipedia
Kerry Clark took an improbable path to teaching, counseling, and coaching at Saint George’s School in Spokane.
Ron Shurer ’01
Alumnipedia
The Medal of Honor and Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award for a soldier and hero
Digital magazine
The Spring 2019 issue in webviewer, full-screen and tablet PDF, and print-on-demand formats
The Wine Club for Cougs
WSU Alumni Association News
The Wine-By-Cougars Wine Club over the last 12 years has raised the profile of Cougs in the wine industry and engaged alumni.
Class notes
Alumnipedia
Updates from Cougs all over
In memoriam
Alumnipedia
WSU alumni, faculty, and staff who have passed away
TalkBack for Spring 2019
Talkback
Letters from alumni on Stephenson reunions and campus changes for women in the 1960s
What’s app?
Last Words
Innovative smartphone apps created by health-care professionals and WSU alumni
Stark Mad Abolitionists
New Media
By Robert K. Sutton ’84 PhD
Monumental Seattle: The Stories behind the City’s Statues, Memorials, and Markers
New Media
By Robert Spalding, WSU Press
Bound
New Media
By Vijaya Bodach ’87, ’95 Biochem.
Spike, Benny, and Boone
New Media
By Allen Johnson ’85 PhD
Briefly noted
New Media
Books by WSU alumni, faculty, and the WSU Press
Health care innovations from WSU
Web Extra