Summer 2019

by Larry Clark

Finding home

A point of reference

How can such an isolated place seem so connected to everything? A recent visit points out why.

How may we help you?

The changing role of public libraries

Medicine that lands on all fours

Pets and people who are homeless get help from WSU nurses and veterinarians together.

Dark skies

Night light that’s not bright

Life with elephants

At Pachyderm Plaza, elephants delight children and families. They also have been an inspiration to our Smithsonian researchers.

A better sense of health monitoring

A better way to monitor diabetes

Doc and Packy

A WSU alumnus pioneered elephant care (from the archives).

Gallery: Meyer’s Point

Olympos to Olympia

Her time studying history has allowed her to tackle some of the state’s biggest IT projects.

Good tech

Since technology has the ability to be used for good and for not good, these tech leaders think about it very carefully.

WSU@Prosser

WSU at Prosser started with a flood of activity.

Prosser stories

Spinach

“’Cause I eats me spinach”

Spinach recipes

Digital magazine

The Summer 2019 issue in webviewer, fullscreen and tablet PDF, and print-on-demand formats

TalkBack for Summer 2019

Letters from alumni on Coach John Chaplin and the WSU Fight Song

Hearing the whispers

Annita Lucchesi (’16 MA Amer. Studies) revealed the astonishing numbers of missing and unsolved murders of indigenous women across North America.

Tails of comfort

Veterinarian Robert Slack helps health-care workers who struggle with substance use disorders, mental health problems, or both.

Conserving Hanford’s visual history

Architect Harley Cowan chronicles the Hanford Site in photographs.

Gallery: Images of Hanford

2019 Regents’ award

Chemical engineering graduate Thomas Graedel and colleagues pioneered sustainability research with the new field of industrial ecology.

Class notes

Updates from Cougs all over

Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans

By Richard D. Scheuerman ’72 History and Clifford E. Trafzer

Baseball in a Grain of Sand: Seeing the Game through a Small Town Season

The narrative of baseball through a single American Legion season

Briefly noted

Books by WSU alumni, faculty, and the WSU Press

Making history

WSU Alumni Association News

The WSU Alumni Association aims high for 40,000 members by 2020.

In memoriam

WSU alumni, faculty, and staff who have passed away

Venn Pirouettes

Mathematics and art meet in Michael Schultheis exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU in Pullman.

WSU Tri-Cities students explore homelessness at Tri-City Union Gospel Mission

Sheet music for WSU Fight Song