Fall 2020
Gardens of refuge
Growing vegetables and other plants offer refuge from stress while helping promote mental and physical well-being. » More ...
Resources and Offices
Fall 2020
Setting the tone
Sound and art installation Ambiente432 welcomes visitors to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at WSU. » More ...
Fall 2020
A writer in chief
Bill Gardner, chief of WSU Police, put his English degree to work as a writer. » More ...
Summer 2020
Talkback for Summer 2020
A woman’s place
When I started my career at WSU in the fall of 1969, I knew I wanted to be a biologist. My all-girl high school had an excellent science program. I spent the summer of ’69 working at the WSU Extension Center in Puyallup raising house flies and counting bark beetles in entomology.
My assigned advisor was in the zoology department. Apparently, he was pretty famous. His first question to me was, “Are you going into this professionally, or do you plan to get married?” Although I was a pretty timid 18-year-old, I stared at him and … » More …
Summer 2020
Going to BAT in rural Washington
The Broadband Action Team through WSU Extension supports health care, education, businesses, and jobs in rural areas. » More ...
Summer 2020
When the sky fell
Forty years ago, on a fateful day in May, a volcanic eruption—unprecedented in modern times—etched itself on the memories of Washingtonians from Vancouver to Pullman. » More ...
Summer 2020
“Living with the Volcano”
From the eruption of Mount St. Helens emerged art. » More ...
Summer 2020
To dream the impossible dream
In an unstable economy, Washington residents struggle to find affordable housing. » More ...
Summer 2020
Fun facts and stories from the campuses
Looking at three decades of Washington State University at Vancouver, Tri-Cities, and Spokane yielded some pretty interesting facts about the campuses.
Read three stories from the three campuses.
WSU Vancouver
It’s… Alive!
In 1993, WSU Vancouver was.one of the first institutions in the country to use interactive electronic classrooms (classes simulcast via video).
Home, Sweet Recreation Home
The sole remnant of the campus’s previous life as a family-run dairy farm is a small brick farmhouse, known today as the Annex, home to the Recreation Program.
Doctors in the House
Fall 2019 is the first time WSU medical students … » More …
Summer 2020
“It was raining ash”
The angry-looking ash cloud billowing above Mount St. Helens is one of the most iconic images in state history.
And it is etched in our collective memory.
Those living in the state of Washington at the time of the May 18, 1980, eruption all have a where-were-you-when-it-blew moment. Here are some of them.
Don Swanson
Volcanologist Don Swanson (’60 Geology) agreed to man the mountain’s forward observation post for a few days to replace a geologist who needed to travel out of town. But Swanson himself needed a replacement for a night—that night.
David A. Johnston, a younger U.S. Geological Survey colleague, agreed … » More …