Review of "Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943," by Robert Bauman and Robert Franklin and published by WSU Press in 2018. » More ...
Video games and gaming technology offer good, bad, and ugly aspects: potential for innovative education, but often racist and misogynistic stereotypes in some games. Washington State University faculty research all those dimensions. » More ...
Before automobiles even swarmed over the roads and streets, there was a need to control traffic to avoid accidents and keep vehicles moving smoothly.
The current systems have developed over more than a century, and they’re poised to change once again as vehicles become more connected and traffic control moves toward AI and complex computer-driven systems.
A signal history
December 10, 1868 — The first gas-lit traffic lights were installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London. Proposed by British railway engineer J.P. Knight to control the traffic of horse carriages, gas lights were manually controlled by a police officer using semaphore arms. … » More …
Over the last century, urban skies have grown increasingly clouded with light pollution. The excess light disrupts circadian rhythms, poses safety and health risks, wastes energy, and exacts a sad aesthetic toll as well. » More ...
Washington State University alumna Annita Lucchesi produced a groundbreaking report that was published by the Urban Indian Health Institute that revealed the astonishing and horrifying numbers of missing and unsolved murders of indigenous women across North America. » More ...
Veterinarian, author, and counselor Robert Slack helps health-care workers who struggle with substance use disorders, mental health problems, or both. » More ...
Histories of migration and struggle come alive in "Hardship to Homeland: Pacific Northwest Volga Germans" by Richard D. Scheuerman and Clifford E. Trafzer. » More ...