Summer 2015
Cougar pride on the road and into scholarships
Philip Behrend and Kayla Leinweber are two students helped by scholarships funded from the crimson WSU license plates.
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Summer 2015
Guillermo “Billy” Pimentel ’99—On the biodefense
Commander Billy Pimentel '99 PhD, a leader in biodefense for the U.S. Navy, brought in the Navy's mobile labs to help test for Ebola in Liberia.
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The Clark Family—Pets, vets, and architects
Jeff Clark and Michael Clark, along with their wives Sharon and Judi, combined an architecture firm and veterinary clinic in their Kirkland building.
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John Barleycorn lives
Barley, around since the dawn of agriculture, has fallen on hard times. Kevin Murphy and Mary Palmer Sullivan are trying to change that.
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At center STAGE
Student theater and improv comedy thrive at WSU thanks to alumni and faculty like Ben Gonzales and Ray Franz.
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A perfect vessel for wine research
The new Wine Science Center at WSU Tri-Cities covers the needs of viticulture and enology researchers, students, and industry, down to the smallest details.
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Posts for Summer 2015
Alumni write in letters remembering the post-World War II era of WSU and praising basketball Coach Ernie Kent.
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Do bugs have hearts and brains?
Dr. Universe answers the question, “Do bugs have hearts and brains?”
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Spring 2015
Eric Marks ’86—Marshalling the deputies
Eric Marks, and the 39 deputy marshals who worked for him, always got their man (or woman).
“We’ve had prisoners escape from local jails. We catch them all,” says Marks ’86 MA, former chief deputy marshal in the U.S. Marshals Service for eastern Washington. “We’re dogged and we don’t give up.”
As the region’s chief deputy marshal from 2002 to last December, Marks led the deputy marshals as they hunted fugitives and provided enforcement and protection for the federal courts.
He joins a long legacy of deputy marshals that includes legends like Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, and his brothers. In 1789 President … » More …
Spring 2015
A Nagasaki letter
Minutes before the B-29 bomber Bockscar dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, the crew of the accompanying B-29 released a canister holding testing equipment. A letter was Scotch-taped inside. The canister fell on the outskirts of the city and its contents withstood the second and, to date, last nuclear attack in a war.
The letter, addressed to “R. Sagane, Imperial University, Tokyo,” was an appeal from three Manhattan Project physicists to fellow physicist and former colleague Ryokichi Sagane. They asked Sagane to confirm the power and devastation of the nuclear attack to the Imperial Japanese government, and to urge Japan’s surrender.
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