Fall 2020
Hands-on help
Westport Winery and Ocean’s Daughter Distillery, owned and operated by Kim Roberts and her family, has been making and donating wine bottles filled with hand sanitizer. » More ...
Students
Fall 2020
Facing the challenge
Debbie McNeil (’77, ’82 MEd Elem. Ed.) is using her sewing skills to help Pullman Regional Hospital cope with a shortage of face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. » More ...
Fall 2020
Virtual vacations
Liven up your next Zoom call with a llama, thanks to an idea from Bolivia-based Derren Patterson » More ...
Fall 2020
The building of social empowerment
Tobias Jimenez spent his childhood in the type of settlement that he and his colleague Sean Anderson are now striving to improve.
The structures “have no electricity,” Jimenez says. “None have potable water. They’re not connected to the sewer. It’s not sanitary.”
Jimenez (’17 Arch., ’19 M.Arch.) was born in Pasco but moved to Colima, Mexico, with his parents as an infant. They raised him in an informal settlement— “like a favela,” he explains—on the city’s outskirts. “You’re focusing on surviving. You’re spending most of your time and energy trying to meet your basic needs. Living there is one of the reasons I decided to … » 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
Honorary doctorates
WSU awarded honorary doctoral degrees to emeritus professor of chemistry Ralph Yount and PACCAR chairman and philanthropist Mike Pigott. » More ...
Spring 2020
A new page for an old chapter
The new chapter house for Sigma Chi is the first at Washington State University in a generation. » More ...
Winter 2019
Laura Moore ’08
WSU equestrian coach and alumna takes home the mechanical bull riding trophy. » More ...