Fall 2024
Celebrating joy and growth
Mariachi at Washington State University creates a vibrant tapestry of community, heritage, and resilience. » More ...
Latinos
Spring 2023
Una bienvenida a la WSU
A Washington State University welcome en Español » More ...
Fall 2022
La Alianza de WSU
The WSU Chicanx/Latinx alumni chapter held its first weekend gala in spring 2022. » More ...
Fall 2021
Talk the walk
Respected broadcast journalist Enrique Cerna takes on a new challenge: a podcast covering race and America. » More ...
Fall 2021
Enrique Cerna: Outtakes
Enrique Cerna (’75 Comm.), longtime broadcast journalist and now podcaster, reflects on his personal history, career, race, and podcasting.
Read more about Cerna’s latest podcast, Chino y Chicano.
Family history
“My grandfather on my dad’s side had to flee Mexico. He was a landowner during the revolution. My grandmother had twenty kids. Fifteen made it to adulthood. My father went back to Mexico, and that’s where he met my mom. I’m the youngest of five that lived. We lost one sister who died in Mexico at a year old.”
Reunions
“We have a family reunion the second Saturday of every July. We’ve … » More …
Winter 2020
The faces of small farms
Despite the hurdles, a new crop of Washington small farmers are finding their way into the field. » More ...
Spring 2019
Shaking hands with the past
Artist and Washington State University alumnus Nathan Orosco of Gresham, Oregon, says the process of making art is an art in itself. From sculpting clays to melting bronze, “you’re collaborating with raw materials," to speak of his social, political, and cultural “anxieties,” as he calls them. » More ...
Winter 2017
Briefly noted
Untold Stories: Forty Years of Field Research on Root Diseases of Wheat
By R. James Cook
American Phytopathological Society Press: 2017
Throughout the compelling stories and personal experiences shared by Jim Cook, a retired research plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and emeritus professor of plant pathology at Washington State University, readers can find practical crop management techniques and other beneficial information that can be used in the field and the lab. Cook also chronicles many of his insightful experiences—and imparts his philosophy, wisdom, and practical guidance.
Living on the Edge: Adventures of a Hunter
By Shannon L. … » More …
Fall 2009
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing…”
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing…”
—Henri Cartier-Bresson
In 1948 20-year-old photographer Don Normark walked up a hill in Los Angeles looking for a good view. Instead he found Chávez Ravine, site of three ramshackle Mexican-American neighborhoods tucked into Elysian Park “like a poor man’s Shangri-La,” he thought. He spent much of the next year photographing this uniquely intact rural community. Accepted by the residents, he returned often with his camera to witness a life that, though limited by poverty, was lived fully, openly, and joyfully.
In 1950 the people received letters telling them that they must sell their homes to … » More …
Spring 2006
Bridging two cultures
A small school district radically retools to serve its Hispanic students. » More ...