Summer 2024
Waterworld made a splash at Expo ’74
Washington State University’s pavilion at the 1974 Spokane World’s Fair showcased water’s importance. » More ...
Spokane
Summer 2024
WSU’s Waterworld pavilion at Expo ’74 revisited
Travel back to Expo ’74 in Spokane to see the remarkable WSU Waterworld pavilion.
Read about how WSU students and faculty created an exhibit highlighting the importance of water for the 1974 World’s Fair.
Winter 2022
Sandy Williams
A remembrance of the Spokane civil rights and Black leader and journalist » More ...
Summer 2022
Organic and geometric, reclaimed
A striking installation in Spokane illuminates and inspires. » More ...
Winter 2020
The ultimate physical exam
Longtime Spokane County medical examiner Sally Aiken has taken a lead role during the Covid-19 pandemic. » More ...
Spring 2019
Power of words
Sandy Williams delivers a voice to the African-American community in Spokane through Black Lens. The Washington State University alumna started and still publishes the newspaper to raise the profile of the Black community in Spokane and empower people to speak up. » More ...
Spring 2019
Making the difference
Kerry Clark, a Washington State University alumnus, took an improbable path from wild self-destructive behavior to teaching, counseling, and coaching at Saint George's School in Spokane. » More ...
Fall 2017
The accidental novelist
What began as a way to avoid going stir crazy while recuperating from a nearly fatal equestrian accident has become an award-winning western genre trilogy that blends suspenseful mystery and the allure of lost fortunes with good old-fashioned frontier fortitude.
Landscape architect STEPHEN B. SMART ’75 calls himself an unlikely novelist. He’s spent most of his life outdoors, designing everything from elaborate gardens and water features to a driveway gate cleverly concealed to appear as a fallen ponderosa pine. And in his free time, he’s more likely to be found atop a favorite mule exploring the Pacific Northwest backcountry than sitting at a keyboard … » More …
Fall 2016
The Epidemic
“This program saved my life,” he says as he enters the room. Kris, 37, is in the Spokane Regional Health District methadone clinic where he has come for treatment of heroin addiction since 2008. The intense, dark-haired man speaks openly, earnestly, as if he has nothing left to lose.
Kris says his journey into addiction began, “Quite simply, by a doctor.” Struggling with pain from a minor car accident in 1999, he was prescribed increasingly stronger doses of hydrocodone and OxyContin over a nine-year period. The FBI eventually raided the unethical physician and closed his practice, leaving patients like Kris stranded and facing withdrawal when … » More …
Fall 2014
Gallery: WSU Riverpoint Campus in Spokane
The Riverpoint Campus in Spokane has become a lively urban setting for WSU, Eastern Washington University, and University of Washington programs. A health sciences focus has drawn hundreds of pharmacy, nursing, and medical students to its classrooms, laboratories, and library.
Read more about WSU Spokane’s history in “For the Health of a City.”
Photos by Zach Mazur.