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Welcome Kirk Schulz as our 11th President! He currently serves as the President of Kansas State University. https://president.wsu.edu/transition/ 

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WSU Mars rover team advances in international competition - WSU News

By Randy Bolerjack, WSU North Puget Sound at Everett EVERETT, Wash. – For 13 months, Engineering Club students at Washington State University Everett have spent countless hours designing, building, testing and rebuilding a Mars rover meant to be able to work alongside human explorers on the surface of the Red Planet. This week, representatives of the University Rover Challenge announced in a video that the WSU team is one of 30 advancing to the semifinal round of the competition, which will take place June 2-4 at the Mars Society’s Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah. “I still remember when we did our first design ... » More ...

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Regent Lura J. Powell and Bob Drewel, former chancellor at WSU North Puget Sound at Everett, will co-chair a presidential transition team as the university plans for the appointment of its next chief executive this spring. Interim President Daniel J. Bernardo will work closely with Powell and Drewel to ensure a leadership transition that continues the momentum of WSU’s key initiatives. Bernardo will return to his duties as provost and executive vice president once the new president arrives on campus. “We are profoundly grateful to Dan for his exceptional leadership, grace and vision since he assumed the presidential duties ... » More ...

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PULLMAN, Wash. – For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of space-time called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window onto the cosmos. Gravitational waves carry information about their dramatic origins and about the nature of gravity that cannot otherwise be obtained. Physicists have concluded that the detected gravitational waves were produced during the final fraction of a second of the merger of two black holes to produce a single, more massive spinning black hole. ... » More ...

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University has experienced its highest spring semester enrollment ever, registering a total of 27,093 students statewide, up 2.1 percent from the spring semester of 2015.

The enrollment increase occurred across all WSU campuses, with WSU Tri-Cities registering the largest growth with a total enrollment of 1,510 students, an increase of 11.3 percent from the spring semester in 2015.

Interim WSU President Daniel J. Bernardo said that, in addition to attracting new students, the enrollment data show the university experienced a strong retention rate among existing students between the fall and spring semesters.

https://news.wsu.edu/2016/02/09/wsu-sees-record-spring-semester-enrollment-growth/

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PULLMAN, Wash. – How can a slow-flying insect tinier than a paper clip and as light as a Kleenex tissue be to blame for the global health emergency declared this week? The mosquito, Aedes aegypti, “isn’t some tropical forest-dweller that’s mostly isolated from people. It’s urban – it goes where the people are,” said entomologist Richard Zack of Washington State University. His research has taken him to Latin American countries where the mosquito is known to be spreading the Zika virus.

https://news.wsu.edu/2016/02/04/zika-mosquito-goes-where-the-people-are-says-wsu-researcher/

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have concluded that feeding a growing global population with sustainability goals in mind is possible. Their review of hundreds of published studies provides evidence that organic farming can produce sufficient yields, be profitable for farmers, protect and improve the environment and be safer for farm workers.

https://news.wsu.edu/2016/02/03/40-years-of-science-organic-ag-key-to-feeding-the-world/

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University students will design and build a solar home during the next two years as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition. For the first time, the contest will include $2 million in prize money. https://news.wsu.edu/2016/01/21/aiming-for-the-sun-wsu-chosen-to-vie-for-solar-home-prize/

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PULLMAN, Wash. - The founding dean of The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, Lawrence Pintak, announced today that he will step down at the end of the semester

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SEQUIM, Wash. - Washington State University is part of an $8 million effort to accelerate development of experimental model systems in marine microbial ecology.

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CONNELL, Wash. – Education has cultivated Gretchen Graber’s growth as an environmental scientist, so teaching inmates to raise sagebrush to restore habitat for the greater sage-grouse seemed like a natural offshoot.

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s medical college will bear the name of its initiator and strongest champion, the late WSU President Elson S. Floyd.

The WSU Board of Regents this morning approved a proposal to change the name from the College of Medical Sciences to the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. The board also welcomed the announcement of Dr. John Tomkowiak, a veteran of community-based, inter-professional medical education, as the inaugural dean of the college.

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PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University again experienced record enrollment this fall, registering a total of 29,686 students statewide. The additional 1,000 students represent a 3.5 percent increase from the previous record, set during the fall semester last year. The enrollment increase occurred across all WSU campuses, with WSU Tri-Cities and the WSU Global campus … Continue reading WSU enrollment sets record; growth seen on all campuses →

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Brig. Gen. John L. Poppe, chief of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, will receive the 2015 Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award for his leadership in animal health, food protection, and support of research and development activities worldwide. Poppe graduated cum laude from WSU with a bachelor of science in animal sciences in 1981 and cum laude from the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine

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By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found that the timing of an animal’s sleep can be just as important as how much sleeps it gets. Ilia Karatsoreos, an assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, shifted mice from their usual cycle of sleeping and … Continue reading Shifting sleep cycle affects sleep quality, immune response →

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Video: Unmanned helicopter tested for rainwater removal - WSU News

PROSSER, Wash. – Washington State University is partnering with Digital Harvest Corp. to test an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that could provide a safer, less expensive means to blow rainwater off cherry orchards to avoid fruit losses.

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PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have received support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve materials used in hip and knee replacements.