WSU Tri-Cities

“Critical minerals” have moved from obscure policy jargon to a central topic in debates over energy, technology, and national security.

Ruben Lemos and his wife knocked on the door of an apartment building with a “for rent” sign when they were looking for a place in Pasco. The landlady turned the young couple away.

PNNL News: Emily Graham, an ecologist with a PNNL-WSU joint appointment, talks about the new Global Soil Virus Atlas and its potential to spur research and innovation in plant productivity and carbon sequestration.

OPB News: Robert Franklin, assistant professor of history, shares the larger history of the Hanford site as well as lesser known stories of the community surrounding and supporting the Manhattan Project.

The breadth of scholarly interests and teaching expertise of the college’s newest faculty—from environmental humanities and many-body physics to economic globalization and the history of visual storytelling—enriches and expands the arts and sciences across the WSU system.

A new cross-campus course between Washington State University Pullman and WSU Tri-Cities is enabling history and architecture graduate students to bring rarely told stories about east Pasco’s racial history to life. The spring 2024 course “Issues in Architecture” (Architecture 542) examines infrastructural racism by studying how the built environment shapes communities in relationship with discrimination. […]

Nineteen faculty, five staff, and seven graduate students were honored for outstanding achievement and their commitment to excellence at the 2024 College of Arts and Sciences Appreciation and Recognition Social last week.

After a successful pilot launch in 2023, the Seattle Experience, a faculty-led alternative spring break program hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences, kicked off the first of a three-year donor-funded series this March.

Take a deep breath. Pay attention to how air moves from your nose to your throat before filling your lungs with oxygen. As you exhale your breath, a mix of oxygen and carbon dioxide leaves your nose and mouth. Did you know that streams and rivers “breathe” in a similar way? One of the drivers […]

From the early 1940s, legal segregation and the attitudes of the Tri-Cities community made Black people feel unwelcome, according to Robert Bauman, a history professor at WSU Tri-Cities. “Kennewick was a sundown town…,” Bauman said. “There were some African Americans who worked there, not a lot. And Blacks could come to Kennewick to shop whatever […]