Voters who are neither wealthy nor white are more likely to live in counties with fewer resources available to make sure ballots are counted on time, a new election index revealed. Researchers developed the County Election Administration index, detailed in the Election Law Journal, to evaluate election performance by county rather than just by state. Election […]
Gang dynamics, effective surveys, rural communities, families, environmental issues—Washington State University’s sociology department explored these societal topics and many others over the last 100 years. The department always kept an eye on the university’s mission to connect research with people and communities across the state. Fred Yoder was appointed as the first sociologist at Washington State […]
Juneteenth commemorates a moment in time, June 19, 1865, when enslaved Black Americans in Texas were finally told they were free. Freedom Day has been celebrated for decades in Black communities. Now a federal holiday, Juneteenth can also be a time of teaching and learning Black history everywhere, said R. Xach Williams, an assistant professor of ethnic studies at Washington State University. […]
Who proposes a bill matters more to Republican men than what it says — at least when it comes to the environment, a recent study found. In an experiment with 800 adults, researchers used an article describing a hypothetical U.S. Senate bill about funding state programs to reduce water pollution to test partisan preferences, changing only the […]
Carla Olman Peperzak has told her story of helping Jews during World War II many times. She’s been honored for her heroism, including receiving an honorary doctoral degree from Washington State University that will be conferred at commencement in May. On this cold February day, however, she has something else on her mind. “Germany before the war […]
Abigail Nnaji presents painting series inspired by experiences, changes throughout career “Memoirs” is a curated collection of ten paintings inspired by artist Abigail Nnaji’s memories, experiences and changes throughout her career and on display in the SEB gallery. The Student Entertainment Board hosted a gallery reception Feb. 15 featuring the master of fine arts candidate […]
WSU alumus John Wiess had 70 years and 28 days with his wife, Geraldine Wiess, before she passed away. Now, one of the multiple scholarships he set up through WSU is dedicated to her. John said both he and Gerry were in Greek life and met through a coke date, which is when a new […]
Horses crossed the Baltic Sea in ships during the Late Viking Age and were sacrificed for funeral rituals, according to a study led by Cardiff University and Washington State University researchers. Published in the journal Science Advances, the study on the remains of horses found at ancient burial sites in Russia and Lithuania show that they were […]
Fostering positive change through scholarship Tiarå Freeman, an experimental psychology graduate student, was raised on an organic farm in northern New Mexico. Her family grew everything, she said—squash, corn, peppers, tomatoes, okra, spinach, broccoli, and “swaths of cosmos”—which are related to sunflowers and come in lovely shades of fuchsia, pale purple, and bright orange. foraged for wild spinach, […]
Clinical psychology doctoral student loves working with moms and infants Marco Ramirez Gonzalez came to the U.S. from Mexico when he was five and lived in El Paso, Texas, close to the border. Later, his family moved to Houston where he attended Seven Lakes High School, an enormous school with an enormous population of 3,600 […]
