With its wide range of art-making approaches, the annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition is a showcase of two or more years work by graduating MFA candidates and a stimulating experience for WSU faculty, staff, students, and museum visitors. The 2022 cohort of student-artists engaged in an intense interdisciplinary
The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, domestic threats to democracy, and the role young people must play in securing the future of the U.S. were among the topics discussed by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis during his Foley Institute Distinguished Lecture in March. At the heart of his remarks was the importance of cooperation, […]
People look up to former WSU and NBA basketball player James Donaldson (’79 Sociology) in more ways than one. That’s what his first book is about. Standing Above the Crowd explains his strategies for success in athletics, business, and more. A few years after its 2011 publication, though, a series of stressful events changed his outlook. […]
Communities on the frontlines of climate change want to take the lead in choosing their own adaptive strategies. Whether or not humanity rises to the challenges of a warming planet may depend on it, according to a WSU-led paper recently published in Nature Climate Change.
Arts and sciences doctoral students from across the Pullman campus recently competed in a semi-final contest in WSU’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenge by delivering particularly succinct descriptions of their years-long, often-esoteric research projects.
Pretty much every living thing on our planet—from a blue whale to a tiny ant—has something in common. We all have cells, which are the building blocks of life, and inside of those cells we have DNA. My friend Gunjan Gakhar, a teaching assistant professor in biology at
Think evolution is a slow, gradual process? Tell that to fruit flies. In a new report in Science, researchers from Washington State University and University of Pennsylvania used a controlled field experiment to show that flies rapidly adapted to shifting environmental conditions with
There is perhaps no one in the Inland Northwest who understands the dire consequences laid out in the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report better than Tim Kohler, a WSU emeritus professor of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology. He holds the distinction of being the first archaeologist to contribute to an IPCC report […]
Who better than an expert mathematician to help celebrate the 14th day of the third month of the year, unofficially known as Pi Day for the numeric expression it shares with the the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle: 3.14.
New research by WSU political scientists indicates governments worldwide are making progress to promote women’s empowerment through policies and mechanisms intended to advance gender equality. “Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women have been established by