News

Cannabis is often used as a stress reliever, but a new study suggests that some of the body’s stress response systems don’t get the message.

Along a quarter of the planet’s coastal waterways, humans contribute more harmful nitrogen – via agricultural runoff, wastewater discharges and other activities – than all natural sources combined.

Thessalia Merivaki, professor of government and director of the Foley Institute, was quoted in an CNBC article about election officials banning certain public workers from trading on prediction markets ahead of midterm elections. 

The College of Arts and Sciences has selected Katie Forsythe as the new director of student success, strengthening a college-wide effort to ensure students graduate prepared for their first job and for careers that will continue to evolve throughout their lives.

Matthew Sutton, the Claudius O. and Mary Johnson Distinguished Professor and chair of the WSU Department of History, wrote in The Nation that the Democratic state legislator from Texas is reviving a tradition of center-left activism rooted in Christianity. 

That’s the conclusion of the first-ever comprehensive report on the fate of butterflies, released last year by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and led by Cheryl Schultz, a conservation biologist at Washington State University.

Xueying “Snow” Wang is using computational modeling to decipher how viral infections spread across multiple scales, from processes inside individual cells to outbreaks across populations.

Nathan Baker, senior partner architect in Microsoft’s quantum applications division, is the fall 2026 feature speaker in the College of Arts and Sciences’ Innovative Leaders Lecture Series.

The effort to modernize Washington State University’s scientific learning spaces has received a boost, as Ned and Nancy Wogman pledged $3 million to outfit three instructional chemistry laboratories in the planned Integrated Sciences Building on the Pullman campus.

Nicole Scoggins spent five months in Paris as a part of the Study Abroad program. The fall application for the Gilman scholarship is due Oct. 1.