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Study: Food security varies widely across U.S. ethnic groups

American Indians and Alaska Natives living below the poverty line face sharply higher rates of food insecurity than other impoverished adults — nearly 4 in 10 lack consistent access to a healthy diet.

Volunteers serving meals at a food bank.

AI legal agent designed to guide police during domestic violence calls

Researchers from the WSU Complex Social Interactions (CSI) Lab were featured in coverage from New Atlas on their research and development of open-source AI platforms designed to support information gathering during police investigations.

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WSU researchers transfer nitrogen-harvesting genes into new strains of bacteria

Researchers at WSU have identified a key cluster of genes that can be moved from rhizobia bacteria that harvest nitrogen into bacteria that don’t — raising the possibility that microbes that dwell in cereal crops could eventually be engineered to atmospherically harvest nitrogen as well.

Nitrogen-fixing nodules are shown on the root of a plant.

Season Hoard wins Yang “Wendy” Liu Award

Season Hoard, political science professor, won the Yang “Wendy” Liu Award for making complicated US politics accessible to international students.

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