Skip to main content Skip to navigation
CAS in the Media Arts and Sciences Media Headlines

The Centrality of Dual Career for Recruiting Women

Dual-career programs have become widely seen as vital in faculty recruiting. To get one half of a faculty couple, a college needs to offer a good opportunity to the spouse, the theory goes. Colleges do this in a variety of ways, sometimes going so far as to authorize new lines in some departments so that both halves of a couple have a reason to move. But other institutions do relatively little to help.

Julie Kmec
Julie Kmec

Julie Kmec, a professor of sociology at Washington State University, and Hong Zhang, a doctoral student there, used survey data from faculty couples at seven universities to examine dual-career issues in academe. » More …

Through Sept. 17: Faculty art explores geometric tradition

A retrospective of works by Chris Watts, emeritus professor of fine arts at WSU, will run Aug. 22-Sept. 17 at the Museum of Art/WSU. An opening reception at 6 p.m. and artist talk at 7 p.m. will be Thursday, Aug. 25, in the museum gallery. Admission is free.

Chris Watts
Chris Watts

Citing influences as diverse as Bronze Age monuments, spirals and mazes, Pythagoras, counting processes, scientific structures, bell ringing, Theosophy and the geometric tradition in art, Watts pursues a long-term inquiry into systems of order, patterning and – to a certain degree – spiritual or esoteric ideas.

Find out more

WSU News

New WSU study: Even tired cops are more hesitant to shoot black suspects

The most explosive crisis law enforcement faces today is the allegation that rampant racial bias drives officers’ shooting decisions.

Bryan Vila
Bryan Vila

Yet a new study by Bryan Vila, professor of criminal justice and criminology, and two of his associates in the WSU Sleep and Performance research Center concludes that officers tend not to be biased against black suspects in resorting to deadly force, even when fatigued and thus potentially more vulnerable to making angry, irrational, and impulsive decisions.  » More …

Collaborative criminology

While Sociology 336, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, might sound like a normal college course, the class actually brings together students from the University of Idaho and Washington State University for an educational experience abroad.

Melanie-Angela Neuilly
Melanie-Angela Neuilly

Melanie Neuilly, a professor of comparative criminal justice at WSU, thought the course was a great opportunity to take students to study criminal justice in another country. This year’s program traveled to the Netherlands for its third year at WSU and second at UI. She said in previous years the program has also traveled to London.

“The purpose of the program is to expose students to a variety of dimensions of criminal justice,” Neuilly said. » More …

Daughters of Hanford Wins History Award

The Washington State Historical Society will present the David Douglas Award to the Daughters of Hanford, an educational collaboration between Northwest News Network correspondent Anna King, freelance photographer Kai-Huei Yau, and Doug Gast, associate professor of fine arts and director of the Digital Technology and Culture (DTC) Program at WSU Tri-Cities, with assistance from DTC student interns and community members.

Doug Gast
Doug Gast

Daughters of Hanford is oral histories, portraits and personal archives of women who changed the World War II plutonium site, and women who were changed by it. It’s a series, a museum installation, and a radio documentary.

The Douglas Award honors projects, exhibits and digital presentations that inform and expand appreciation of Washington state history. The award will be conferred at a ceremony in Tacoma in September.

Find out more

Northwest News Network