Sacajawea: Important to U.S. History
Orlan Svingen, professor of history, has worked with the descendants of Sacajawea, the Agai Dika people, since 1991.
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Carter receives advising award
In December, Pat Carter, associate professor in the School of Biological Sciences (SBS), received the Outstanding Advising Award from the WSU chapter of the National Academic Advising Association. He is associate director of the SBS undergraduate program and the school’s dedicated advisor for pre-veterinary studies.
Of his 17 years as a student advisor, Carter believes “advising is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job.”
Persistent photoconductivity discovery continues to make headlines around the world
News of a potential four hundred-fold conductivity increase in strontium titanate crystals by WSU researchers was reported in newspapers, on blogs, in academic circles and over the airwaves from Seattle to Toronto to Europe to the Philippines. (See original post on 11/14/2013.)
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WSU students take aim at the Spokane River
This fall, 16 WSU students are seeking ways to reduce, and hopefully prevent, pollution in the Spokane River. Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences’ student ambassador program, the Save the Spokane research challenge “is a way for students from different majors to collaborate,” says Devon Seymour, a senior studying French and global politics and organizer of the project.
Shaking the tree: researchers revise Darwin’s invasive species theory
“We thought we understood how things happened, but maybe they happened for another reason,” says Emily Jones, a Rice University researcher in evolutionary ecology who started pondering Darwin’s conundrum while a post-doctoral researcher in the Washington State University lab of Richard Gomulkiewicz. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Jones and colleagues Gomulkiewicz and Scott Nuismer of the University of Idaho say the relatedness of new and established species is not as important as the details of how they go about doing their business..
“Darwin put out a lot of interesting ideas back in the day but he didn’t have the means to check them with rigor,” says Gomulkiewicz, a professor in the WSU School of Biological Sciences. “That’s what we did with our mathematical model, and we found that Darwin’s logic on this issue doesn’t quite pan out.”
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