History Professor Laurie Mercier (WSU Vancouver) specializes in labor issues and says the growing disconnect between unions and the public is apparent in her classrooms.
Working with students, she’s developed about a dozen narrative and photo panels displayed in a new exhibit at Clark County Historical Museum.
The Partners in Discovery GK-12 Project brought together environmental science graduate students from WSUV with middle school science teachers in several Clark County districts for real-world science projects using funds from an NSF grant.
“Think of pipe stems as the cigarette butts of the past,” said Katie Wynia, a Washington State University Vancouver instructor at the field school at Fort Vancouver. In earlier times, “Everybody smoked tobacco.”
Wynia came across some Hudson’s Bay Company records… read more here.
Electronic literature lives on through the WSUV ‘Pathfinders’ project—saving early digital works of the late 20th century.
An ambitious effort is under way in Vancouver to preserve electronic literature from the past. The project, “Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature,” debuted at WSU Vancouver this week. The project is led by Dene Grigar, director and associate professor in the digital technology and culture program at WSU Vancouver, and Stuart Moulthrop, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
With constant changes in technology, electronic artists face a continuous demand to preserve and update their work. Read more about the project
Marine ecologist Brian Tissot raises serious concerns about reef and ecosystem damage related to collecting and selling tropical fish and other sea creatures. Some public aquariums, retailers, and wholesalers are taking measures to improve their practices.
Could new insights from the aquarium hobby actually help reef-dependent humans and animals alike?
See the clownfish and read more about ending destructive practices and encouraging aquaculture