Academic Affairs

19 Oct Zambian grad student studying solutions to water access, pollution as part of Fulbright at WSU Tri-Cities

Posted at 11:09h in Academic Affairs, engineering, frontpage, profile, Research, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray In graduate student Kenny Nyirenda’s home country of Zambia, access to clean water sources can be challenging, especially in remote areas. That is why he has committed his graduate research as a Fulbright scholar at Washington State University Tri-Cities to improving access to clean...

17 Oct WSU Tri-Cities professor growing partnerships for arts education across the globe

Posted at 15:28h in Academic Affairs, Art, Design, Education, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Yichien Cooper, adjunct professor of teaching and learning at Washington State University Tri-Cities, is showing the world that arts education is more than the creation of physical and digital media through her work in growing international partnerships across the globe. Yichien Cooper and teachers from STEAM workshop in Hong Kong Cooper traveled...

12 Oct Research experience at WSU Tri-Cities allows Pasco teacher opportunity to learn science behind wine

Posted at 16:15h in Academic Affairs, Alumni, frontpage, Research, Science, Student, Wine, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray Wine is a $2 billion industry in Washington state, but many students will not be exposed to the science behind the field as a possible career option until they reach college. Thanks to the Partners in Science program, however, one high school teacher...

06 Oct WSU, PNNL convert biofuel waste into commodity, now targeting sewage sludge

Posted at 10:53h in Academic Affairs, Alumni, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A method of converting a biofuel waste product into a usable and valuable commodity has been discovered by researchers at Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Converting algae to biofuels is a two-step process. The first, developed by PNNL,...

02 Oct African American history at Hanford focus of WSU Tri-Cities, National Park Service project

Posted at 16:52h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities was recently awarded a $73,000 grant in partnership with the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service to research and document the African American migration, segregation and overall civil rights history at the...

26 Sep Business professor takes talents to Switzerland as part of Carson College international partnership

Posted at 16:19h in Academic Affairs, Business, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities Paul Skilton is the first professor from Washington State University Tri-Cities to participate in a teaching abroad experience with a prestigious business school in Brig, Switzerland. WSU partners with the César Ritz Colleges in Switzerland to offer a dual degree program in...

20 Sep WSU Tri-Cities experiences another record enrollment fall start

Posted at 11:38h in Academic Affairs, Alumni, frontpage, profile, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities experienced another record enrollment this fall, celebrating a 5.1 percent increase in undergraduate students, which brings the campus to a total of 1,937 students. The overall enrollment increased by 3.7 percent and the growth this...

18 Sep WSU fine arts professor named state’s young arts leader

Posted at 08:47h in Academic Affairs, Art, Design, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Adriana Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences Christenson RICHLAND, Wash. – Peter Christenson, assistant professor of fine arts at Washington State University Tri-Cities, has received the Governor’s Arts & Heritage Young Arts Leader Award from the Washington State Arts Commission. Christenson is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. He co-founded Left...

12 Sep WSU Tri-Cities partners with youth program for academic camps in east Pasco community

Posted at 14:22h in Academic Affairs, Education, frontpage, profile, Research, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Citiies RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities has joined forces with a local youth-operated program to grow its home-based extracurricular learning opportunities in a community in east Pasco. The organization, Ambassadors of Lakeview Achieving Success (ALAS), originated several years ago when Lakeview...

11 Sep New vice chancellor to highlight campus strengths as means to fulfill regional community needs

Posted at 15:34h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray Martin Klotz, the new Washington State University Tri-Cities vice chancellor of academic affairs, hopes to focus on the university’s unique strengths to meet the needs of not only the Tri-Cities regional community, but also the state and nation. A microbiologist and academic by profession,...