student stories

06 Jul Students craft plans to increase Tri‑Cities millennial tourism

Posted at 15:17h in Academic Affairs, Business, frontpage, profile, Student, student stories, WSUTC News

COVID-19 turned the team project in Joan Giese’s Marketing Management 495 class on its head. The assignment required students to develop strategies for bringing tourists in their 20s and 30s to the Tri-Cities in Central Washington. But as the project got underway, the state’s “stay home, stay...

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16 Jun WSU Tri-Cities alumna using photography to help combat racial and social injustice

Posted at 18:25h in Art, Design, Digital Technology and Culture, frontpage, profile, Psychology, Student, student stories, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

Sharing the complete picture of humanity, especially the hard topics, so that one-day she can affect positive change. That’s the reason photographer and Washington State University Tri-Cities alumna Madison Rosenbaum first picked up a camera....

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18 May Cross-country journey kick-started award-winning wine student’s career

Posted at 15:44h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Student, student stories, Viticulture / Enology / Wine, Wine, WSUTC News

When then-18-year-old Andrew Gerow packed his car to drive from his home in Michigan to start at WSU Tri-Cities, he knew what he wanted from his education....

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09 May Grad, future teacher uses online learning to advantage amid COVID-19

Posted at 01:45h in Academic Affairs, Education, frontpage, profile, Student, student stories, WSUTC News

Veronica Romero had plans to walk with her peers at the Washington State University Tri-Cities commencement this spring. But like many others, those plans are postponed....

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04 May Grad student to donate COVID-19 relief check to help WSU DACA students

Posted at 14:22h in frontpage, profile, Student, student stories, student success, WSUTC News

Washington State University Tri-Cities graduate student Aaron Pelly made the decision to donate his relief check to support those in the process of or are hoping to renew their participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA)....

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11 Nov Former Marine and first-gen college student sets sights on wine world

Posted at 08:00h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, profile, Student, student stories, TRIO, Wine, WSUTC News

Bernadette Gagnier (’20) knows a thing or two about being an outlier. Those principles—and a personal goal “to break stereotypes”—are what led her to join the Marines right out of high school, serving in Okinawa, Japan, South Korea, and in a western Pacific deployment where...

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08 Aug Students design prototype for WRPS to determine exact layout of solid waste in Hanford tanks

Posted at 13:06h in Academic Affairs, admissions, frontpage, profile, Research, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Student, student stories, WSUTC News

A team of Washington State University Tri-Cities student mechanical engineers partnered with Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) to design a prototype of an instrument that could one day be implemented to assess the exact location, amount and arrangement of solid radioactive waste in Hanford tanks....

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30 Oct Non-traditional student uses WSU Tri-Cities education to achieve better life for family

Posted at 11:35h in Academic Affairs, Alumni, College of Arts and Sciences, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Staff, Student, student stories, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

Through his science courses, Schramm learned the fundamentals of science experimentation, procedures and more. He also developed a mentor relationship with Dick Pratt, the head of the environmental science program at the time....

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12 Oct Digital Technology and Culture student: ‘WSU Tri-Cities was a no-brainer choice for me’

Posted at 18:35h in Academic Affairs, Art, College of Arts and Sciences, Design, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Student, student stories, WSUTC News

For student Lian Jacquez, finding the ideal university fit was a bit of a challenge - that is, until he arrived at Washington State University Tri-Cities....

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05 May WSU Tri-Cities valedictorian aims to improve disabled student opportunities

Posted at 19:48h in Academic Affairs, College of Education, frontpage, profile, Research, Student, student stories, WSUTC News

Kylie Chiesa, this year’s Washington State University Tri-Cities valedictorian, has always felt she had a special connection to children with developmental and physical disabilities....

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