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22 Sep Sept. 28: WSU Tri-Cities to host career fair featuring new programming

Posted at 11:08h in Alumni, Art, Business, Design, Education, engineering, medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Science, Student, Wine, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A career fair will be hosted by Washington State University Tri-Cities, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, in the Consolidated Information Center and Student Union Building. The career fair is free and open to WSU Tri-Cities students, alumni and...

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...

15 Sep WSU Tri-Cities engineering and art partner to create robot that interacts with environment

Posted at 11:03h in Art, Design, engineering, frontpage, profile, Research, Student, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

By Adrian Aumen, WSU College of Arts & Sciences In a cold, dimly blue-lit room, a strange human–animal hybrid paces before the entrance to a fiery red cave. When the “Huminal” senses a viewer approaching, it stops, turns its head to stare at the visitor and...

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,...

05 Sep Kennewick teacher uses biology research experience from WSU Tri-Cities in classroom

Posted at 14:23h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, medicine, profile, Research, Science, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray An immersive experience at Washington State University Tri-Cities has Amy Verderber, a biology teacher at Kamiakin High School, performing research that has tie-ins to medicine. Verderber studied biology in college before certifying to become a teacher, but she never got the opportunity to explore...

05 Sep Sept. 14: WSU Tri-Cities celebrates grand opening of student union building

Posted at 11:24h in Alumni, frontpage, profile, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities invites members of the public to join the grand opening celebration of its $5.73 million campus student union building, 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 14. The event will feature a presentation by WSU President Kirk Schulz,...

28 Aug WSU leading online implementation of K-12 truancy prevention program

Posted at 13:45h in Academic Affairs, frontpage, profile, Psychology, Research, Student, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities Washington State University is leading the online implementation of a program aimed at reducing school truancy that could positively impact schools not only across the state, but also across the nation. The Washington Assessment of the Risks and Needs of Students program,...

24 Aug Survey suggests wine credentials have positive correlation on Twitter followers

Posted at 16:25h in Academic Affairs, Business, frontpage, Research, Wine, WSUTC News

RICHLAND, Wash. – A recent study conducted by a Washington State University Tri-Cities faculty member indicates that holding at least one internationally-recognized wine credential could have a positive correlation on the number of social media followers a wine blogger may have. Bottles of Blended Learning wine...