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Seven high school seniors from the Kennewick School District (KSD) signed commitment letters to attend Washington State University (WSU) Tri-Cities to earn their teaching degree while also working part-time for the Kennewick School District as substitute paraeducators.  The Teaching Bridge program is the first program of its kind in the state that focuses on a partnership between a school district and a 4-year university to provide a career-connected learning pathway from high school to college for students interested in careers in education....

30 May, 2023

Christina Lansing, a Washington State University Tri-Cities second-year mechanical engineering student will receive a $12,000 fellowship to participate in a new exchange and research program between Washington State University and Sweden’s Linkoping University (LiU). Selected by WSU and LiU professors, Lansing will begin her fellowship in fall 2023....

10 April, 2023

Washington State University Tri-Cities and Snohomish County will partner to bring a proposed research and development center for sustainable aviation fuels to life. Snohomish County officials announced Tuesday plans for a $6.5 million Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Applied Research and Development Center located at Paine Field in Snohomish County. The first-of-its-kind center will offer fuel testing, fuel finishing and the world’s first fuel repository....

03 April, 2023

An all-female team from Washington State University Tri-Cities’ Coding Cougs student organization won second place in the novice division at the 11th annual Washington State University Crimson Code Hackathon event held in February in Pullman, Washington. The team developed an application to help people connect with each other by trying new activities together....

24 March, 2023

Washington State University Tri-Cities, the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion and the WSU Tri-Cities Career Center will be hosting a Women in STEM event on Thursday, March 23 from 5:30-7 p.m. on the WSU Tri-Cities campus in the East Auditorium and via Zoom....

20 March, 2023

For Zarryn Duong, a Kennewick native and first-generation student, going to college after high school was always the plan. He grew up with an interest in engineering, while his father dreamed of him becoming a doctor. It wasn’t until he took a career quiz in high school that pointed him to neurology that he started to think perhaps his father knew best. And it wasn’t until he started at Washington State University Tri-Cities that he realized how important making connections and getting involved would be to earning his bachelor’s degree and getting accepted into medical school....

07 March, 2023
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