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Cougar Success website debuts

PULLMAN, Wash. – Just in time for the summer’s first Alive! student orientation sessions this weekend, Washington State University students have a new go-to source for tools and tips designed to foster success.

New online decision tools aid wheat, barley growers

By Kate Wilhite, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Unsure of what wheat variety to plant this year? There’s a tool for that. Need help measuring the nitrogen levels in your field, before or after harvest? There’s a tool for that too, thanks to Washington State University.

WSU Today, WSU Spokane nab four awards

  WSU Today and WSU Spokane have received four awards from the Spokane Regional Marcom Association, an organization of communication, public relations and marketing professionals from throughout the Inland Northwest.   WSU Today received an award of excellence in the “newspaper” category for WSU Today (the university’s formerly printed newspaper that ceased print on Feb. 6, 2009), and […]

Formal Launch of eXtension Feb 21

PULMAN – eXtension, a national web resource that brings the knowledge and resources of the nation’s land-grant universities to one site, will be formally launched Feb 21 as part of the 2008 Agricultural Outlook Forum in Washington, D.C. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Shafer is scheduled to “cut the ribbon” during a ceremony, scheduled for noon […]

New site features annual WSU facts

  A new website highlights the annual WSU statewide Facts & Figures brochure. Contents include various statistics and information about enrollment, campuses, national recognition and more. To download a PDF of the brochure or find out how to request a copy, see ONLINE @ http://facts-figures.wsu.edu.

Making GeoMonkey business

GeoMonkey is a class project that has come alive as a map-sharing resource (ONLINE @ www.geomonkey.com). Orest Pilskalns, assistant professor of computer science at WSU Vancouver, first envisioned GeoMonkey. “My idea was to create a simple way for users to store and share maps,” he explained. “Then hiking enthusiasts, travel agents, runners, event planners or […]

Website compares data about students nationwide

The Institute for College Access and Success launched a website today that is designed to make it easier to compare economic data about students at colleges across the country. The website, Economic Diversity of Colleges, or Economicdiversity.org, has data showing the extent to which public and private colleges and universities enroll undergraduates from various economic, ethnic and racial backgrounds. […]

WSU Today online traffic up 7,000 percent

Traffic at WSU Today online, www.wsutoday.wsu.edu, has grown substantially over the past three years from 300 visitors a month to 24,000 in January.And there’s a good reason. In addition to providing university news — updated on a daily basis — it also offers up-to-the-minute headlines and live links to stories from the WSU News Service […]