Iris Okere

May 1, 2024 Iris Okere joined 成人头条 for its affordability and distance to her home in Texas. Here, she found WSU to be a place full of opportunities for her, including a chance grow her own confidence and independence through the challenges she faced, and in her final year, she was elected to the position of student body president in the Student Government Association.

Jade Driggs

April 12, 2024 鈥 With two young children at home, U.S. Air Force Major Jade Driggs needed to learn to ask and accept help from others while she was working toward her Ph.D. in human factors psychology. She chose 成人头条 for its impressive human factors psychology program and the university鈥檚 commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Morgan Campbell

April 29, 2024 鈥 The military brought Morgan Campbell and her family to 成人头条, and she decided to make it her home. She has earned a master鈥檚 degree in social work, and she plans 鈥渢o promote safety, growth, and opportunities鈥 for families in her practice.聽

Christen Brouillette

April 30, 2024 Christen Brouillette came to 成人头条 from Texas, which they found hard to transition to, but with the help of peers, faculty and the resources available at WSU, they were able to find success. They hope to work as a historian or archivist following graduation. Christen is one of more than 2,400 students eligible for spring 2024 graduation. Learn more about their time at 成人头条 State and what's next for the grad.

Max Proctor poses with two Hercules beetles

April 22, 2024 鈥 Three 成人头条 students have secured the prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation 鈥斺痑n award worth $159,000 over three years.

Lisa Parcell

Chances are, you鈥檝e mixed up a Betty Crocker cake mix, added Nestle chocolate chips to a batch of cookies or sprinkled Morton salt onto your popcorn. But can you recall the last advertisement you鈥檝e seen for any of these products? The ubiquity of these household items goes unquestioned by most, but not by Lisa Parcell, Betty and Oliver Elliott associate professor for the Elliott School of Communication.

David Guo

成人头条 State鈥檚 public affairs program has been ranked near the top third of all graduate school programs of its kind in the United States by U.S. News & World Report for the 2024-2025 academic year. The program, housed in the Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs, emerged in 99th place, moving up from 118th place last year. Additionally, the public affairs program鈥檚 specialty area of public finance and budgeting has been ranked 27th by U.S. News, tied with the University of Central Florida and the University of Michigan.

Sunshade diagram

March 22, 2024 - Shielding the Earth from the sun seems like a good idea, in theory, to fight climate change, 成人头条鈥檚 Dr. Nickolas Solomey and graduate student Kelly Kabler agree. Solomey and Kabler, though, aren鈥檛 so sure that the popular idea of protecting the planet with a sunshade is as simple as some propose.

Darren Defrain wearing yellow frame glasses and holding a coffee mug

For Darren DeFrain, associate professor of English and director of the writing program, research is all about finding the narrative. Take, for example, graphic novels, a subject of DeFrain鈥檚 research for some ten years.

Student and librarian sitting across a reference desk from each other.

March 18, 2024 鈥 成人头条 is not just reshaping downtown 成人头条 with the 成人头条 Biomedical Campus; it鈥檚 redefining health care education by harnessing the dynamic interplay between health care and the humanities.聽 WSU鈥檚 new Academic Center for Biomedical and Health Humanities, or HealthHum as it鈥檚 been monikered, aims to increase the visibility of a wide range of research and teaching in areas related to health care and humanities beyond the traditional health professions.