The Daily Evergreen

U.S. Dept. of Energy adviser speaks at WSU about supercomputing

Jessica Zhou | Evergreen reporter • September 22, 2016

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) name is misleading, said Dimitri Kusnezov, U.S. Department of Energy chief scientist, while speaking in the CUB Junior Ballroom on Wednesday.Energy is a small part of...

WSU releases new variety of wheat

From staff reports • September 22, 2016

WSU has released a new winter wheat variety called “Jasper,” named after William Jasper Spillman, the founder of the university’s wheat breeding program in 1894, according to a WSU News release....

Prosecutor may decide whether to charge football player Monday

From staff reports • September 22, 2016

The Whitman County Prosecutor may decide as early as next week whether to file charges against a football player for allegedly assaulting a man at Domino’s in September.Prosecutor Denis Tracy said after...

Crop failure costs farmers thousands

KATIE SHADLER | Evergreen reporter • September 21, 2016

They pull their trucks and trailers into the Rosauers Supermarket parking lot in Colfax around 6 a.m. Inside, they gather around tables, enjoying a warm breakfast and each other’s company, cracking jokes...

Converting sugar into carbon fiber

CLAYTON SIMUNDSON | Evergreen contributor • September 21, 2016

Washington could become one of the world’s premier carbon fiber production locations because of the work of WSU researchers, who found that sugar can be used to create renewable carbon fiber.Carbon fiber...

Dept. of Agriculture awards WSU grants

From staff reports • September 21, 2016

WSU has received two grants totaling more than $900,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to work on methods of increasing irrigation efficiency in Washington and cheaply transporting manure...

Assault victim responds to arrests

DAN DOUCET, Evergreen opinion editor • September 20, 2016

The new bite will take some getting used to; yawning and coughing hurt, touching the area around the injury is painful, and assault victim Alex Rodriguez can’t feel anything where the nerves are. Aside...

WSU ranked 47 in public research institutions nationally

JESSICA ZHOU | Evergreen reporter • September 20, 2016

WSU was ranked as the 47th top public research university in the nation in 2014, according to the Center for Measuring University Performance’s (CMUP) latest report.President Kirk Schulz said he plans...

Cougar overlord

Nicholas Sandifer | Daily Evergreen cartoonist • September 19, 2016

The university issued a statement in support of free speech after Mike Leach endorsed Donald Trump at a Spokane rally last May. However, when Director of the WSU Large Carnivore Conservation Lab Robert Wielgus spoke out against the lethal removal of the Profanity Peak wolf pack, WSU disavowed his comments as “inaccurate and inappropriate” in an Aug. 31 statement.