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The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

The student voice of Washington State University since 1895

The Daily Evergreen

Coding Pals and Error 404: Team Not Found won in their respective tiers. Coding Pals created an app showing DNA and bones. The second team translated ASL into text.

Hacking away at the competition

ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter February 25, 2020

Coding Pals and Error 404: Team Not Found got first place in their respective tiers during the annual CrimsonCode Hackathon which took place Feb. 22 and 23.  The hackathon was hosted by the Association...

GPSA allocates money for kids’ science day

GPSA allocates money for kids’ science day

MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen roots editor February 25, 2020

A representative from the WSU Women*s Center spoke to GPSA senators about resources available for students. Senators also approved to fund $1,000 for the Kids Science and Engineering Day. Women*s Center  Iris...

From left to right: William Hall, assistant professor of mathematics education, Alexander Spradlin, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, Carrie Bullock Ben-Yisrael, academic coordinator and retention specialist for TRIO Student Support Services, and Laura Lavine, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology.

Panelists speak about first-gen student support

ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter February 24, 2020

Speakers explained how change happens gradually among first-generation, low-income and other underrepresented communities at a panel discussion on Friday. WSU’s Office of Access and Opportunity in...

Lucila Loera-Herrera, Executive Director of the Office for Access & Opportunity, speaks about strategies for supporting first generation students on Thursday afternoon at the CUB.

Group hosts webinar to identify first-gen student needs

ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter February 24, 2020

A program under WSU’s Division of Student Affairs hosted a webinar on ways to support first-generation students which includes defining first-generation, targeting the population and identifying their needs. La’Tonya...

Academic Success Coach Katie Reilly speaks about the academic and career developmental services  the program offers in place of a canceled class on Friday at the Lighty Student Services building.

Program could lead to fewer canceled classes

ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen editor-in-chief February 24, 2020

Professors may not have to cancel class so often this semester. The Academic Success and Career Center launched the Don’t Cancel Class Program in hopes of honing students’ academic habits, according...

An electrical technician works to replace a faulty high-voltage cable in a vault underneath Stadium Way on the South side of the WSU Campus on Thursday. It took 24 hours to restore power to the affected buildings.

Power restored to South side of campus

LUKE HUDSON, Evergreen reporter February 21, 2020

After going about 24 hours without electricity, power was restored at around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday for six WSU buildings on the South side of campus. Ryan Gehring, operations manager for electrical...

Family of student asks for help

Family of student asks for help

LAUREN ELLENBECKER, Evergreen reporter February 21, 2020

Friends and family of an injured WSU Pullman student are asking for help funding his rehabilitation care. Kyle Osborne, 19, was hospitalized after being hit by a car on Nov. 25 in Southern California while...

Cougs Rise Project Coordinators Araseli Solorio, left, and Cesar Munguia highlight the changes to their summer program to better assist current and graduating high school students.

Cougs Rise connects students to resources

ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen editor-in-chief February 21, 2020

Looking back, Araseli Solorio said she would have appreciated having courses that inform students about different types of loans during her days as a college student. “There was no resources at the...

Gavin Green, Census Bureau recruiting assistant, gives a presentation on the 2020 Census and explains what the job entails on Wednesday at Todd Hall, Room 302.

Club enters national competition for census awareness

ANDREA GONZALEZ, Evergreen reporter February 21, 2020

A student club is working with the Census Bureau for a national competition to raise awareness about the 2020 Census.  Kendall Hoy, Cougs for Census team and research leader, said the census is...

Representing the College of Arts and Sciences, Pamela Thoma asks a question to Greg Crouch, the Chair Faculty Senate, on Thursday afternoon at FSHN, Room T101.

‘We’re not transparent until we’re forced to be transparent’

JAKOB THORINGTON, Former Evergreen reporter February 21, 2020

This story was updated to correct an error. An outside firm will be conducting a review of the allegations of gender bias, not the Attorney General's office. An outside firm will be conducting...

Phil Weiler, vice president of marketing and communications at WSU, discusses Workday which is the new financial management software that WSU plans to use to combat fraud, during an interview on Thursday afternoon in the Lighty French Administration Building.

Former WSU staff lied about paid work

JAKOB THORINGTON, Former Evergreen reporter February 21, 2020

Former WSU employees misreported and received more than $12,000 in unearned wages between 2014 and 2019. The Washington State Auditor’s Office published a report on Feb. 10 indicating four cases...

Students wait for release during police activity

Students wait for release during police activity

JAYCE CARRAL, Evergreen reporter February 20, 2020

Students from Pullman Public Schools who live on the 300 block of NW Robert Street are being held at school due to police activity.  The school district does not consider students to be at risk,...

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