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Phil Weiler, VP of marketing and communications at WSU, talks about the largest freshmen class.

Data shows high levels of freshman enrollment

MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen roots editor • September 20, 2018

Final results for fall enrollment at WSU Pullman showed an increase in freshman enrollment by roughly five times the normal rate, said Phil Weiler, vice president of marketing and communications. Current...

Becky Bart, of Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, gives a speech at the Plant Phenomics Symposium Tuesday afternoon in the PACCAR Environmental Technology Building.

Event highlights new plant research facility

MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen roots editor • September 19, 2018

The Plant Phenomics Symposium celebrated the installment of the new phenomics facility in Johnson Hall on Tuesday. The new phenocenter was secured through a grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust...

New nanoparticle technology by WSU researchers could help treat sepsis and other infectious diseases.

New way to deliver drugs to infection sites

HANNAH WELZBACKER, Evergreen reporter • September 19, 2018

Researchers at WSU have found a new way to fight sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response that can cause organ failure. Can Yang Zhang, a postdoctoral research associate in the Laboratory for Disease-Driven...

Application aims to keep online marketplaces safe, accountable

KYLE MOEN, Evergreen reporter • September 19, 2018

Two brothers have developed an app called Trader Rater that allows users to review online sellers and buyers in order to keep people accountable and safe. Users can go to the app to see if people on...

Rick Flores, United Greek Council president, talks about his conversation with Phi Gamma Delta President Max Hummer on Tuesday at Butch’s Den. He hoped the fraternity would make amends.

Fraternity faces backlash after culturally offensive video surfaces

ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen editor-in-chief • September 19, 2018

A video that showed members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, also known as Fiji, dressed in grass skirts followed by a #FIJIISLANDER2018 hashtag, was published on Twitter on Monday night. “It clearly...

Jason Gesser, pictured here at a Cougar Athletic Fund event in 2015, was the subject of an Office for Equal Opportunity inquiry in January 2018 regarding complaints of sexual misconduct.

Jason Gesser resigns amid new sexual misconduct allegations

IAN SMAY and DYLAN GREENE • September 18, 2018

Jason Gesser, the assistant director of athletics for the Cougar Athletic Fund, has resigned following new allegations of sexual misconduct by former WSU volleyball player Alyssa Wold. Gesser sent his...

Center for Civic Engagement employees hand out cupcakes and buttons for the CCE 25th Anniversary on Glen Terrell Mall on Monday.

Center for Civic Engagement celebrates 25 years

CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter • September 18, 2018

The Center for Civic Engagement held an event Monday on the Glenn Terrell Mall to celebrate the CCE’s 25th anniversary. Director Melanie Brown said CCE partners with community organizations so students...

Theta Chi loss of recognition means they can no longer participate in Greek life activities

Arrest made for Sunday arson at Theta Chi

RACHEL SUN, Evergreen Roots editor • September 17, 2018

A 19-year-old Cheney, Washington man has been arrested in connection with the Sunday morning fire at WSU’s Theta Chi fraternity that had multiple ignition points and left a back deck destroyed. Isaac...

WSU Professor Patricia Hunt discusses the harmful effects of BPA on long-term health, and says she hopes to study its effects in combination with other chemicals Friday in Biotechnology/Life Sciences Building.

BPA alternatives are also harmful, researcher says

HANNAH WELZBACKER, Evergreen reporter • September 17, 2018

WSU researchers have found that alternatives to the chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, are causing genetic abnormalities in mice. This discovery is not the first time Patricia Hunt, a professor...

Jarrick Wick discusses the return of the Cougar Safe Rides, formerly know as Womens Transit, Friday Wilson-Short Hall.

Safe Rides back again this fall

MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen roots editor • September 17, 2018

Cougar Safe Rides kicked off its fall season of operations Sept. 13. The program, previously known as Women’s Transit, offers rides to everyone Thursday nights from 8 p.m. to midnight, as well as...

Dean of College of Veterinary Medicine Bryan Slinker, left, and WSU President Kirk Schulz break ground on the Paul G. Allen Center for Global Animal Health during the dirt ceremony Saturday.

Animal health breaks ground for $61.9 million building

CARMEN JARAMILLO, Evergreen reporter • September 17, 2018

The Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health broke ground on a new $61.9 million building on Saturday. The addition to the Allen Center will be built on Olympia The Paul G. Allen School for Global...

Theta Chi Greek house suffers suspicious fires Sunday morning

IAN SMAY, Evergreen reporter • September 17, 2018

Investigators from both the Pullman Fire Department and Police Department called the cause of the Sunday morning fire that destroyed Theta Chi’s wooden deck “suspicious.” Firefighters found multiple...

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