WSU Tri-Cities – The Daily Evergreen

WSU researchers find way to use plastic as fuel

GABRIEL BRAVO, Evergreen reporter

July 3, 2019

WSU researchers in Tri-Cities have found a way to turn plastic waste into jet fuel. This new process could theoretically use 100 percent of plastic waste material to fuel power jets and semi-trucks. Plastics like grocery bags, water bottles, milk jugs or other low-density polyethylene materials (LDPE)...

Proposal could fund college of medicine

CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter

April 3, 2019

The Washington State Legislature has released plans in the 2019-2021 budget proposals for the expansion of the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL). WSU requested $14.4 million to pay for medical school operations for third- and fourth-year s...

Educators learn to teach computer science in K-12

ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen reporter

October 17, 2018

Members of the WSU Tri-Cities education department are taking computer science courses in hopes of acquiring certification to teach students in kindergarten through 12th grade about topics like computational thinking and how algorithms work. The initiative is still in its beginning stages, said Jonah...

Papermaking project helps students tell their stories

ANGELICA RELENTE, Evergreen reporter

October 17, 2018

Peace Paper Project will host papermaking workshops at WSU Tri-Cities to encourage students and community members to engage in a hands-on activity, which involves old pieces of fabric that holds significance to one’s life. The Peace Paper Project is an international organization of hand papermakers,...

Family, friends remember WSU student who died this summer

HANNAH WELZBACKER, Evergreen reporter

September 4, 2018

Feixiong Luo, a graduate student at WSU, remembers his childhood friend Yu’e Qing as a happy, outgoing and adventurous person. Qing, a WSU graduate student studying horticulture, was swept away by fast-moving waters in Mount Rainier National Park on July 25, 2018. Qing was supposed to hike in...

New art exhibit highlights selfishness

JULIA GOLAN, Evergreen reporter

August 21, 2018

A new exhibit at the WSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art features artwork from three different university faculty members that focus on selfishness. The new exhibit, titled “Self*ish”, explores societies’ obsessions with themselves. The artists worked with the theme, formation and depiction of...

Regents to vote on tuition, other increases

LINH NGUYEN, Evergreen reporter

March 1, 2018

During the first official 2018 meeting of the Board of Regents, WSU’s highest governing body, the board will vote on whether to approve a 2-percent increase in resident undergraduate tuition and a 2.4-percent increases for room and board in residence halls. If approved, tuition would increase $190...

Tri-Cities to delay spending cuts on campus

CODY COTTIER, Evergreen reporter

February 7, 2018

WSU Tri-Cities has begun to reduce its spending in accordance with the university’s 2.5 percent budget cuts, but administrators are waiting for the incoming chancellor to arrive before making recommendations to WSU President Kirk Schulz. Because of the transition in leadership, the campus is “in...

State gives millions for WSU construction

FORREST HOLT, Evergreen news editor

January 22, 2018

The Washington State Legislature approved just under $114 million for WSU construction and renovation projects Friday. The Pullman campus will directly see about $76 million, with two new buildings and renovations to add STEM teaching labs. The Board of Regents, WSU’s highest governing body,...

WSU chooses new Tri-Cities chancellor

REBECCA WHITE, Evergreen assistant news editor

January 10, 2018

WSU President Kirk Schulz made his pick for a new Tri-Cities campus chancellor over the winter break, choosing a former Colorado university dean to run the satellite campus. The new chancellor, Sandra Haynes, a senior administrator at Metropolitan State University of Denver, was one of four outside hire choi...

WSU Tri-Cities to create computer science endorsement

LINH NGUYEN, Evergreen reporter

November 14, 2017

Program to train next generation of teachers, students technology skills through workshops

Second batch of JFK files released

JESSICA ZHOU, Evergreen assistant news editor

November 6, 2017

Hundreds more documents related to former U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s assassination were released by the National Archives and Records Administration on Friday, after the initial release of over 2,800 documents on Oct. 26. Following the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection...