Technology to lower inflammation, may help COVID-19 patients
CHERYL AARNIO, Evergreen reporter
May 26, 2020
WSU professor Santanu Bose has discovered a protein that, when some of its function is reduced, may help stop patients who are dying from pneumonia caused by COVID-19. The A9 protein causes inflammation. Some inflammation is good for the body, but in the case of a respiratory virus like COVID-19, to...
Town hall prepares for increase in on-site research
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
May 20, 2020
WSU research officials held a town hall Tuesday to solicit feedback on draft guidelines for research, scholarship and creative activities, which will allow on-site activities, like lab or office work, to gradually increase. The goals of the new guidelines are to protect the health and well-being o...
New laboratory signage program available for WSU labs
BRADLEY GAMBLE, Evergreen reporter
April 27, 2020
WSU Faculty Operations and WSU Environmental Health and Safety worked together on a new signage program to improve human health and research for WSU laboratories. According to the laboratory safety website, the main goals of the signage program are to protect human health and safety as well as protect research. This includes identifying ...
‘Cancer therapy is a heartbreaker’
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
April 24, 2020
Researchers in the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at WSU Spokane recently pinpointed a protein that plays a critical role in heart damage caused by chemotherapy drugs. Zhaokang Cheng, assistant professor and senior author on the study, said cancer treatments have improved a lot in the past se...
Vulnerability index examines factors contributing to COVID-19
EMMA LEDBETTER, Evergreen reporter
April 16, 2020
WSU researchers at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane developed a vulnerability index that shows which areas in Washington state are particularly at risk for COVID-19. Pablo Monsivais, associate professor in the WSU Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology and researcher in ...
Second provost candidate presents to university community
JAKOB THORINGTON, Evergreen reporter
April 15, 2020
The second presentation during WSU’s provost search featured a variety of color-coordinated maps from a geography professor seeking to become the university’s next provost. “As a geographer I felt I had to throw in at least one or two maps in,” provost candidate Robert McMaster said. M...
OPINION: Research should be available to all
JACOB HERSH, Evergreen columnist
April 8, 2020
Research is meant to be shared. For multi-billion-dollar corporations to lock scientific, sociological and historical knowledge behind a paywall, and demand as much as $50 to $100 for the rights to read a research paper, written by a hard working graduate student, is not only unfair, it’s immoral....
Study finds depression in rural mothers affects the whole family
MADYSEN MCLAIN, Evergreen reporter
March 30, 2020
A 30-year-long study led by a WSU researcher found low-income mothers in rural areas who face depression are more likely to experience other health problems, as well as distrust their doctors. Yoshie Sano, WSU Vancouver Human Development associate professor, leads the Rural Families Speak project, ...
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