A WSU broadcast journalism alumnus is currently covering the current conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a freelance journalist.  Zach Anders, 26, said Hamas is a terrorist army held up inside...

Demetre and Lindsey Makratzakis met in 2016 while they were undergraduates at WSU. Six years later, they got engaged. The couple said they met on Tinder. Lindsey said her roommate had put her onto the...

Unkle Drew’z Sauces started as a sauce that was loved by family and friends and used on meat, seafood and even salad. This family always dreamed of one day selling the sauce, and eventually, that dream...

This fall, the WSU community suffered a great loss. As a DJ, writer, radio host and more, Jose “DJ Luvva J” Salvador Gutierrez, Jr., was well known up and down I-5 and in the Coug Community. As...

A lot of people have generations of family members who attend the same college. That is exactly the case for WSU alumni Peg and Roger Johnson, who have four generations of Cougars in the family. Peg...

Andressa Smith, Johnson & Johnson director of licensing, is a WSU alum working in cancer research to determine new and effective therapies. Smith said she is the person who makes the calls when...

WSU alumni Tom and Linda Nihoul recently donated $250,000 to Pullman Regional Hospital to help fund the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program. PRH’s fundraising...

The annual #CougsGive Day of Giving April 14 brought in over $700,000, a new benchmark from the previous giving average of $400,000-$450,000. The event began in 2015 as a way to raise money for the university...

This past March, WSU introduced Cougar Cage, a Shark-Tank-style funding program. The program allows WSU students and faculty members to apply for one-time funding for their research projects.  Funding...

WSU parents and students have mixed feelings about President Joe Biden’s proposed student loan forgiveness plan.   Biden’s plan includes canceling $10,000 in direct federal student loans....

What once started as a senior engineering project for a WSU alumnus grew into a years-long effort to build a school in Africa. Andrew Stephenson attended WSU from 2011-17. He said he began his freshman...

A WSU alumna will be releasing a book next month about her journey to becoming a millionaire as a first-generation student and former waitress. Jamie Kern Lima, entrepreneur and co-founder of IT Cosmetics,...