Washington State Magazine

Native American artist Ric Gendron discusses his portrait of Sherman Alexie. The portrait appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Washington State Magazine, as part of the feature article "Desperately Seeking Sherman." You can read the article here. ...
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 Not that many years ago Washington's legislature was covered by more than 30 journalists from around the state. Now that number is eight. The Seattle Times no longer has a bureau on the east side of Lake Washington, and a print Post-Intelligencer no longer exists. Who will give us information and investigation when the papers have all gone?Read "Paper Cuts" by Hannelore Sudermann in the Winter 2009 issue of Washington State Magazine.Click a...
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Bob Scarfo, an associate professor with Washington State University’s Interdisciplinary Design Institute, and his landscape architecture students explore the benefits of re-introducing passenger rail between Spokane and the Pullman/Moscow area in response to shifting global trends, particularly associated with energy, water and climate change.Presentations shown during the poster session of the symposium are accessed through links on the map below. (Hover over a station to reveal a document....
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Eugene Thrasher, a trained Washington State University Beach  Watcher with more than a thousand volunteer hours under his belt, has been digging and eating clams in Washington for half a century. Thrasher is the guy to ask if you want to learn how to find and dig a clam.Follow him through a clam dig at Penn Cove on Whidbey Island, and then learn about types of clams found in Washington. Finish up with a dose of Northwest icon Ivar Haglund singing "Acres of Clams."You can read more abo...
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A video of a model Power Augmented Ram Vehicle (PARV), a fast boat designed and built by Konstantin Matveev, an assistant professor in Washington State University’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and mechanical engineering students Zach Malhiot ’07, Ryan Soderlund ’08, and Alex Ockfen ’07 B.S., ’08 M.S.The fast boat is intended for transporting cargo and people on land, water, and especially snow....
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A time-lapse video of Garfield-Palouse High School students, with support from Washington State University, building an award-winning lift to heft farmers with disabilities into combines."Sean Neal is good at math, but one bit of geometry he can’t master involves moving ten feet up and two feet over. The wheelchair-bound teen isn’t able to climb into a combine to help harvest his family’s wheat fields. While Neal’s dad was carrying him up a ladder and helping him into the operator�...
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Watch a quick video tour of WSU in Second Life, followed by a few other locations around the virtual world: recreations of Tut's tomb and the Sistine Chapel, Nature magazine's cell reproduction, and the International Spaceflight Museum.Read the full story, "Virtually WSU."...
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Can trumpet players improve by changing the position of their feet and body? At Washington State University, honors student Leah Jordan and music professor David Turnbull measured trumpet students' breathing and playing to analyze the difference a change of posture can make."Anyone who has taken music lessons has probably absorbed enough instructions about posture to feel like a raw recruit at basic training: Stand straight! Head up! Toes forward!Leah Jordan, who is starting her senior ye...
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Click on an initial eruption height below to watch a predictive ash dispersion animation based on current atmospheric conditions.The Puff model is a volcanic ash tracking model developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It has been supported by University of Alaska Fairbanks and its Geophysical Institute, the Alaska Volcano Observatory, and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center. Click here to go directly to t...
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