Washington State Magazine

Although scientists have been aware of biological invasions at least since the mid-1800s, when Charles Darwin noted the rampant spread of European species in South America, only recently has the scientific community recognized the broader threat invaders pose to biodiversity and environmental quality. Richard Mack of Washington State University recalls that when he first started talking about the cheatgrass invasion at annual meetings of the Ecological Society of America (ESA), his presen...
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If you've read David Wang's essay "Meditations on a Strip Mall," you're already aware that, while it may not be controversial, New Urbanism enjoys less than universal favor among architects and/or urban planners.  So we offer three sources for information on the subject-one neutral, one that strongly advocates NU, and one that offers a trenchant criticism of NU's ability-or lack thereof-to create community.  We...
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Our DNA suffers damage all the time-from cosmic rays, exposure to chemicals, simple wear & tear-and is constantly being repaired. But when something goes wrong in the repair process, says WSU microbiologist Cynthia Haseltine, "bad things happen." Among the worst of those bad things is lymphoma, a cancer of white blood cells.In a series of four brief video clips produced by Adam Ratliff and Cherie Winner for Washington State Magazine Online, Haseltine describes how she's working to und...
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The state's greatest rivalry hit a landmark November 2007, when the 100th game in 108 years was played between Washington State University and the University of Washington. For a glimpse of our history, we dipped into WSU's archives and found photos, film, and colorful programs for this historic contest. See a touchdown from 1910 and film footage of a game in 1923. Check out the chilled cheerleaders of 1950 and the mustachioed players of 1970. And hear the Cougar fight song as you've neve...
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Walter (Steve) Sheppard is one busy man, flying his own plane around the Pacific Northwest to meet with beekeepers and deliver queen-breeding stock produced in his honey bee breeding program to beekeeper collaborators. He also travels to countries such as Kazakhstan to study populations of honey bees from wild apple forests that have the potential to be added to Washington State University breeding stock. Over the years, he and his students have bred bees to resist parasites and diseases,...
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Washington State Magazine has won a gold medal in the 2007 Circle of Excellence awards program of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, an international organization that promotes excellence in educational advancement through alumni relations, communications, marketing, and fund raising.WSM was one of 53 competitors in the category of periodical staff writing for external audiences and, along with Tufts Dental Medicine (Tufts University), was one of two gold award winners....
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Sitting at Rico's next to Frontline executive producer David Fanning was a defining moment for one Washington State University broadcasting student.Senior communication major Kate Yeager was among a small group of broadcast students who closed the bar with Fanning and Frontline producer Mike Kirk after the Murrow Symposium. Kate was playing host to the Edward R. Murrow Award recipients from the PBS investigative reporting program.The group discussed media, politics, and today's hottest iss...
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Horace Alexander Young finished his master's degree in music at Washington State University in 1983. He left to play jazz in venues around the world, including Germany and South Africa. The composer/performer/arranger returned to Pullman in 1998 to add another dimension to his musical life—teaching woodwinds and jazz studies to a new generation of students.Listen to a track from Young's latest CD, Acoustic Contemporary Jazz-"That...
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Todd Griffiths, a veterinary student at Washington State University, discovered vaulting in college. Since he was raised around horses and had studied gymnastics in high school, he found the sport of doing acrobatics atop a horse to be a perfect fit. In summer 2006, he joined the U.S. Vaulting Team and competed at the World Equestrian Games in Germany. Last October, he borrowed a horse from a local stable to show us some of his vaulting moves.View an exclusive video of Todd's gymnastics ...
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Ray Troll '81 is an all-around artist who paints, draws, and writes songs about fish and evolution. [Read more]  Don't miss his interactive Web site, TrollArt.com.  It has art, history, shopping through his gallery, details about his exhibits, an "evolvovision", and links to Ray's artist friends, science news, and "fishy stuff." You can also find Ray-related information at the ...
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