Piper, a therapy dog, with students at Washington State University. (Credit: WSU Photo Services) Listen (Runtime :57) Read College students who spent time with therapy dogs on campus were less […]Read More
Lisa Keohokalole Schauer, left, Washington State University Board of Regents chair, listens to Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell speak as the newly appointed WSU president Thursday at a regents meeting in Pullman. […]Read More
Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called “Dr. Christmas Tree,” shows Trojan and other fir seedlings at the school’s Puyallup Research and Extension Center on Nov. 30, 2023, in […]Read More
The sunlight glints across Sunflare apples ripening on a branch at WSU’s research orchard near Wenatchee, Washington, in late summer 2024. (Credit: Jeremy Tamsen / WSU) Listen (Runtime :45) Read […]Read More
This report is a collaborative effort of a Murrow College of Communication journalism class. Students were asked to report on individual attitudes towards the 2024 election. This story is the result of more than 30 on-campus interviews and hours of collaboration and research.Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN (Murrow News 8) – With many students experiencing food insecurity, Washington State University’s food pantry, located on the first floor of the Compton Union Building […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University has seen an increase in the total number of confirmed whooping cough cases on campus. The new total currently sits […]Read More
How pumped storage hydropower works with an upper and lower reservoir. (Credit: Tennessee Valley Authority) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read Washington state wants to learn more about an old type of […]Read More
The new WA 64 apple growing on trees at a WSU orchard in Quincy, Washington. The trees are bred to be shorter and denser to produce more fruit. (Credit: Washington […]Read More
A field of WSU’s new variety, Bush wheat, growing near Lynden, Washington. (Credit: Washington State University) Listen (Runtime 1:05) Read Editor’s Note: Northwest Public Broadcasting acknowledges that all of what’s […]Read More
A Cougar statue at Washington State University in Pullman. A real-life cougar is suspected of killing several spring lambs at WSU this week. Officials are warning students, staff and faculty […]Read More
Students in the Inland Northwest this week joined growing antiwar protests at schools across the country.Read More
Yakama Nation aviary biologists Michael Beckler (left) and Alyssa Woodward pose for a photo with Yakama Nation Tribal Council member Terry Heemsah (center) as Washington State University wildlife veterinarian Dr. […]Read More
At academic institutions nationwide, student workers continue to organize, and this week, those at Washington State University got a big win.
The Coalition of Academic Student Employees has ratified its first union contract. With the agreement, student employees will get paid vacation for the first time, as well as earn six weeks of paid parental leave. Read More
Members of the Washington State University Coalition of Student Employees (WSU-CASE) Held rallies in the snow at WSU campuses throughout the state on Wednesday, January 17, 2023. (Credit: Jen Acker […]Read More
Members of the Washington State University Coalition of Academic Student Employees (WSU-CASE) hold a rally on the Pullman campus on September 27, 2023. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime […]Read More
Gary Chastagner, a Washington State University professor called “Dr. Christmas Tree” shows an example of a less-desirable tree due to fewer top branches, grown in a small plantation of Turkish […]Read More
WSU students staged a sit-in at Chancellor Elizabeth Chilton’s office on Monday, December 4, 2023. The table is meant to symbolize the students bringing the bargaining table to Chilton and […]Read More
Unionized Washington State University student workers rally on the Pullman campus on September 27, 2023. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:00) Read As unionized Washington State University workers […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories Colfax, Wash. – Actions speak louder than words. Whitman County Superior Court Judge Gary Libey offered that simple reasoning at the end of a 2-hour, 47-minute […]Read More
Researchers at Washington State University found that over 41 percent of American women between the ages of 15 and 49 don’t have access to an abortion provider within a 30-minute drive. Read More
Members of the Academic Student Employees union gather to give speeches on the Pullman campus on Wednesday, September 27, 2023. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :59) Read Hundreds […]Read More
The Academic Student Employees (ASE) union at Washington State University has filed a complaint of unfair labor practices against the university, alleging WSU’s unwillingness to bargain with the collective in good faith. Read More
WSU students Reanna Liebl and Christina Flynn order ice cream at Ferdinand’s on the Pullman campus. (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime 1:30) Read Known for its student-made ice […]Read More
File photo of solar panels. (Credit: Sarah Swenty / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Listen (Runtime 1:01) Read Not everyone loves renewable energy development, but a new project in Washington […]Read More
Graduate students Geraldine Diverres and Bernadette Gagnier examine grapevines leaves at the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension of Washington State University, Wednesday, June 23, 2021 in Prosser, Washington. (Credit: Bob […]Read More
A new test that uses just a drop of blood could help more people get tested and treated for a common, and frequently undetected, sexually transmitted infection. Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. (Murrow News 8) – WSU Police are investigating the death of a “college-aged” male after finding a body early Thursday morning on campus. According […]Read More
Dolores Huerta spoke about her years of activism at the WSU Pullman campus April 3. (Credit: College Assistance Migrant Program) Listen (Runtime 1:07) Read Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta spoke […]Read More
After almost a decade of groundwork, Pullman Regional Hospital will welcome its first three family medicine residents this June.Read More
When medical students or health care providers enter a simulation at the Center for Native American Health at Washington State University’s Spokane campus, they’re running through a situation that already happened to a Native American patient who faced real-world health consequences.Read More
Washington State University sign on the Pullman campus. (Courtesy: WSU) Listen (Runtime :47) Read Luke Tyler, a Washington State University student, was found dead at a residence hall on the […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. (Murrow News 8) – After coming back from winter break, many WSU students are excited to get back to their independent lives and homes, […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN (Murrow News 8) – With Veterans Day only two sleeps away, many students around campus are already making plans for how they will spend their […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories As students come back to Pullman, public health officials worry that monkeypox has come with them. “We did see it arrive here in Washington State, and […]Read More
Nancy Mack Nancy Mack, (née Stack) as a student reporter at KWSU-AM KWSU Radio & TV Alumna Nancy Mack, (née Stack) was one of only three women specializing in radio […]Read More
Dale Harrison Dale Harrison during his time as Morning Edition Producer. Former Producer & News Director Dale Harrison spent his career dedicated to public broadcasting, working at NWPB in Pullman, […]Read More
In 1988, while working in Ohio, a molecular biology researcher’s work got destroyed. Pat Hunt was working in a lab testing estrogen levels on mice. While cleaning the plastic mouse cages, a temporary worker grabbed the wrong detergent.Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, WASH – A Washington State University spokesman says university president Kirk Schulz is not interested in leaving for the Big 12. This, a day after […]Read More
Washington State University has received one of its largest ever gifts. The 20-million dollar gift from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and its founders Edmund and Beatriz Schweitzer was directed to WSU’s Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, WASH – WSU students parking on campus may be paying more for their spots soon. The WSU Parking and Transportation Task Force want to increase […]Read More
Washington State University will not require masks during indoor intramural sports this spring. Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, WASH – Downtown Pullman could be seeing a new Starbucks location in the near future. Forza Development LLC, wants to demolish the former Oasis Teriyaki […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. – Courtney Crabtree is enjoying her senior year and final semester at Washington State University, finally in person after nearly two years. But she’s […]Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN, Wash. – Long before Beasley Coliseum and Martin Stadium, there has always been Bohler Gym, nestled in the heart of Washington State University. Bohler Gym […]Read More
Anthropology research at Washington State University is helping the Kalispel Tribe bring traditional foods back to its community.Read More
A new policy at Washington State University is breaking ground for its requirement that the university consult, and gain consent from tribal groups impacted by university research, infrastructure projects and other activities that affect them.Read More
What if I told you that the road to the Tour de France ran through Pullman? Well, for WSU student Chris Dugan, it does. He’s been racing for well over […]Read More
Although students at Washington State University returned to campus this fall, technology and many of the remote teaching strategies used during the pandemic are likely here to stay.Read More
A Washington State University research team has received a $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a fellowship to cross-train eight graduate doctoral students in artificial intelligence, data science and engineering.Read More
