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Washington State University

April 12, 2024

Not to be confused with University of Washington.
This article is about the flagship campus in Pullman. For the university system, see Washington State University System.

Washington State University (WSU) (or colloquially and informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant universities in the American West.[7] With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581,[8] it is the second largest institution for higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington.[9] It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[10]

Washington State University
Former names
Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Washington (1890–1905)
State College of Washington (1905–1959)
TypePublic land-grant research university
EstablishedMarch 28, 1890; 134 years ago (1890-03-28)
AccreditationNWCCU
Academic affiliation
Endowment$1.29 billion (2021)[2]
PresidentKirk Schulz[3]
Academic staff
2,261
Students31,471 – (Total)
  20,976 – (Pullman)
  1,685 – (Spokane)
  1,813 – (Tri-Cities)
  283 – (Everett)
  3,585 – (Vancouver)
  3,265 – (Global Campus/WSU Online)[4]
Undergraduates26,062 – (Total)
  18,346 – (Pullman)
  534 – (Spokane)
  1,603 – (Tri-Cities)
  3,170 – (Vancouver)
  283 – (Everett)[4]
Postgraduates4,262 – (Total)[4]
1283 – (Total)[4]
Location
Pullman
,
Washington
,
United States

46°44′N 117°10′W / 46.73°N 117.16°W / 46.73; -117.16
CampusDistant town[5], 1,742 acres (7.05 km2)
Other campuses
NewspaperThe Daily Evergreen
ColorsCrimson and gray[6]
   
NicknameCougars
Sporting affiliations
MascotButch T. Cougar
Websitewww.wsu.edu
Aerial view of the campus

The WSU Pullman campus stands on a hill and is characterized by open spaces and a red brick and basalt material palette—materials originally found on site. The university sits within the rolling topography of the Palouse in rural eastern Washington and remains closely connected to the town and the region.[11] The university also operates campuses across Washington at WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, and WSU Vancouver, all founded in 1989. In 2012, WSU launched an Internet-based Global Campus,[12] which includes its online degree program, WSU Online. In 2015, WSU expanded to a sixth campus at WSU Everett. These campuses award primarily bachelor's and master's degrees. Freshmen and sophomores were first admitted to the Vancouver campus in 2006 and to the Tri-Cities campus in 2007.

WSU's athletic teams are called the Cougars and the school colors are crimson and gray. Six men's and nine women's varsity teams compete in NCAA Division I in the Pac-12 Conference. Both men's and women's indoor track teams compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

History edit

Agricultural College, Experiment Station, and School of Science edit

 
View of the Palouse at Steptoe Butte

In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862 into law, allowing for the creation of land-grant colleges “to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts ...in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." The Hatch Act of 1887 expanded on the Morrill Act, providing federal funds for the establishment of agriculture experiment stations at land-grant colleges. Shortly after attaining statehood on November 11, 1889, the Washington State Legislature began taking steps to claim a land-grant college, and fewer than five months later on March 28, 1890, passed House Bill 90 for the creation of the Agricultural College, Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Washington. Governor Elisha P. Ferry signed the bill into law a few days later.[13] Soon after, a second act of legislature expanded the school's educational mission to include general arts and sciences. The university and the experiment station would aid enterprise by improving farm management, conducting research, and teaching the skills needed to be better farmers.[14] WSU's role as a statewide institution became clear in 1894 with the launch of its first agricultural experiment station west of the Cascade Mountains near Puyallup.[15]

 
 
Washington State University
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Location in Washington

According to the legislation, the site of the land-grant college was to be determined by a three-member committee appointed by the governor, but it stipulated that the site must be located in the southeast corner of the state. After an exhaustive examination of bidding towns such as Yakima and other towns in the Palouse region, the state's new land-grant college opened to 59 students in Pullman on January 13, 1892, offering three major courses of study: agriculture, engineering, and domestic science.[13] Pullman was possibly selected because of a generous land gift by the city and its railroad connections to Spokane and Portland, Oregon. A five-member Board of Regents was appointed with George W. Lilley acting as the school's first President.[13]

The school started out with a faculty of five, with a student-body largely consisting of children from the surrounding community, who, if they were residents of Washington would have attended tuition-free. The year 1897 saw the first graduating class of seven men and women.[16]

The Bryan years edit

Enoch Albert Bryan, appointed July 22, 1893, and serving for 22 years, was the first influential president of WSU and considered by many as the true founder of the university.[13] Bryan previously served as the president of Vincennes University in Indiana and was an alumnus of Indiana University and held a graduate degree from Harvard. When Bryan learned he was nominated for the presidency by a friend in Oregon, he had never even heard of the college. Before Bryan's arrival, the fledgling university suffered through significant organizational instability. Under Bryan's term as president, the curriculum included both a practical and liberal arts component, where chemistry, mathematics as well as history, English literature and two foreign languages were core courses, required for graduation regardless of major.[13] Under Bryan, music and art held importance too, in 1905 he gained the approval of the Board of Regents for a School of Music. Bryan guided the college toward respectability and is arguably the most influential figure in the university's history. The landmark clock tower in the center of campus is his namesake. As the college approached the end of its first decade of existence, Bryan and others tried to garner the necessary support to change the name of the school, which resulted in the introduction of a bill to change the school name to “Washington State College” in 1899. This and similar efforts in 1901 and 1903 were defeated with strong opposition for attempting to create another state university which would undermine the clout of the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. However, in 1905 the school was finally able to officially change its name to the “State College of Washington” or more informally as Washington State College (WSC).[13]

Washington State College edit

Ernest O. Holland succeeded Enoch Bryan as President of the Washington State College in 1915.[13] That same year, a close friend of his whom he shared a room with while studying at Columbia University, Henry Suzzallo, became the President of the University of Washington. Holland's early years as president and friendship with Suzzallo were challenged during his tenure as president. In 1909, the institutional rivalry between WSC and UW worsened when state legislators, the majority of which held seats in western Washington, were dismayed to find a foreign language department, an English Department headed by a Harvard-educated PhD, a school of architecture, and many departments with graduate students. The legislative committee promptly advised demoting the college to “trade school” status, an idea which Suzzallo supported.[13] Suzzallo penned a letter to Holland promising to make WSC “the greatest school of agriculture in the world” only if Holland agreed to abandon all other disciplines to UW; Suzzallo's proposal specifically sought to shut down WSC's schools of architecture and pharmacy.[13] After years of wrangling, the Washington legislature decided against limiting the academic mission and scope of WSC.[13] The two presidents and their respective institutions continued to have a row over curriculum and state appropriations until Suzzallo was relieved of his position in 1926 due to the influence of Washington governor, Roland H. Hartley.[13] In trying to outdo his former peer at UW, Holland wanted to build a library that rivaled the grandness of the newly built library at UW that bears Suzzallo's name. Funding for the Holland Library was delayed by the state however until 1950.

 
Thompson and Bryan Halls in 1925

Budgetary woes hit WSC in the Great Depression years starting in the 1930s. The budget, faculty, salaries, and enrollment slumped dramatically. Enrollment didn't reach pre-Depression levels until 1936 and salaries until 1937 in nominal terms.[13] With the start of World War II, the Washington State College was contracted by the War Department to house and train the Army Signal Corps where they were given pre-flight school training and lessons in Japanese language. The college hosted as many as 1,900 military personnel in the vacated dormitories and fraternities.[17] It was during this time in 1944 however, when WSC saw the exciting introduction of the Cougar Gold brand of sharp white cheddar cheese from the campus creamery. The cheese was developed and gets its namesake from dairy bacteriologist Dr. N.S. Golding who was studying molds for cheese production.[17] After the war ended and the passing of the G.I. Bill, the college went from having virtually no men on campus to being inundated with them. The school had to scramble to accommodate the former servicemen by buying migrant housing and using temporary housing units provided by the federal government.[17] The campus became so crowded, that President Wilson Compton mulled over moving the college to Spokane, but, in 1947, he ultimately determined that it would be impractical.

Washington State University edit

On September 1, 1959, the state legislature passed a bill unopposed that officially changed the name to Washington State University.[17][18][19] The maturing university partly owed the success of this to the establishment of the WSU Honors College, which is one of the oldest in the nation and a highly respected university program for gifted students.[17] The university joined the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1962, which included the University of Washington, and four other universities in California at the time.[17] In an effort to improve the graduate program and research credentials of WSU, a low-grade nuclear reactor was constructed, funded by Atomic Energy Commission grants, and new doctoral programs were introduced.

By the 1970s, WSU's enrollment quadrupled from its level in the 1940s to 14,000 students with an influx from the Baby Boom Generation. President Glenn Terrell took steps to increase funding for undergraduate and graduate education amid the nationwide recession of the mid-1970s. Terrell didn't make any major cuts to the athletics department however, which didn't go unnoticed and was a cause for anger about his leadership among some of the faculty.[17]

State-wide university edit

Beginning with the start of Samuel H. Smith’s term as president in 1985, marked a large period of growth for WSU. In 1989, WSU gained branch campuses in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver with established extension offices and research centers in all regions of the state, with facilities in Prosser and Wenatchee.[17][20] Smith proved to be a consummate fundraiser, with about $760 million raised during his term, thanks in some part to Microsoft co-founder and alumnus Paul Allen.[17] In the 1990s Smith began to clamp down and take action regarding student alcohol abuse and disciplinary issues after some high-profile incidents on campus in an effort to improve the university's image. The efforts seemed to have paid off when WSU lost its rank and was completely excluded from The Princeton Review’s party school list in August 2000.[17] Improving the quality of education was the defining goal of the university under V. Lane Rawlins, who raised admission requirements and sought to improve the academic profile of the school with improved curricula and research facilities. After Rawlins retired in 2006, Elson Floyd succeeded him as president. Under Floyd's leadership, increasing the diversity of the student body and continuing to raise the stature and reach of the university were a focus. In his eight years as president, WSU enrollment figures went up by 17 percent, including a 12.5 percent increase in the number of students of color, the amount of research grants awarded to WSU tripled to $600 million a year, and he led expansions in all of WSU's branch campuses-most notably successfully campaigning for the creation of the public medical school that now bears his name at WSU - Spokane, the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.[21] The second public medical school in Washington, and only one of three in the state, is seen as key to the university's organizational mission as a state land-grant university and its ambitions as a research university. Created five years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2015, the medical school's goal is to alleviate a physician shortage in rural and eastern Washington using a community-based approach.[22] The med school is said to be a key component in the university's new research-focused $1.5 billion Drive to 25 campaign under President Kirk Schulz, which seeks to make WSU among the nations top 25 public research universities by 2030.[23] The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine achieved full accreditation in June 2021.[24]

Campus edit

 
WSU campus from the northwest

The Pullman campus of Washington State University is 620 acres (2.5 km2) and is in the Palouse region. The average elevation of the campus is approximately 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level, and is seven miles (11 km) west of the Idaho border and Moscow, home of the University of Idaho, also a land-grant institution. The university communities are connected by Highway 270 and the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail.

The Palouse is defined by its unique rolling hills that were created by wind-blown soil, which supports one of the world's most productive dry-land agricultural regions. The main crops are wheat, peas, barley, and lentils. Evenings are often highlighted by a spectacular blue-pink sunset, which the first Board of Regents decided to use as the college's colors (later changed to the current crimson and gray colors). Perched atop College Hill (one of the four main hills in Pullman), the campus overlooks downtown Pullman.

Built environment edit

 
Thompson Hall (1894), known as the Administration Building
until renamed in 1972[25]

Campus architecture is diverse, but its prevailing image is perhaps best characterized by a handful of red-brick buildings in the older campus core designed in a neo-Georgian or Renaissance Revival mode, many of which were constructed between the world wars.[26] Yet WSU was hardly immune to modernist, "international style" trends of the post-World War II period, and features some notable examples of the type, particularly the Regents Hill dormitory complex, designed by Paul Thiry, on the north side of campus. By the 1990s, the university began to encourage eye-catching designs, including a 1994 addition to the old Holland Library (now called Terrell Library), by the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership (now ZGF Architects LLP) with a curving sweep of windows and a cone-shaped skylight above its atrium; an amenity-filled recreation center with a massive Jacuzzi and fireplace in 2001; and the Samuel H. Smith Center for Undergraduate Education, or "CUE," named for WSU president Smith, who served from 1985 to 2000. The latter two buildings were designed by Yost Grube Hall of Portland.

The busiest part of campus is the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall, referred to as "the mall" by students. This walkway, which prior to the 1970s was a road with parking available along the sides, was named after Terrell, WSU's president from 1967 to 1985. His secretary was known to set meetings ten minutes behind schedule to make up for the time he would spend talking to students along the way. The library complex (Terrell and Holland Libraries), the student union (Compton Union Building),[27] and three academic buildings surround the mall. The new crimson-colored cube that distinguishes the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art opened in the spring of 2018, just across from the club seating entrance to the football stadium.

 
Stadium Way

The football venue, Martin Stadium, named after Governor Clarence D. Martin,[28] also figures prominently on campus. It is situated near the geographical center of the campus with the south grandstands built into the Hill (the Information Technology building is part of the south grandstands), and Terrell Library and the Vogel Plant BioSciences buildings overlooking the west and east ends, respectively. Football has been played here since 1895, first as Soldier Field, later renamed Rogers Field, rebuilt in 1936. After a fire to the main wooden grandstand in 1970,[29][30] it was replaced with Martin Stadium, which opened 52 years ago in 1972.[31] Even though it is the smallest in the Pac-12, it offers the most seating to students in the conference. After the 2006 season, Martin Stadium went under a massive renovation to expand the seating capacity and offer greater amenities for players and spectators, as well as made improvements to the general facilities such as bathrooms and concession stands. The Cougar Football Project is the proposed renovation of Martin Stadium that consists of two separate projects. The first project, called the Southside Project,[32] would replace the old press box on the south stands with a new structure that includes a new press box, club seats, loge boxes, luxury suites and a club room. The Southside Project is now finished and was completed in November 2012. The second project, originally called the "West End-Zone Project" and now the Football Operations Building, provides a home for the Cougar football program, and includes new weight, locker, equipment. and training rooms for players, in addition to meeting rooms and coaches' offices. It also features a WSU Football heritage area along the west side and a game-day home for Gray W former letter winners.[citation needed]

 
Bryan Hall (1909),[25]
with landmark clock tower

Other notable buildings include Thompson Hall (1895), Stevens Hall (1896), the Math Learning Annex (1908), and Bryan Hall (1909),[33] the university's oldest surviving buildings which help enclose a sloping quadrangle featuring the "Lowell Elm," a large American Elm (Ulmus americana) brought from Elmwood in 1893 by Harriet Bryan, wife of newly appointed president Bryan.[34][35] Thompson Hall, with its distinctive turrets and its resemblance to a chateau in the Loire Valley of France, was the original administration building, and "Administration Building" is still carved above the original west-facing entrance. Today, Thompson Hall is home to the foreign language department and also provides the administrative offices for the College of Arts and Sciences. Bryan Hall is perhaps the most noticeable building on campus, with its tall four-sided tower enclosing a carillon and displaying a clock that lights up neon-red in the evening. Stevens Hall, to Bryan Hall's northwest, is reputed to be the oldest surviving all-women's dormitory west of the Mississippi. Stevens Hall and Thompson Hall are on the National Register of Historic Places, and both were designed by the Seattle firm of Stephen & Josenhans.[25]

Also significant are the Lewis Alumni Centre and the Webster Physical Science Building. The alumni center is an old beef cattle barn dating from the 1920s that was thoroughly transformed in the 1980s into event space and offices for the WSU Alumni Association. Rooms in the alumni center include the Board of Regents' Boardroom, Lighty Library, the Athletics Hall of Fame, the Alumni Presidents' Room, and the "Great Hall" for large social events on the second floor. Webster Hall, completed in 1974 and designed by the Seattle-based architectural firm of Naramore, Bain, Brady, and Johanson (NBBJ) is the tallest building on campus with twelve above-ground floors of offices and an expansive view of the region from a lounge on the northwest side of the top floor.

From 1911 to 1923, Rudolph Weaver was the first chairman of the architecture department. He designed seven buildings on the WSU campus, including:[36]

Residential campus edit

 
Stimson Hall (1922)[25]

WSU is a residential campus. Many freshmen live in residence halls, while some live in fraternity and sorority houses or in off-campus housing. After their first year, many students move to apartments, several owned by WSU. Most apartments are less than 1⁄2-mile (0.8 km) from campus. Off-campus housing is popularly divided into two sections that are commonly known by students as College Hill and "Apartment Land." College Hill houses many members of the Greek community who no longer live-in their fraternity/sorority houses, and are commonly known as "live-outs".

Residence halls edit

A number of the residence halls are co-ed, but there are single-gender living environments as well as a variety of other living options that include age-restricted housing, a mix of domestic and international students, and a global learning community. All of the residence halls, except for McEachern, are part of the RHA (Residence Hall Association).

Residence halls on campus include:

  • The Hill Halls: Community/Duncan-Dunn, Elmina White Honors Hall, McCroskey, Wilmer-Davis and Stevens
  • The Northside Halls: Regents Hill, Scott/Coman, Streit-Perham, Northside, and Global Scholars
  • Southside Halls: Stimson, Waller, Gannon-Goldsworthy, Rogers, Orton, McEachern, and Olympia
  • The Stephenson Residential Complex: Stephenson East, Stephenson North and Stephenson South

Each hall has its own government which organizes events, manages its budget, and acts as a forum for student involvement. These halls range in size from the exclusive Stevens Hall (approximately 70 residents), to the massive Stephenson Complex (approximately 1200 residents total). The highlight of the year for the residence halls is often Homecoming Week when the residence halls, off-campus students, and Greeks compete in various events. Events such as the chariot race determine the winner of Homecoming Week. In the past decade, the winner of Homecoming Week has most often been a residence hall team.

Greek life edit

There are currently 27 fraternities in the Interfraternity Council, 14 sororities in the Panhellenic Council, 14 fraternities and sororities in the United Greek Association, and 10 fraternities and sororities in the National Panhellenic Council at Washington State University. There are 26 primarily residential fraternities and 14 primary residential sororities that are located on College Hill.[45] Kappa Sigma is the oldest national fraternity at WSU with a founding date in 1909 and Alpha Delta Pi was the first sorority at WSU with a founding date in 1912.[46] The average chapter size of the community organizations is 64 members.[47] Between 25 and 30 percent of undergraduate students are in the Greek community annually.[48] Greek affiliates have the highest GPA on WSU's campus, averaging 3.2 for sorority women and 2.97 for fraternity men based on figures from Spring 2018.[49] Individuals join chapters by going through recruitment, often a week at the beginning of one or both semesters where chapter members hold events to meet potential new members. Washington State University has a zero tolerance policy on hazing both potential new members and current members. Each year Greek chapters submit 6 Pillars of Excellence, each pillar representing a value of Greek Life at WSU, and do reports at the end of the year as a self-evaluation for each chapter. Washington State University "recognizes the right of each fraternity and sorority to create policies and regulations of internal governance, as long as said policies do not conflict with those described in this document or any of its appendices."[50]

College Hill edit

Greek Row is situated on College Hill just downhill from Bryan Hall and the Hill Halls (the historic single-gender dormitories) on the WSU campus, and among the homes of faculty, Greek live-outs, and apartment buildings. The Greek Row and College Hill area is a diverse community of students, faculty members, and families. College Hill is also home to the President of WSU, Kirk Schulz. College Hill is supported by The College Hill Association, whose mission envisions a vibrant, diverse, and improving community that welcomes all residents and values the historic character of the neighborhood. Restaurants, thrift stores and various bars line Colorado Street, the main street on College Hill. The bars on College Hill include Cougar Cottage (informally, the Coug), currently in its 90th year of operation, Valhalla (informally, V-Hall), and The Emporium; all boast a large number of customers on the weekends as well as many themed weekdays.

Recreation and the outdoors edit

The university has the 160,000-square-foot (15,000 m2) Student Recreation Center (SRC), which was the largest student recreation center in the United States when it was opened in 2001.[51] The SRC contains a 1⁄8-mile (0.2 km) elevated indoor track, four basketball courts, two volleyball courts, roller hockey rink, four racquetball courts, swimming pool, 50-person Jacuzzi, free weights, weight machines, cardio equipment, exercise instruction rooms, outdoor sand volleyball courts, and a low to high ropes course. The campus also has several other basketball courts, dance rooms, a climbing wall, and the Outdoor Recreation Center where students can check out equipment or register for various events and trips. The seven-mile (11 km) Bill Chipman Palouse Trail links Pullman with Moscow and links to the Latah Trail to Troy, 22 miles (35 km) from WSU. Another bike trail wraps around the Pullman campus (about eight miles or 13 kilometres long). The school has an intramural program, and club sports are also very popular on campus. The university also has The Chinook, a 69,000 square foot space designed for students. It features fitness facilities, study spaces, social spaces for events, and Freshens Fresh Food Studio.

The campus added a 7,305-yard (6,680 m) championship golf course in 2008; Palouse Ridge, a $12.3 million project, opened on August 29. It intends to improve the school's golf teams, provide a laboratory for students in turf grass courses, and give boosters and alumni a new reason to visit the campus. From the back tees (Crimson), the course rating is 75.9 with a slope rating of 140.[52] It replaces a sub-standard 9-hole course that was built in 1923 and was mostly unimproved. It closed in 2006 for the redesign to create Palouse Ridge, on the same site and adjacent land. The UI Golf Course in Moscow also offers student rates. It opened in 1937 and added its second nine in 1970; the back tees are at 6,637 yards (6,069 m), with a course rating of 72.4 and a slope rating of 135.[53]

Within 35 miles (56 km), many students have the option to hike at Kamiak Butte and Steptoe Butte. Moscow Mountain, at 4,983 feet (1,519 m) in the Palouse Range in Idaho, provides opportunities for hiking and mountain biking. For aquatic adventures, students can cliff jump or boat at the Snake River. Farther out, white-river rafting, downhill skiing, and hiking in the nearby foothills of the Rocky Mountains are available. WSU formerly operated its own alpine ski area in Idaho, the North-South Ski Bowl, which was sold in the early 1980s.

Arboretum and Botanical Garden edit

The WSU Arboretum Committee continues to develop an Arboretum and Botanical Garden on a hilltop adjacent to the Lewis Alumni Center. In addition, about 95 acres (38 ha) on the east edge of campus has been identified for a more expansive Arboretum and Botanical Garden, including a wildlife center.[54] Students interested in contributing to the development of the WSU Arboretum are working with the Native Plant & Landscape Restoration Nursery to help establish tree plantings, future habitat restoration sites, or native plant displays that may be part of a campus green belt design.

Environmental record and sustainability initiatives edit

Energy use on campus edit

WSU has one LEED-silver certified building on campus, and two more buildings that meet LEED-silver standards but are not certified. The university has also encouraged the use of energy efficient lighting, energy management systems, and insulating steam lines, to reduce wasted power.[55]

Energy profile edit

WSU's energy is generated in part by an on-campus steam plant, powered by natural gas with diesel fuel back-up. This accounts for 38% of carbon emissions, or 53,922 metric tonnes eCO2 out of 136,166 metric tons total. The remaining carbon emissions is predominantly the result of purchased electricity (52%), with less than 10% the result of commuting, air travel, refrigerant leaks, and waste incineration.[56] The university has committed to lowering carbon emissions 36% below 2005 levels by 2035, though thus far emission levels have remained relatively flat.[57]

WSU is active in clean energy research,[58] though the campus does not currently have any renewable energy installations.[55]

Energy investments edit

WSU does not currently commit to establishing a committee or policy that supports climate and sustainability shareholder proposals at companies where the endowment funds are invested.[59] The university is exploring investing in renewable energy, but otherwise is focused on optimizing investment returns. Proxy voting is not possible due to the fact the endowment fund is entirely invested in comingled investment vehicles.[55]

Sustainability edit

The university promotes on-campus sustainability primarily though the Sustainability and Environment Committee[60] and the ASWSU Environmental Task Force. Undergraduates who have an idea to improve campus sustainability can apply for funding from the Cougar Green Fund, which is funded by an optional $5 student fee. WSU also provides a free bikeshare system through its Greenbike program.

Museums and collections edit

 
Public art

The Museum of Art/WSU has several permanent collections, including the Ernest O. Holland Collection given by the university's fourth president[61] and the Charles Orton Collection, given by a former regent.[62] Others are the Goya and Daumier Collections, Chaplin Woodcuts, Consortium Collections, Meyer Shapiro Print Collection, Elwood Collection and Marian E. Smith Collection of Northwest glass art. Other permanent collections contain works by Northwest artists D. Griffin, Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Margaret Tomkins, and former faculty members from WSU and the University of Washington.[63]

The university also has an extensive collection of outdoor art on its Pullman campus. Pieces range from a life-size bronze book-figure "Bookin'" by Terry Allen to "Palouse Columns" (2003) by Robert Maki to "The Technicolor Heart," a fourteen-foot painted bronze work by Jim Dine.[64] A large part of WSU's public art collection is made possible by the percent-for-art Art in Public Places program of the Washington State Arts Commission.[65]

Beginning in 2005 the Museum of Art began organizing its own traveling exhibitions. These exhibitions, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Gaylen Hansen, and Chris Jordan, have been seen across the country. Between 2005 and 2011, exhibitions organized by the Museum of Art will have traveled to 20 museums in 11 states, and will have been seen by more than 300,000 people. The Museum has also published 6 trade books since 2004. The Museum of Art's latest exhibition publication, Running the Numbers, an American self-portrait, features essays by Chris Bruce, Paul Hawken and Lucy R. Lippard.

Several other museums and collections are found on the WSU Pullman campus. One of the largest is the Charles R. Conner Museum of Natural History, exhibiting more than 700 mounts of birds and mammals, and possessing more than 65,000 research specimens. The Connor Museum has its roots in an 1894 gift of the state of Washington's exhibits from the Chicago's World's Fair, encouraged by then President of the Board of Regents Charles R. Conner. Located on the first floor of Abelson Hall, the museum is open 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily except major holidays.[66]

The Museum of Anthropology, with archaeological and ethnographic collections, also draws visitors. Open 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday through Friday during the school year, the museum has varied exhibits and special events. It also has a collection of objects representing the culture of Native American tribes in the Inland Northwest, and is an official repository for archaeological collections from Eastern Washington.[67]

Also at WSU are the Harold E. Culver Collection, with fossils of pre-historic animals; the Lyle and Lela Jacklin Collection of Silicified Wood & Minerals; and S. Elroy McCaw Fluorescent Mineral Display.[68] Research collections include an Historic Costume and Textiles Collection, the Maurice T. James Entomological Collection, the Marion Ownbey Herbarium, the Mycological Herbarium, and the Henry W. Smith Soil Monolith Collection.

Organization and administration edit

The university offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in 200 fields of study through 65 departments, schools, and programs.[citation needed]

Colleges edit

These departments, schools, and programs are organized into 10 academic colleges as follows:

In addition, WSU has an all-university honors college, a graduate school, an online global campus, and an accredited intensive English program for non-native speakers (the Intensive American Language Center).[69]

Board of regents edit

Washington State University is chartered by the State of Washington. A board of regents governs the university and provides direction to the president. There are ten regents appointed by the governor, nine of whom serve six-year terms.[citation needed] The tenth is a student regent appointed on an annual basis.

[70] A bill adding an eleventh regent, who would be a full-time or emeritus faculty member, stalled in the Washington legislature in 2018.[71] Currently the regents are Theodor P. Baseler, Brett Blankenship, Scott E. Carson, Marty Dickinson, Ron Sims, Jordan Frost (student), Lura J. Powell, Heather Redman, Lisa K. Schauer, and Michael C. Worthy.[72][73]

Leadership edit

 
Current WSU President Kirk Schulz

Kirk Schulz currently serves as WSU's president and chief executive officer. Daniel Bernardo currently serves as provost and handles academics, research and faculty matters for WSU statewide. The former president, Elson Floyd, also the former president of University of Missouri System, succeeded V. Lane Rawlins on May 21, 2007, and served until his death on June 20, 2015. Bernardo was formerly dean of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.[citation needed]

WSU has had 11 presidents in its 125-year history: George W. Lilley (1891–1892), John W. Heston (1892–1893), Enoch A. Bryan (1893–1915), Ernest O. Holland (1916–1944), Wilson M. Compton (1945–1951), C. Clement French (1952–1966), Glenn Terrell (1967–1985), Samuel H. Smith (1985–2000), V. Lane Rawlins (2000–2007), Elson S. Floyd (2007–2015), and Kirk Schulz (2016-).[74] Former acting president Bernardo is not counted among those; nor are previous acting presidents William Pearl (1951-1952) and Wallis Beasley (1966-1967).[75]

WSU Foundation edit

The WSU Foundation is an independent, private corporation with its own board of governors and chief executive officer that serves as a fundraising organization for the university.[76] The board chair is Judy Rogers.[77]

Faculty edit

The faculty senate serves as the sounding board for the more than 2,261 faculty members.[citation needed] All major academic decisions must be approved by the senate.[citation needed] The senate is composed of representatives from each academic college and department, and from all five WSU campuses.[citation needed]

Academics edit

Undergraduate admissions edit

For the 2022-2023 rankings, U.S. News & World Report reported WSU undergraduate admissions as "less selective" with an acceptance rate of 86%.[78] Of the undergraduates admitted in the fall of 2016, 40.7% graduated in four years and, including the four year rate, 61.5% graduated in six years.[79]

Fall freshman statistics*[80][81]

  2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Applicants 23,223 19,766 18,563 14,887 14,825 14,071 12,427 12,478 11,983
Admits 16,731 15,742 15,017 12,219 11,268 11,601 8,634 9,489 8,677
% admitted 72.0 79.6 80.9 82.1 76.0 82.4 69.4 76.0 72.4
Enrolled 4,527 4,727 4,458 4,163 4,389 4,473 3,288 3,668 3,710
Avg GPA 3.40 3.32 3.29 3.29 3.30 3.35 3.44 3.42 3.48
  • WSU does not require students to submit SAT/ACT test scores as part of the application

process and does not use them in admission decisions.[82]

Curriculum and fields of study edit

WSU has 12 colleges and a graduate school. The liberal arts and sciences have an important place in the curriculum, along with business, communication, education, architecture, pharmacy, nursing, and the traditional land-grant disciplines of agriculture, engineering, and veterinary medicine.

WSU offers more than 200 fields of study, including 98 majors, 86 minors, options, and over 140 graduate and professional degrees.[83][84] Bachelor's degrees are available in all major areas, with master's and doctoral degrees available in most. The undergraduate core curriculum, including the writing program, is nationally recognized.[85][better source needed][peacock prose] WSU confers nearly 5,900 bachelor's, master's, professional, and doctoral degrees statewide in a typical year. WSU employs over 1,400 instructional faculty members.

Rankings edit

WSU was ranked tied for 212th of National Universities, tied for 107th among Top Public Schools, tied for 140th of Best Colleges for Veterans, tied for 197th in Top Performers on Social Mobility, and 177th of Best Value Schools as published in the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings.[78] In these rankings, it was also ranked tied for 75th Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs whose highest degree is a doctorate.[78] WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine ranked 14th out of 28 evaluated by U.S. News & World Report in 2019.[97]

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in 2020 ranked WSU in the 95–114 range nationally and in the 301–400 range globally. WSU was ranked 400th in the world by the QS World University Rankings for 2020.

WSU Libraries edit

The WSU Libraries[98] coordinate the administration of three major libraries on the WSU Pullman campus ( Holland/Terrell, and Owen Science & Engineering Libraries) and three libraries off the Pullman campus (WSU Health Sciences library, and the WSU Tri-Cities and WSU Vancouver libraries).

The WSU Libraries also participates in the Orbis Cascade Alliance,[99] a consortium of 38 university and college libraries in Washington and Oregon offering the Summit catalog and an inter-library loan system. The WSU Libraries participates in the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA),[100] a consortium of 39 research libraries in the central and western United States. WSU Libraries uses ILLiad, RAPID, Rapido (Ex Libris), and DOCLINE for document delivery. The WSU Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries.

WSU Libraries employs faculty librarians and paraprofessional staff, in addition to student workers.[101]

The WSU Libraries holds 2,266,616 print volumes and WSU faculty and students downloaded 2,022,603 from its licensed online collections in 2012.[102]

Research edit

 
Homer J. Dana Hall (1948),[25]
College of Engineering and Architecture

According to the National Science Foundation, WSU spent $360 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 71st in the nation.[103]

Research and scholarship at WSU is rooted in agriculture, natural for a land-grant university. The institution's first leader, George W. Lilley (1891–1892), was both president of the then-named Washington Agricultural College and School of Science and director of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station. Subjects taught by the first five faculty members included agriculture, botany, horticulture, forestry, and veterinary science.

In 1894, the sixth faculty member, William Jasper Spillman, arrived to teach plant science and mathematics and serve as the first wheat breeder.[104] The WSU wheat research and breeding program continues to serve the Washington wheat industry, the sixth largest industry in the nation in 2008–2009.[105] The state's wheat growers work closely with WSU researchers on development of new wheat varieties that meet their needs.[106][107]

The university's food and agriculture research helps sustain the state's annual $29 billion food industry. Faculty partnered with agriculture interests to create today's $3 billion a year wine grape business.[108] The Apple Genome Project draws collaboration from scientists worldwide to map the apple genome, research aimed at supporting the apple industry.

Food science is another long-time research field at WSU. Work in the 1940s on types of cheese suitable for storing in cans or tins led to creation of now award-winning Cougar Gold cheese, a white cheddar produced at the WSU Creamery with milk from the university's dairy herd.[109] In 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of microwave energy for producing pre-packaged, low-acid foods, and WSU professor Juming Tang led development of the technology by university, industry and U.S. military scientists.[110]

In terms of productivity, WSU plant sciences faculty rank No. 2 in the nation, animal sciences faculty rank fourth, and food science faculty rank sixth according to Academic Analytics' 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index.[111] In addition, WSU agricultural studies have helped shape U.S. public policy by showing how sustainable farming practices sidestep the environmental hazards of conventional agriculture. The Climate Friendly Farming project helps farmers adopt methods that mitigate global climate change.[112] Research in agriculture is a strength for WSU, where the university has led in research and development funding from the US Department of Agriculture.[113]

Veterinary medicine and animal health are also important research areas at WSU. In 2008, a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded a large share of the cost for a research facility for a new WSU School for Global Animal Health. Its scientists address global infectious disease challenges by detecting diseases within animal populations and controlling their transmission. The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at WSU works closely with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop and deploy diagnostic tests for livestock diseases.

In the area of clean technologies, university researchers work to raise the efficiency and reliability of the nation's electrical power grid, improve air quality forecasting in the Northwest, and conduct cooperative research projects under the United States Department of Energy's Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI). Scholars are developing an algae-based biofuel that consumes greenhouse gases in its production and are working to patent nanospring technology that would fit into an ordinary gas tank, solving the problem of hydrogen storage. In 2001, WSU professor M. Grant Norton and University of Idaho physics professor David McIlroy were the first scientists to create nanosprings.[114]

WSU is also home to one of the few remaining nuclear research reactors in the country. The Nuclear Radiation Center is a 1 MW TRIGA conversion reactor built in 1961 during President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. It is a very potent research tool utilized by WSU's radiochemistry graduate program, as well as providing education on the nuclear industry to the public through talks and facility tours.

Other recent research highlights include studies of the effects of sleep and sleep loss on human cognitive functioning, work to advance shock compression science with contracts awarded to the WSU Institute for Shock Physics by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the department of energy, and a program funded by the National Science Foundation that trains doctoral students to analyze evolutionary processes.[citation needed] Reproductive biologist Patricia A. Hunt was named one of the top 50 researchers of 2007 by Scientific American for her work showing a potential threat to human health posed by bisphenol A (BPA), a component of the polycarbonate plastics used to make food and beverage containers.[115]

Over the years, WSU research and scholarship included the 1968 discovery of the Marmes Man at the Marmes Rockshelter in southeastern Washington, the nation's oldest human remains at that time; the development of high-yielding dwarf wheat; discovery of insect resistance to pesticides; and creation of a method to store cheese in tins, which led to the university's well known and still produced Cougar Gold Cheese.[116] WSU fruit breeders have developed many varieties for the state including, in 1952, the sweet, yellow Rainier cherry, and in 2010 an apple specifically for Washington, named Cosmic Crisp.[117]

Outreach and public service edit

The WSU Extension has offices in each of Washington's 39 counties, providing training and assistance in agricultural practices, natural resource management, human and life skills, diversity understanding and outreach, the state 4-H program, and many other programs. In 1973 in Seattle, WSU Extension founded the now national Master Gardener Programs of trained volunteers.[118] WSU Extension faculty and staff have also provided assistance for programs in under-developed and developing countries. Many faculty members have appointments to do research, teach, and provide extension services.

The State of Washington's network of Small Business Development Centers is a cooperative effort of Washington State University, other public educational institutions, economic development organizations and the US Small Business Administration. A source of counsel on starting and growing small firms, the centers are found in 17 locations in Western Washington and seven location in Eastern and Central Washington.[119]

The WSU Creamery, an outreach and teaching program, has garnered a reputation for fine dairy products, most notably the Cougar Gold cheese sold at the creamery store, Ferdinand's, as well as online and at some local Pullman stores. The cheese is regionally famous and fetches a starting price of $22 for a 30 oz can. Cougar Gold is marketed as "a white, sharp cheddar with a taste that resembles Swiss or Gouda" and is "aged for at least one year." Cougar Cheese also comes in other varieties, including American Cheddar, Smoky Cheddar, Viking, Dill Garlic, Sweet Basil, Hot Pepper and Crimson Fire.

Washington State University Press each year publishes an average of eight titles that focus on the American West, with particular emphasis on the prehistory, history, environment, politics, and culture of the greater Northwest region. A member of the Association of University Presses,[120] the WSU Press publishes in varied genres, including scholarly and trade monographs, reminiscences, essays, biographies and works that tell the story of the West in innovative ways.[121]

Through the Center for Civic Engagement on the Pullman campus, students participate in an estimated 30,000 hours annually of credit and non-credit service activities in the community.[122]

In 2008, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching granted WSU its Community Engagement elective classification, both for curricular engagement and for outreach and partnerships.[123]

WSU operates a research extension out of Prosser, Washington. AgWeatherNet [124] (AWN) provides access to current and historical weather data from Washington State University's automated weather station network along with a range of models and decision aids.[citation needed] The weather data, advisories, weather data products and decision support systems provided by AgWeatherNet and WSU can help improve production and product quality, optimize resource use and reduce environmental impact.[citation needed]

Student life edit

 
The Center for Undergraduate Education
Undergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020
Race and ethnicity[125] Total
White 60% 60
 
Hispanic 17% 17
 
Other[a] 9% 9
 
Asian 6% 6
 
Foreign national 4% 4
 
Black 3% 3
 
Economic diversity
Low-income[b] 27% 27
 
Affluent[c] 73% 73
 

Student life on WSU's Pullman campus is influenced by a variety of student organizations and their committees. Open to all students, they create educational, entertaining and cultural programming for WSU students and the local community. Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition (APASC), Black Student Union (BSU), Environmental Sustainability Alliance (ESA), Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA), International Students' Council (ISC), Ku Ah Mah, KZUU Radio, Middle Eastern Students Association (MESA), Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian (MEChA), Student Legal Services (SLS), Veteran's Student Committee, and GIVE on the Pullman Campus. There are also more than 300 registered student organisations (RSOs) that cover many interests. All ASWSU committees are members of "Committee Squared," the coalition of all ASWSU Committee leaders. ASWSU also consists of the President and Vice President who oversee the Executive Staff. The staff consists of a variety of directors and assistant directors advancing student causes via student life, diversity affairs, campus life, and others. The 23-member Senate represents students via academic colleges as well as the Honors College and Freshman class. The Senate meets weekly to debate legislation, hear reports from the Executive Staff, and appoint the various officers of ASWSU. The Senate also provides financial support to the nearly 400 registered student organizations on campus via the Senate Finance Committee. Finally, the Election Board and the Judicial Board complete the association.

There are several other influential student organizations. Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, the United Greek Council, and the National Pan-Hellenic Council are governmental bodies for university-recognized Greek social organizations. The Residence Hall Association is a government body for students in the residence halls, governing all of the residence halls on campus excluding McEachern and Stimson Halls. It is the second biggest registered student organization at Washington State, representing about 4,700 on-campus resident students.

The board of directors of the Students' Book Corporation has a total of nine directors. Five are students at WSU, two are faculty and two are administrative directors. These people oversees the non-profit campus bookstore separate from WSU.[126] The Students' Book Corporation provides a 10% point of sale discount. On average the dividend total has been about $85,000. This is then received at ASWSU organizations at each campus to be distributed to various groups and activities.[126] The Compton Union Board (CUB) oversees the management of the student union building and its services. The University Recreation Board oversees the management of university recreation. The Student Alumni Connection hosts several major campus events.

The Student Entertainment Board (SEB) is a student-led board composed of undergraduate students. Positions on the board include: Spotlight, Films, Up All Night, Lectures, CUB Gallery, Concerts, VPLAC (Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts Committee), Special Event (Homecoming and Springfest), associate director, and Director. They are responsible for bringing diverse arts & entertainment to campus.

The Coalition for Women Students provides much of the multicultural programs on campus, including the annual minority women symposium, the Week Without Violence, and Take Back the Night rally and march. CWS is made up of Association for Pacific and Asian Women, Black Women's Caucus, Mujeres Unidas, Native American Women's Association, and the YWCA of WSU. The organization also funds the all-volunteer Women's Transit, a safe door-to-door transportation program for women who would otherwise walk alone at night.

Student government edit

WSU has two representative student body organizations: the Associated Students of Washington State University (ASWSU) founded in 1915 and the Graduate and Professional Students Association (GPSA) founded about 1970.

In recent years, the student body completed several major projects on campus. In addition to passing a $15 transportation fee to increase Pullman Transit's service, the student body also voted to remodel the Compton Union Building. The building closed in May 2006 and re-opened in August 2008. In March 2006, ASWSU voted to support the renovation of Martin Stadium, adding $25 per semester to undergraduate student fees.

Associated Students of Washington State University edit

Main article: Associated Students of Washington State University

ASWSU's organizational framework is similar to that of most American governments complete with an appointed and confirmed judiciary, elected representatives (from districts) to a senate, and an annually elected president and vice-president team. The president also has a paid staff led by the chief of staff ranging in size from 6–12 members, depending on the year.

Graduate and Professional Students Association edit

GPSA is similar, but differs in that it lacks a judiciary or a paid staff. The GPSA is centered on the senate which is composed of a large number of senators that represent different graduate and professional programs. The GPSA also has an executive Council that consists of the (GPSA) President, vice-presidents, and nine District Representatives elected from the nine colleges of WSU.

Media edit

 
Horizon Air Q400 in unique WSU livery

Washington State Magazine is the alumni and research magazine of Washington State University. Published quarterly, the magazine covers news and issues of interest to Washington State University faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the people of Washington. The magazine was first published in 2001.[127] Before Washington State Magazine, WSU alumni news was published in HillTopics from 1969 to 2000, and The PowWow, the alumni magazine from 1910 to 1969.[128] Research news at the university appeared in Universe magazine in the 1990s.[129]

WSU News is the university's official news website and daily e-newsletter[130] for faculty, staff and graduate students.

The Daily Evergreen is Washington State University's student newspaper.[131] The first issue of the Evergreen was published in 1895.

WSU broadcast media include Northwest Public Radio and Television, the network of public radio and television stations in the Northwest owned and operated by Washington State University. NWPR's flagship station—KWSU 1250 in Pullman—signed on December 10, 1922, as KFAE, became KWSC in 1925, and then KWSU in the 1960s. WSU alumnus Edward R. Murrow got his start in radio at KWSC.[132]

Cable 8 Productions is a local student-operated cable TV channel serving WSU and the Pullman-Moscow area.[133] KZUU 90.7 FM, a non-commercial college radio station, is a service of ASWSU.[134] It gained FCC approval in 1979.[135] KUGR Sports Rock is a student-operated, online radio station.[136] Among the students who operate these media are broadcasting students in WSU's Edward R. Murrow College of Communication.

Song edit

"The Fight Song" is the school's fight song. It was composed in 1919 by students Phyllis Sayles and lyrics were written by Zella Melcher, as a class project.[137]

The lyrics are found on the Washington State University visitor website.[138]

Additionally, Washington State has embraced Andy Grammer's "Back Home" in recent years, featured prominently during sporting events and appearing on merchandise sold by the university.

Athletics edit

Main article: Washington State Cougars

Washington State University is a member of the Pac-12 Conference. The school's mascot is "Butch T. Cougar" and the school's colors are crimson and gray. Varsity athletics include men's baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, and track and field, as well as women's basketball, cross country, golf, rowing, soccer, swimming, volleyball, tennis, and track and field. In the past WSU had varsity programs of boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, and men's swimming. In 1917, WSU won its first national championship in men's basketball. In 1937, Roy Petragallo and Ed McKinnon won the NCAA boxing championship, another national championship. The Cougars third and most recent national championship was earned in 1977 in indoor track and field.

 
Martin Stadium in 2012,
home of Cougar football

University Recreation also supports 26 club sports, including bowling, men's crew, cricket, cycling, equestrian show team, men's and women's flag football, fencing, polo, men's and women's ice hockey, judo, men's lacrosse, logger sports, rodeo, men's rugby union, women's rugby, sailing, ski team, men's soccer, women's fast-pitch softball, taekwondo, triathlon, Ultimate, men's and women's volleyball, water polo and wrestling.

 
Cougar fans celebrate after
the Apple Cup win in 2004

Washington State's biggest rival is the University of Washington Huskies. Strong rivalries also exist between WSU and the other Pac-12 teams of the Pacific Northwest: the University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State University Beavers. WSU's closest geographic rival is the University of Idaho Vandals, a fellow land-grant school only seven miles (11 km) east of Pullman across the state line in Moscow. Conference rivals until 1959, their rivalry football game, the "Battle of the Palouse", was played on an annual basis from 1901 until 1978 when the NCAA Division I split. After Idaho returned to Division I-A, a renewed series lasted a decade, from 1998 until 2007. The renewed series was dropped from the schedule due to the Cougars' continued dominance of the Vandals in the series, and each school's ability to generate more revenue by playing other opponents. Vandal head coach Robb Akey, a former WSU defensive coordinator, preferred the game as an occasional rather regular attraction. On hiatus for five seasons, it returned for one year in 2013.[139]

Notable alumni and faculty edit

Main article: List of Washington State University people

The university has 196,257 living alumni in fall 2015, according to WSU Quick Facts.[83]

Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose (attended one year, graduated University of Chicago), broadcaster Edward R. Murrow, journalist Ana Cabrera, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (dropped out), astronaut John M. Fabian, cartoonist Gary Larson, action movie star Dolph Lundgren (attended one year), molecular evolutionist Allan Wilson (Master's degree), banking executive Phyllis J. Campbell, painter and pioneer of Abstract Expressionism Clyfford Still (Master's degree), Canadian Football League player and champion George Reed, Entrepreneur Clint Hedin, sociologist William Julius Wilson (PhD), author and film director Sherman Alexie (attended), veterinary researcher John Gorham, wheat breeder Orville Vogel (not a student), physicist Philip Abelson, and physician Neva Abelson.[140] Donald Allen Duncan, who managed Washington State's Varsity swim team in 1950, became Head Coach at Puget Sound University from 1957 to 1994 where he led the team to a notable record of 307 Wins-127 losses.[141][142][143]

1984 Olympic gold medalist in men's double sculls, Paul Enquist, started his rowing career at Washington State. Olympic marathon and middle-distance runner Bernard Lagat, ran NCAA track and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in management information systems 2000.

Medal of Honor recipients Colonel James P. Fleming and Staff Sergeant Ronald Shurer are both Washington State University alumni. Colonel Fleming entered the Air Force after receiving his commission through ROTC at Washington State in 1966. Staff Sergeant Shurer attended Washington State from 1997 to 2002 earning a bachelor's degree in business administration and starting an MBA before enlisting in the US Army.

Counterculture icon Timothy Leary received a graduate degree from Washington State in the mid-1940s.[144]

Musician Krist Novoselic earned a BSc in social sciences from Washington State University Global Campus in 2016.

Edmund Schweitzer, founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), graduated with his Ph.D. from Washington State in 1977. He received the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering in 2012,[145] and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2019.[146]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Other consists of Multiracial Americans & those who prefer to not say.
  2. ^ The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
  3. ^ The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.

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Further reading edit

  • Frykman, Gerorge A. (1990). Creating the People's University: Washington State University, 1890-1990 (DJVU). WSU Libraries Digital Collections. Pullman, Washington: Washington State University Press. ISBN 978-0874220582. OCLC 869255895.

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washington, state, university, confused, with, university, washington, this, article, about, flagship, campus, pullman, university, system, system, colloquially, informally, wazzu, public, land, grant, research, university, pullman, washington, founded, 1890, . Not to be confused with University of Washington This article is about the flagship campus in Pullman For the university system see Washington State University System Washington State University WSU or colloquially and informally Wazzu is a public land grant research university in Pullman Washington Founded in 1890 WSU is also one of the oldest land grant universities in the American West 7 With an undergraduate enrollment of 24 278 and a total enrollment of 28 581 8 it is the second largest institution for higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington 9 It is classified among R1 Doctoral Universities Very high research activity 10 Washington State UniversityFormer namesAgricultural College Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Washington 1890 1905 State College of Washington 1905 1959 TypePublic land grant research universityEstablishedMarch 28 1890 134 years ago 1890 03 28 AccreditationNWCCUAcademic affiliationCOP 1 CUMUEndowment 1 29 billion 2021 2 PresidentKirk Schulz 3 Academic staff2 261Students31 471 Total 20 976 Pullman 1 685 Spokane 1 813 Tri Cities 283 Everett 3 585 Vancouver 3 265 Global Campus WSU Online 4 Undergraduates26 062 Total 18 346 Pullman 534 Spokane 1 603 Tri Cities 3 170 Vancouver 283 Everett 4 Postgraduates4 262 Total 4 Doctoral students1283 Total 4 LocationPullman Washington United States46 44 N 117 10 W 46 73 N 117 16 W 46 73 117 16CampusDistant town 5 1 742 acres 7 05 km2 Other campusesEverettRichlandSpokaneVancouverNewspaperThe Daily EvergreenColorsCrimson and gray 6 NicknameCougarsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS Pac 12MPSFMascotButch T CougarWebsitewww wbr wsu wbr eduAerial view of the campusThe WSU Pullman campus stands on a hill and is characterized by open spaces and a red brick and basalt material palette materials originally found on site The university sits within the rolling topography of the Palouse in rural eastern Washington and remains closely connected to the town and the region 11 The university also operates campuses across Washington at WSU Spokane WSU Tri Cities and WSU Vancouver all founded in 1989 In 2012 WSU launched an Internet based Global Campus 12 which includes its online degree program WSU Online In 2015 WSU expanded to a sixth campus at WSU Everett These campuses award primarily bachelor s and master s degrees Freshmen and sophomores were first admitted to the Vancouver campus in 2006 and to the Tri Cities campus in 2007 WSU s athletic teams are called the Cougars and the school colors are crimson and gray Six men s and nine women s varsity teams compete in NCAA Division I in the Pac 12 Conference Both men s and women s indoor track teams compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Contents 1 History 1 1 Agricultural College Experiment Station and School of Science 1 1 1 The Bryan years 1 2 Washington State College 1 3 Washington State University 1 3 1 State wide university 2 Campus 2 1 Built environment 2 2 Residential campus 2 3 Residence halls 2 4 Greek life 2 5 College Hill 2 6 Recreation and the outdoors 2 7 Arboretum and Botanical Garden 2 8 Environmental record and sustainability initiatives 2 8 1 Energy use on campus 2 8 2 Energy profile 2 8 3 Energy investments 2 8 4 Sustainability 2 9 Museums and collections 3 Organization and administration 3 1 Colleges 3 2 Board of regents 3 3 Leadership 3 4 WSU Foundation 3 5 Faculty 4 Academics 4 1 Undergraduate admissions 4 2 Curriculum and fields of study 4 3 Rankings 4 4 WSU Libraries 4 5 Research 4 6 Outreach and public service 5 Student life 5 1 Student government 5 1 1 Associated Students of Washington State University 5 1 2 Graduate and Professional Students Association 5 2 Media 5 3 Song 6 Athletics 7 Notable alumni and faculty 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksHistory editAgricultural College Experiment Station and School of Science edit nbsp View of the Palouse at Steptoe ButteIn 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act of 1862 into law allowing for the creation of land grant colleges to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes The Hatch Act of 1887 expanded on the Morrill Act providing federal funds for the establishment of agriculture experiment stations at land grant colleges Shortly after attaining statehood on November 11 1889 the Washington State Legislature began taking steps to claim a land grant college and fewer than five months later on March 28 1890 passed House Bill 90 for the creation of the Agricultural College Experiment Station and School of Science of the State of Washington Governor Elisha P Ferry signed the bill into law a few days later 13 Soon after a second act of legislature expanded the school s educational mission to include general arts and sciences The university and the experiment station would aid enterprise by improving farm management conducting research and teaching the skills needed to be better farmers 14 WSU s role as a statewide institution became clear in 1894 with the launch of its first agricultural experiment station west of the Cascade Mountains near Puyallup 15 nbsp nbsp Washington State Universityclass notpageimage Location in Washington According to the legislation the site of the land grant college was to be determined by a three member committee appointed by the governor but it stipulated that the site must be located in the southeast corner of the state After an exhaustive examination of bidding towns such as Yakima and other towns in the Palouse region the state s new land grant college opened to 59 students in Pullman on January 13 1892 offering three major courses of study agriculture engineering and domestic science 13 Pullman was possibly selected because of a generous land gift by the city and its railroad connections to Spokane and Portland Oregon A five member Board of Regents was appointed with George W Lilley acting as the school s first President 13 The school started out with a faculty of five with a student body largely consisting of children from the surrounding community who if they were residents of Washington would have attended tuition free The year 1897 saw the first graduating class of seven men and women 16 The Bryan years edit Enoch Albert Bryan appointed July 22 1893 and serving for 22 years was the first influential president of WSU and considered by many as the true founder of the university 13 Bryan previously served as the president of Vincennes University in Indiana and was an alumnus of Indiana University and held a graduate degree from Harvard When Bryan learned he was nominated for the presidency by a friend in Oregon he had never even heard of the college Before Bryan s arrival the fledgling university suffered through significant organizational instability Under Bryan s term as president the curriculum included both a practical and liberal arts component where chemistry mathematics as well as history English literature and two foreign languages were core courses required for graduation regardless of major 13 Under Bryan music and art held importance too in 1905 he gained the approval of the Board of Regents for a School of Music Bryan guided the college toward respectability and is arguably the most influential figure in the university s history The landmark clock tower in the center of campus is his namesake As the college approached the end of its first decade of existence Bryan and others tried to garner the necessary support to change the name of the school which resulted in the introduction of a bill to change the school name to Washington State College in 1899 This and similar efforts in 1901 and 1903 were defeated with strong opposition for attempting to create another state university which would undermine the clout of the University of Washington UW in Seattle However in 1905 the school was finally able to officially change its name to the State College of Washington or more informally as Washington State College WSC 13 Washington State College edit Ernest O Holland succeeded Enoch Bryan as President of the Washington State College in 1915 13 That same year a close friend of his whom he shared a room with while studying at Columbia University Henry Suzzallo became the President of the University of Washington Holland s early years as president and friendship with Suzzallo were challenged during his tenure as president In 1909 the institutional rivalry between WSC and UW worsened when state legislators the majority of which held seats in western Washington were dismayed to find a foreign language department an English Department headed by a Harvard educated PhD a school of architecture and many departments with graduate students The legislative committee promptly advised demoting the college to trade school status an idea which Suzzallo supported 13 Suzzallo penned a letter to Holland promising to make WSC the greatest school of agriculture in the world only if Holland agreed to abandon all other disciplines to UW Suzzallo s proposal specifically sought to shut down WSC s schools of architecture and pharmacy 13 After years of wrangling the Washington legislature decided against limiting the academic mission and scope of WSC 13 The two presidents and their respective institutions continued to have a row over curriculum and state appropriations until Suzzallo was relieved of his position in 1926 due to the influence of Washington governor Roland H Hartley 13 In trying to outdo his former peer at UW Holland wanted to build a library that rivaled the grandness of the newly built library at UW that bears Suzzallo s name Funding for the Holland Library was delayed by the state however until 1950 nbsp Thompson and Bryan Halls in 1925Budgetary woes hit WSC in the Great Depression years starting in the 1930s The budget faculty salaries and enrollment slumped dramatically Enrollment didn t reach pre Depression levels until 1936 and salaries until 1937 in nominal terms 13 With the start of World War II the Washington State College was contracted by the War Department to house and train the Army Signal Corps where they were given pre flight school training and lessons in Japanese language The college hosted as many as 1 900 military personnel in the vacated dormitories and fraternities 17 It was during this time in 1944 however when WSC saw the exciting introduction of the Cougar Gold brand of sharp white cheddar cheese from the campus creamery The cheese was developed and gets its namesake from dairy bacteriologist Dr N S Golding who was studying molds for cheese production 17 After the war ended and the passing of the G I Bill the college went from having virtually no men on campus to being inundated with them The school had to scramble to accommodate the former servicemen by buying migrant housing and using temporary housing units provided by the federal government 17 The campus became so crowded that President Wilson Compton mulled over moving the college to Spokane but in 1947 he ultimately determined that it would be impractical Washington State University edit On September 1 1959 the state legislature passed a bill unopposed that officially changed the name to Washington State University 17 18 19 The maturing university partly owed the success of this to the establishment of the WSU Honors College which is one of the oldest in the nation and a highly respected university program for gifted students 17 The university joined the Athletic Association of Western Universities in 1962 which included the University of Washington and four other universities in California at the time 17 In an effort to improve the graduate program and research credentials of WSU a low grade nuclear reactor was constructed funded by Atomic Energy Commission grants and new doctoral programs were introduced By the 1970s WSU s enrollment quadrupled from its level in the 1940s to 14 000 students with an influx from the Baby Boom Generation President Glenn Terrell took steps to increase funding for undergraduate and graduate education amid the nationwide recession of the mid 1970s Terrell didn t make any major cuts to the athletics department however which didn t go unnoticed and was a cause for anger about his leadership among some of the faculty 17 State wide university edit Beginning with the start of Samuel H Smith s term as president in 1985 marked a large period of growth for WSU In 1989 WSU gained branch campuses in Spokane the Tri Cities and Vancouver with established extension offices and research centers in all regions of the state with facilities in Prosser and Wenatchee 17 20 Smith proved to be a consummate fundraiser with about 760 million raised during his term thanks in some part to Microsoft co founder and alumnus Paul Allen 17 In the 1990s Smith began to clamp down and take action regarding student alcohol abuse and disciplinary issues after some high profile incidents on campus in an effort to improve the university s image The efforts seemed to have paid off when WSU lost its rank and was completely excluded from The Princeton Review s party school list in August 2000 17 Improving the quality of education was the defining goal of the university under V Lane Rawlins who raised admission requirements and sought to improve the academic profile of the school with improved curricula and research facilities After Rawlins retired in 2006 Elson Floyd succeeded him as president Under Floyd s leadership increasing the diversity of the student body and continuing to raise the stature and reach of the university were a focus In his eight years as president WSU enrollment figures went up by 17 percent including a 12 5 percent increase in the number of students of color the amount of research grants awarded to WSU tripled to 600 million a year and he led expansions in all of WSU s branch campuses most notably successfully campaigning for the creation of the public medical school that now bears his name at WSU Spokane the Elson S Floyd College of Medicine 21 The second public medical school in Washington and only one of three in the state is seen as key to the university s organizational mission as a state land grant university and its ambitions as a research university Created five years after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2015 the medical school s goal is to alleviate a physician shortage in rural and eastern Washington using a community based approach 22 The med school is said to be a key component in the university s new research focused 1 5 billion Drive to 25 campaign under President Kirk Schulz which seeks to make WSU among the nations top 25 public research universities by 2030 23 The Elson S Floyd College of Medicine achieved full accreditation in June 2021 24 Campus edit nbsp WSU campus from the northwestThe Pullman campus of Washington State University is 620 acres 2 5 km2 and is in the Palouse region The average elevation of the campus is approximately 2 500 feet 760 m above sea level and is seven miles 11 km west of the Idaho border and Moscow home of the University of Idaho also a land grant institution The university communities are connected by Highway 270 and the Bill Chipman Palouse Trail The Palouse is defined by its unique rolling hills that were created by wind blown soil which supports one of the world s most productive dry land agricultural regions The main crops are wheat peas barley and lentils Evenings are often highlighted by a spectacular blue pink sunset which the first Board of Regents decided to use as the college s colors later changed to the current crimson and gray colors Perched atop College Hill one of the four main hills in Pullman the campus overlooks downtown Pullman Built environment edit nbsp Thompson Hall 1894 known as the Administration Buildinguntil renamed in 1972 25 Campus architecture is diverse but its prevailing image is perhaps best characterized by a handful of red brick buildings in the older campus core designed in a neo Georgian or Renaissance Revival mode many of which were constructed between the world wars 26 Yet WSU was hardly immune to modernist international style trends of the post World War II period and features some notable examples of the type particularly the Regents Hill dormitory complex designed by Paul Thiry on the north side of campus By the 1990s the university began to encourage eye catching designs including a 1994 addition to the old Holland Library now called Terrell Library by the Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership now ZGF Architects LLP with a curving sweep of windows and a cone shaped skylight above its atrium an amenity filled recreation center with a massive Jacuzzi and fireplace in 2001 and the Samuel H Smith Center for Undergraduate Education or CUE named for WSU president Smith who served from 1985 to 2000 The latter two buildings were designed by Yost Grube Hall of Portland The busiest part of campus is the Glenn Terrell Friendship Mall referred to as the mall by students This walkway which prior to the 1970s was a road with parking available along the sides was named after Terrell WSU s president from 1967 to 1985 His secretary was known to set meetings ten minutes behind schedule to make up for the time he would spend talking to students along the way The library complex Terrell and Holland Libraries the student union Compton Union Building 27 and three academic buildings surround the mall The new crimson colored cube that distinguishes the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art opened in the spring of 2018 just across from the club seating entrance to the football stadium nbsp Stadium WayThe football venue Martin Stadium named after Governor Clarence D Martin 28 also figures prominently on campus It is situated near the geographical center of the campus with the south grandstands built into the Hill the Information Technology building is part of the south grandstands and Terrell Library and the Vogel Plant BioSciences buildings overlooking the west and east ends respectively Football has been played here since 1895 first as Soldier Field later renamed Rogers Field rebuilt in 1936 After a fire to the main wooden grandstand in 1970 29 30 it was replaced with Martin Stadium which opened 52 years ago in 1972 31 Even though it is the smallest in the Pac 12 it offers the most seating to students in the conference After the 2006 season Martin Stadium went under a massive renovation to expand the seating capacity and offer greater amenities for players and spectators as well as made improvements to the general facilities such as bathrooms and concession stands The Cougar Football Project is the proposed renovation of Martin Stadium that consists of two separate projects The first project called the Southside Project 32 would replace the old press box on the south stands with a new structure that includes a new press box club seats loge boxes luxury suites and a club room The Southside Project is now finished and was completed in November 2012 The second project originally called the West End Zone Project and now the Football Operations Building provides a home for the Cougar football program and includes new weight locker equipment and training rooms for players in addition to meeting rooms and coaches offices It also features a WSU Football heritage area along the west side and a game day home for Gray W former letter winners citation needed nbsp Bryan Hall 1909 25 with landmark clock towerOther notable buildings include Thompson Hall 1895 Stevens Hall 1896 the Math Learning Annex 1908 and Bryan Hall 1909 33 the university s oldest surviving buildings which help enclose a sloping quadrangle featuring the Lowell Elm a large American Elm Ulmus americana brought from Elmwood in 1893 by Harriet Bryan wife of newly appointed president Bryan 34 35 Thompson Hall with its distinctive turrets and its resemblance to a chateau in the Loire Valley of France was the original administration building and Administration Building is still carved above the original west facing entrance Today Thompson Hall is home to the foreign language department and also provides the administrative offices for the College of Arts and Sciences Bryan Hall is perhaps the most noticeable building on campus with its tall four sided tower enclosing a carillon and displaying a clock that lights up neon red in the evening Stevens Hall to Bryan Hall s northwest is reputed to be the oldest surviving all women s dormitory west of the Mississippi Stevens Hall and Thompson Hall are on the National Register of Historic Places and both were designed by the Seattle firm of Stephen amp Josenhans 25 Also significant are the Lewis Alumni Centre and the Webster Physical Science Building The alumni center is an old beef cattle barn dating from the 1920s that was thoroughly transformed in the 1980s into event space and offices for the WSU Alumni Association Rooms in the alumni center include the Board of Regents Boardroom Lighty Library the Athletics Hall of Fame the Alumni Presidents Room and the Great Hall for large social events on the second floor Webster Hall completed in 1974 and designed by the Seattle based architectural firm of Naramore Bain Brady and Johanson NBBJ is the tallest building on campus with twelve above ground floors of offices and an expansive view of the region from a lounge on the northwest side of the top floor From 1911 to 1923 Rudolph Weaver was the first chairman of the architecture department He designed seven buildings on the WSU campus including 36 Beef Barn now the Lewis Alumni Centre 1922 37 Carpenter Hall which was not finished until 1927 38 Community Hall 1921 39 McCroskey Hall 1920 40 41 President s House 1912 Stimson Hall 1922 42 43 Wilson Short Hall 1917 first used but not finished until later 44 Residential campus edit nbsp Stimson Hall 1922 25 WSU is a residential campus Many freshmen live in residence halls while some live in fraternity and sorority houses or in off campus housing After their first year many students move to apartments several owned by WSU Most apartments are less than 1 2 mile 0 8 km from campus Off campus housing is popularly divided into two sections that are commonly known by students as College Hill and Apartment Land College Hill houses many members of the Greek community who no longer live in their fraternity sorority houses and are commonly known as live outs Residence halls edit A number of the residence halls are co ed but there are single gender living environments as well as a variety of other living options that include age restricted housing a mix of domestic and international students and a global learning community All of the residence halls except for McEachern are part of the RHA Residence Hall Association Residence halls on campus include The Hill Halls Community Duncan Dunn Elmina White Honors Hall McCroskey Wilmer Davis and Stevens The Northside Halls Regents Hill Scott Coman Streit Perham Northside and Global Scholars Southside Halls Stimson Waller Gannon Goldsworthy Rogers Orton McEachern and Olympia The Stephenson Residential Complex Stephenson East Stephenson North and Stephenson SouthEach hall has its own government which organizes events manages its budget and acts as a forum for student involvement These halls range in size from the exclusive Stevens Hall approximately 70 residents to the massive Stephenson Complex approximately 1200 residents total The highlight of the year for the residence halls is often Homecoming Week when the residence halls off campus students and Greeks compete in various events Events such as the chariot race determine the winner of Homecoming Week In the past decade the winner of Homecoming Week has most often been a residence hall team Greek life edit There are currently 27 fraternities in the Interfraternity Council 14 sororities in the Panhellenic Council 14 fraternities and sororities in the United Greek Association and 10 fraternities and sororities in the National Panhellenic Council at Washington State University There are 26 primarily residential fraternities and 14 primary residential sororities that are located on College Hill 45 Kappa Sigma is the oldest national fraternity at WSU with a founding date in 1909 and Alpha Delta Pi was the first sorority at WSU with a founding date in 1912 46 The average chapter size of the community organizations is 64 members 47 Between 25 and 30 percent of undergraduate students are in the Greek community annually 48 Greek affiliates have the highest GPA on WSU s campus averaging 3 2 for sorority women and 2 97 for fraternity men based on figures from Spring 2018 49 Individuals join chapters by going through recruitment often a week at the beginning of one or both semesters where chapter members hold events to meet potential new members Washington State University has a zero tolerance policy on hazing both potential new members and current members Each year Greek chapters submit 6 Pillars of Excellence each pillar representing a value of Greek Life at WSU and do reports at the end of the year as a self evaluation for each chapter Washington State University recognizes the right of each fraternity and sorority to create policies and regulations of internal governance as long as said policies do not conflict with those described in this document or any of its appendices 50 College Hill edit Greek Row is situated on College Hill just downhill from Bryan Hall and the Hill Halls the historic single gender dormitories on the WSU campus and among the homes of faculty Greek live outs and apartment buildings The Greek Row and College Hill area is a diverse community of students faculty members and families College Hill is also home to the President of WSU Kirk Schulz College Hill is supported by The College Hill Association whose mission envisions a vibrant diverse and improving community that welcomes all residents and values the historic character of the neighborhood Restaurants thrift stores and various bars line Colorado Street the main street on College Hill The bars on College Hill include Cougar Cottage informally the Coug currently in its 90th year of operation Valhalla informally V Hall and The Emporium all boast a large number of customers on the weekends as well as many themed weekdays Recreation and the outdoors edit The university has the 160 000 square foot 15 000 m2 Student Recreation Center SRC which was the largest student recreation center in the United States when it was opened in 2001 51 The SRC contains a 1 8 mile 0 2 km elevated indoor track four basketball courts two volleyball courts roller hockey rink four racquetball courts swimming pool 50 person Jacuzzi free weights weight machines cardio equipment exercise instruction rooms outdoor sand volleyball courts and a low to high ropes course The campus also has several other basketball courts dance rooms a climbing wall and the Outdoor Recreation Center where students can check out equipment or register for various events and trips The seven mile 11 km Bill Chipman Palouse Trail links Pullman with Moscow and links to the Latah Trail to Troy 22 miles 35 km from WSU Another bike trail wraps around the Pullman campus about eight miles or 13 kilometres long The school has an intramural program and club sports are also very popular on campus The university also has The Chinook a 69 000 square foot space designed for students It features fitness facilities study spaces social spaces for events and Freshens Fresh Food Studio The campus added a 7 305 yard 6 680 m championship golf course in 2008 Palouse Ridge a 12 3 million project opened on August 29 It intends to improve the school s golf teams provide a laboratory for students in turf grass courses and give boosters and alumni a new reason to visit the campus From the back tees Crimson the course rating is 75 9 with a slope rating of 140 52 It replaces a sub standard 9 hole course that was built in 1923 and was mostly unimproved It closed in 2006 for the redesign to create Palouse Ridge on the same site and adjacent land The UI Golf Course in Moscow also offers student rates It opened in 1937 and added its second nine in 1970 the back tees are at 6 637 yards 6 069 m with a course rating of 72 4 and a slope rating of 135 53 Within 35 miles 56 km many students have the option to hike at Kamiak Butte and Steptoe Butte Moscow Mountain at 4 983 feet 1 519 m in the Palouse Range in Idaho provides opportunities for hiking and mountain biking For aquatic adventures students can cliff jump or boat at the Snake River Farther out white river rafting downhill skiing and hiking in the nearby foothills of the Rocky Mountains are available WSU formerly operated its own alpine ski area in Idaho the North South Ski Bowl which was sold in the early 1980s Arboretum and Botanical Garden edit The WSU Arboretum Committee continues to develop an Arboretum and Botanical Garden on a hilltop adjacent to the Lewis Alumni Center In addition about 95 acres 38 ha on the east edge of campus has been identified for a more expansive Arboretum and Botanical Garden including a wildlife center 54 Students interested in contributing to the development of the WSU Arboretum are working with the Native Plant amp Landscape Restoration Nursery to help establish tree plantings future habitat restoration sites or native plant displays that may be part of a campus green belt design Environmental record and sustainability initiatives edit Energy use on campus edit WSU has one LEED silver certified building on campus and two more buildings that meet LEED silver standards but are not certified The university has also encouraged the use of energy efficient lighting energy management systems and insulating steam lines to reduce wasted power 55 Energy profile edit WSU s energy is generated in part by an on campus steam plant powered by natural gas with diesel fuel back up This accounts for 38 of carbon emissions or 53 922 metric tonnes eCO2 out of 136 166 metric tons total The remaining carbon emissions is predominantly the result of purchased electricity 52 with less than 10 the result of commuting air travel refrigerant leaks and waste incineration 56 The university has committed to lowering carbon emissions 36 below 2005 levels by 2035 though thus far emission levels have remained relatively flat 57 WSU is active in clean energy research 58 though the campus does not currently have any renewable energy installations 55 Energy investments edit WSU does not currently commit to establishing a committee or policy that supports climate and sustainability shareholder proposals at companies where the endowment funds are invested 59 The university is exploring investing in renewable energy but otherwise is focused on optimizing investment returns Proxy voting is not possible due to the fact the endowment fund is entirely invested in comingled investment vehicles 55 Sustainability edit The university promotes on campus sustainability primarily though the Sustainability and Environment Committee 60 and the ASWSU Environmental Task Force Undergraduates who have an idea to improve campus sustainability can apply for funding from the Cougar Green Fund which is funded by an optional 5 student fee WSU also provides a free bikeshare system through its Greenbike program Museums and collections edit nbsp Public artThe Museum of Art WSU has several permanent collections including the Ernest O Holland Collection given by the university s fourth president 61 and the Charles Orton Collection given by a former regent 62 Others are the Goya and Daumier Collections Chaplin Woodcuts Consortium Collections Meyer Shapiro Print Collection Elwood Collection and Marian E Smith Collection of Northwest glass art Other permanent collections contain works by Northwest artists D Griffin Mark Tobey Kenneth Callahan Margaret Tomkins and former faculty members from WSU and the University of Washington 63 The university also has an extensive collection of outdoor art on its Pullman campus Pieces range from a life size bronze book figure Bookin by Terry Allen to Palouse Columns 2003 by Robert Maki to The Technicolor Heart a fourteen foot painted bronze work by Jim Dine 64 A large part of WSU s public art collection is made possible by the percent for art Art in Public Places program of the Washington State Arts Commission 65 Beginning in 2005 the Museum of Art began organizing its own traveling exhibitions These exhibitions including works by Roy Lichtenstein Gaylen Hansen and Chris Jordan have been seen across the country Between 2005 and 2011 exhibitions organized by the Museum of Art will have traveled to 20 museums in 11 states and will have been seen by more than 300 000 people The Museum has also published 6 trade books since 2004 The Museum of Art s latest exhibition publication Running the Numbers an American self portrait features essays by Chris Bruce Paul Hawken and Lucy R Lippard Several other museums and collections are found on the WSU Pullman campus One of the largest is the Charles R Conner Museum of Natural History exhibiting more than 700 mounts of birds and mammals and possessing more than 65 000 research specimens The Connor Museum has its roots in an 1894 gift of the state of Washington s exhibits from the Chicago s World s Fair encouraged by then President of the Board of Regents Charles R Conner Located on the first floor of Abelson Hall the museum is open 8 a m 5 p m daily except major holidays 66 The Museum of Anthropology with archaeological and ethnographic collections also draws visitors Open 9 a m 4 p m Monday through Friday during the school year the museum has varied exhibits and special events It also has a collection of objects representing the culture of Native American tribes in the Inland Northwest and is an official repository for archaeological collections from Eastern Washington 67 Also at WSU are the Harold E Culver Collection with fossils of pre historic animals the Lyle and Lela Jacklin Collection of Silicified Wood amp Minerals and S Elroy McCaw Fluorescent Mineral Display 68 Research collections include an Historic Costume and Textiles Collection the Maurice T James Entomological Collection the Marion Ownbey Herbarium the Mycological Herbarium and the Henry W Smith Soil Monolith Collection Organization and administration editThe university offers bachelor s master s and doctoral degrees in 200 fields of study through 65 departments schools and programs citation needed Colleges edit These departments schools and programs are organized into 10 academic colleges as follows College of Agricultural Human and Natural Resource Sciences College of Arts and Sciences Carson College of Business Edward R Murrow College of Communication College of Education Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture Elson S Floyd College of Medicine College of Nursing College of Pharmacy College of Veterinary MedicineIn addition WSU has an all university honors college a graduate school an online global campus and an accredited intensive English program for non native speakers the Intensive American Language Center 69 Board of regents edit Washington State University is chartered by the State of Washington A board of regents governs the university and provides direction to the president There are ten regents appointed by the governor nine of whom serve six year terms citation needed The tenth is a student regent appointed on an annual basis 70 A bill adding an eleventh regent who would be a full time or emeritus faculty member stalled in the Washington legislature in 2018 71 Currently the regents are Theodor P Baseler Brett Blankenship Scott E Carson Marty Dickinson Ron Sims Jordan Frost student Lura J Powell Heather Redman Lisa K Schauer and Michael C Worthy 72 73 Leadership edit nbsp Current WSU President Kirk SchulzKirk Schulz currently serves as WSU s president and chief executive officer Daniel Bernardo currently serves as provost and handles academics research and faculty matters for WSU statewide The former president Elson Floyd also the former president of University of Missouri System succeeded V Lane Rawlins on May 21 2007 and served until his death on June 20 2015 Bernardo was formerly dean of the WSU College of Agricultural Human and Natural Resource Sciences citation needed WSU has had 11 presidents in its 125 year history George W Lilley 1891 1892 John W Heston 1892 1893 Enoch A Bryan 1893 1915 Ernest O Holland 1916 1944 Wilson M Compton 1945 1951 C Clement French 1952 1966 Glenn Terrell 1967 1985 Samuel H Smith 1985 2000 V Lane Rawlins 2000 2007 Elson S Floyd 2007 2015 and Kirk Schulz 2016 74 Former acting president Bernardo is not counted among those nor are previous acting presidents William Pearl 1951 1952 and Wallis Beasley 1966 1967 75 WSU Foundation edit The WSU Foundation is an independent private corporation with its own board of governors and chief executive officer that serves as a fundraising organization for the university 76 The board chair is Judy Rogers 77 Faculty edit The faculty senate serves as the sounding board for the more than 2 261 faculty members citation needed All major academic decisions must be approved by the senate citation needed The senate is composed of representatives from each academic college and department and from all five WSU campuses citation needed Academics editUndergraduate admissions edit For the 2022 2023 rankings U S News amp World Report reported WSU undergraduate admissions as less selective with an acceptance rate of 86 78 Of the undergraduates admitted in the fall of 2016 40 7 graduated in four years and including the four year rate 61 5 graduated in six years 79 Fall freshman statistics 80 81 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008Applicants 23 223 19 766 18 563 14 887 14 825 14 071 12 427 12 478 11 983Admits 16 731 15 742 15 017 12 219 11 268 11 601 8 634 9 489 8 677 admitted 72 0 79 6 80 9 82 1 76 0 82 4 69 4 76 0 72 4Enrolled 4 527 4 727 4 458 4 163 4 389 4 473 3 288 3 668 3 710Avg GPA 3 40 3 32 3 29 3 29 3 30 3 35 3 44 3 42 3 48WSU does not require students to submit SAT ACT test scores as part of the applicationprocess and does not use them in admission decisions 82 Curriculum and fields of study edit WSU has 12 colleges and a graduate school The liberal arts and sciences have an important place in the curriculum along with business communication education architecture pharmacy nursing and the traditional land grant disciplines of agriculture engineering and veterinary medicine WSU offers more than 200 fields of study including 98 majors 86 minors options and over 140 graduate and professional degrees 83 84 Bachelor s degrees are available in all major areas with master s and doctoral degrees available in most The undergraduate core curriculum including the writing program is nationally recognized 85 better source needed peacock prose WSU confers nearly 5 900 bachelor s master s professional and doctoral degrees statewide in a typical year WSU employs over 1 400 instructional faculty members Rankings edit Academic rankingsNationalARWU 86 100 117Forbes 87 231U S News amp World Report 88 212Washington Monthly 89 48WSJ College Pulse 90 176GlobalARWU 91 401 500QS 92 419THE 93 301 350U S News amp World Report 94 328 National Program Rankings 95 Program RankingBiological Sciences 98Chemistry 88Clinical Psychology 70Computer Science 75Criminology 25Earth Sciences 68Economics 78Engineering 75English 99Fine Arts 89Health Care Management 55History 79Mathematics 101Nursing Schools Bachelor s 93Nursing Schools Master s 45Nursing Schools Doctorate 25Pharmacy 40Physics 83Political Science 81Psychology 112Public Affairs 117Sociology 42Speech Language Pathology 72Statistics 72Veterinary Medicine 14 Global Program Rankings 96 Program RankingAgricultural Sciences 34Biology amp Biochemistry 356Chemistry 352Clinical Medicine 341Engineering 295Environment Ecology 202Materials Science 269Microbiology 196Molecular Biology amp Genetics 312Physics 444Plant amp Animal Science 57Social Sciences amp Public Health 219 WSU was ranked tied for 212th of National Universities tied for 107th among Top Public Schools tied for 140th of Best Colleges for Veterans tied for 197th in Top Performers on Social Mobility and 177th of Best Value Schools as published in the 2022 2023 U S News amp World Report rankings 78 In these rankings it was also ranked tied for 75th Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs whose highest degree is a doctorate 78 WSU s College of Veterinary Medicine ranked 14th out of 28 evaluated by U S News amp World Report in 2019 97 The Academic Ranking of World Universities ARWU in 2020 ranked WSU in the 95 114 range nationally and in the 301 400 range globally WSU was ranked 400th in the world by the QS World University Rankings for 2020 WSU Libraries edit The WSU Libraries 98 coordinate the administration of three major libraries on the WSU Pullman campus Holland Terrell and Owen Science amp Engineering Libraries and three libraries off the Pullman campus WSU Health Sciences library and the WSU Tri Cities and WSU Vancouver libraries The WSU Libraries also participates in the Orbis Cascade Alliance 99 a consortium of 38 university and college libraries in Washington and Oregon offering the Summit catalog and an inter library loan system The WSU Libraries participates in the Greater Western Library Alliance GWLA 100 a consortium of 39 research libraries in the central and western United States WSU Libraries uses ILLiad RAPID Rapido Ex Libris and DOCLINE for document delivery The WSU Libraries is a member of the Association of Research Libraries WSU Libraries employs faculty librarians and paraprofessional staff in addition to student workers 101 The WSU Libraries holds 2 266 616 print volumes and WSU faculty and students downloaded 2 022 603 from its licensed online collections in 2012 102 Research edit nbsp Homer J Dana Hall 1948 25 College of Engineering and ArchitectureAccording to the National Science Foundation WSU spent 360 million on research and development in 2018 ranking it 71st in the nation 103 Research and scholarship at WSU is rooted in agriculture natural for a land grant university The institution s first leader George W Lilley 1891 1892 was both president of the then named Washington Agricultural College and School of Science and director of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Station Subjects taught by the first five faculty members included agriculture botany horticulture forestry and veterinary science In 1894 the sixth faculty member William Jasper Spillman arrived to teach plant science and mathematics and serve as the first wheat breeder 104 The WSU wheat research and breeding program continues to serve the Washington wheat industry the sixth largest industry in the nation in 2008 2009 105 The state s wheat growers work closely with WSU researchers on development of new wheat varieties that meet their needs 106 107 The university s food and agriculture research helps sustain the state s annual 29 billion food industry Faculty partnered with agriculture interests to create today s 3 billion a year wine grape business 108 The Apple Genome Project draws collaboration from scientists worldwide to map the apple genome research aimed at supporting the apple industry Food science is another long time research field at WSU Work in the 1940s on types of cheese suitable for storing in cans or tins led to creation of now award winning Cougar Gold cheese a white cheddar produced at the WSU Creamery with milk from the university s dairy herd 109 In 2009 the Food and Drug Administration FDA approved the use of microwave energy for producing pre packaged low acid foods and WSU professor Juming Tang led development of the technology by university industry and U S military scientists 110 In terms of productivity WSU plant sciences faculty rank No 2 in the nation animal sciences faculty rank fourth and food science faculty rank sixth according to Academic Analytics 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index 111 In addition WSU agricultural studies have helped shape U S public policy by showing how sustainable farming practices sidestep the environmental hazards of conventional agriculture The Climate Friendly Farming project helps farmers adopt methods that mitigate global climate change 112 Research in agriculture is a strength for WSU where the university has led in research and development funding from the US Department of Agriculture 113 Veterinary medicine and animal health are also important research areas at WSU In 2008 a 25 million grant from the Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation funded a large share of the cost for a research facility for a new WSU School for Global Animal Health Its scientists address global infectious disease challenges by detecting diseases within animal populations and controlling their transmission The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at WSU works closely with the U S Department of Agriculture and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop and deploy diagnostic tests for livestock diseases In the area of clean technologies university researchers work to raise the efficiency and reliability of the nation s electrical power grid improve air quality forecasting in the Northwest and conduct cooperative research projects under the United States Department of Energy s Nuclear Energy Research Initiative NERI Scholars are developing an algae based biofuel that consumes greenhouse gases in its production and are working to patent nanospring technology that would fit into an ordinary gas tank solving the problem of hydrogen storage In 2001 WSU professor M Grant Norton and University of Idaho physics professor David McIlroy were the first scientists to create nanosprings 114 WSU is also home to one of the few remaining nuclear research reactors in the country The Nuclear Radiation Center is a 1 MW TRIGA conversion reactor built in 1961 during President Eisenhower s Atoms for Peace initiative It is a very potent research tool utilized by WSU s radiochemistry graduate program as well as providing education on the nuclear industry to the public through talks and facility tours Other recent research highlights include studies of the effects of sleep and sleep loss on human cognitive functioning work to advance shock compression science with contracts awarded to the WSU Institute for Shock Physics by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and the department of energy and a program funded by the National Science Foundation that trains doctoral students to analyze evolutionary processes citation needed Reproductive biologist Patricia A Hunt was named one of the top 50 researchers of 2007 by Scientific American for her work showing a potential threat to human health posed by bisphenol A BPA a component of the polycarbonate plastics used to make food and beverage containers 115 Over the years WSU research and scholarship included the 1968 discovery of the Marmes Man at the Marmes Rockshelter in southeastern Washington the nation s oldest human remains at that time the development of high yielding dwarf wheat discovery of insect resistance to pesticides and creation of a method to store cheese in tins which led to the university s well known and still produced Cougar Gold Cheese 116 WSU fruit breeders have developed many varieties for the state including in 1952 the sweet yellow Rainier cherry and in 2010 an apple specifically for Washington named Cosmic Crisp 117 Outreach and public service edit The WSU Extension has offices in each of Washington s 39 counties providing training and assistance in agricultural practices natural resource management human and life skills diversity understanding and outreach the state 4 H program and many other programs In 1973 in Seattle WSU Extension founded the now national Master Gardener Programs of trained volunteers 118 WSU Extension faculty and staff have also provided assistance for programs in under developed and developing countries Many faculty members have appointments to do research teach and provide extension services The State of Washington s network of Small Business Development Centers is a cooperative effort of Washington State University other public educational institutions economic development organizations and the US Small Business Administration A source of counsel on starting and growing small firms the centers are found in 17 locations in Western Washington and seven location in Eastern and Central Washington 119 The WSU Creamery an outreach and teaching program has garnered a reputation for fine dairy products most notably the Cougar Gold cheese sold at the creamery store Ferdinand s as well as online and at some local Pullman stores The cheese is regionally famous and fetches a starting price of 22 for a 30 oz can Cougar Gold is marketed as a white sharp cheddar with a taste that resembles Swiss or Gouda and is aged for at least one year Cougar Cheese also comes in other varieties including American Cheddar Smoky Cheddar Viking Dill Garlic Sweet Basil Hot Pepper and Crimson Fire Washington State University Press each year publishes an average of eight titles that focus on the American West with particular emphasis on the prehistory history environment politics and culture of the greater Northwest region A member of the Association of University Presses 120 the WSU Press publishes in varied genres including scholarly and trade monographs reminiscences essays biographies and works that tell the story of the West in innovative ways 121 Through the Center for Civic Engagement on the Pullman campus students participate in an estimated 30 000 hours annually of credit and non credit service activities in the community 122 In 2008 the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching granted WSU its Community Engagement elective classification both for curricular engagement and for outreach and partnerships 123 WSU operates a research extension out of Prosser Washington AgWeatherNet 124 AWN provides access to current and historical weather data from Washington State University s automated weather station network along with a range of models and decision aids citation needed The weather data advisories weather data products and decision support systems provided by AgWeatherNet and WSU can help improve production and product quality optimize resource use and reduce environmental impact citation needed Student life editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Washington State University news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2016 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp The Center for Undergraduate EducationUndergraduate demographics as of Fall 2020 Race and ethnicity 125 TotalWhite 60 60 Hispanic 17 17 Other a 9 9 Asian 6 6 Foreign national 4 4 Black 3 3 Economic diversityLow income b 27 27 Affluent c 73 73 Student life on WSU s Pullman campus is influenced by a variety of student organizations and their committees Open to all students they create educational entertaining and cultural programming for WSU students and the local community Committees include Asian Pacific American Student Coalition APASC Black Student Union BSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance ESA Gender and Sexuality Alliance GSA International Students Council ISC Ku Ah Mah KZUU Radio Middle Eastern Students Association MESA Movimiento Estudianti Chicano de Aztian MEChA Student Legal Services SLS Veteran s Student Committee and GIVE on the Pullman Campus There are also more than 300 registered student organisations RSOs that cover many interests All ASWSU committees are members of Committee Squared the coalition of all ASWSU Committee leaders ASWSU also consists of the President and Vice President who oversee the Executive Staff The staff consists of a variety of directors and assistant directors advancing student causes via student life diversity affairs campus life and others The 23 member Senate represents students via academic colleges as well as the Honors College and Freshman class The Senate meets weekly to debate legislation hear reports from the Executive Staff and appoint the various officers of ASWSU The Senate also provides financial support to the nearly 400 registered student organizations on campus via the Senate Finance Committee Finally the Election Board and the Judicial Board complete the association There are several other influential student organizations Interfraternity Council Panhellenic Council the United Greek Council and the National Pan Hellenic Council are governmental bodies for university recognized Greek social organizations The Residence Hall Association is a government body for students in the residence halls governing all of the residence halls on campus excluding McEachern and Stimson Halls It is the second biggest registered student organization at Washington State representing about 4 700 on campus resident students The board of directors of the Students Book Corporation has a total of nine directors Five are students at WSU two are faculty and two are administrative directors These people oversees the non profit campus bookstore separate from WSU 126 The Students Book Corporation provides a 10 point of sale discount On average the dividend total has been about 85 000 This is then received at ASWSU organizations at each campus to be distributed to various groups and activities 126 The Compton Union Board CUB oversees the management of the student union building and its services The University Recreation Board oversees the management of university recreation The Student Alumni Connection hosts several major campus events The Student Entertainment Board SEB is a student led board composed of undergraduate students Positions on the board include Spotlight Films Up All Night Lectures CUB Gallery Concerts VPLAC Visual Performing and Literary Arts Committee Special Event Homecoming and Springfest associate director and Director They are responsible for bringing diverse arts amp entertainment to campus The Coalition for Women Students provides much of the multicultural programs on campus including the annual minority women symposium the Week Without Violence and Take Back the Night rally and march CWS is made up of Association for Pacific and Asian Women Black Women s Caucus Mujeres Unidas Native American Women s Association and the YWCA of WSU The organization also funds the all volunteer Women s Transit a safe door to door transportation program for women who would otherwise walk alone at night Student government edit WSU has two representative student body organizations the Associated Students of Washington State University ASWSU founded in 1915 and the Graduate and Professional Students Association GPSA founded about 1970 In recent years the student body completed several major projects on campus In addition to passing a 15 transportation fee to increase Pullman Transit s service the student body also voted to remodel the Compton Union Building The building closed in May 2006 and re opened in August 2008 In March 2006 ASWSU voted to support the renovation of Martin Stadium adding 25 per semester to undergraduate student fees Associated Students of Washington State University edit Main article Associated Students of Washington State University ASWSU s organizational framework is similar to that of most American governments complete with an appointed and confirmed judiciary elected representatives from districts to a senate and an annually elected president and vice president team The president also has a paid staff led by the chief of staff ranging in size from 6 12 members depending on the year Graduate and Professional Students Association edit GPSA is similar but differs in that it lacks a judiciary or a paid staff The GPSA is centered on the senate which is composed of a large number of senators that represent different graduate and professional programs The GPSA also has an executive Council that consists of the GPSA President vice presidents and nine District Representatives elected from the nine colleges of WSU Media edit nbsp Horizon Air Q400 in unique WSU liveryWashington State Magazine is the alumni and research magazine of Washington State University Published quarterly the magazine covers news and issues of interest to Washington State University faculty staff students alumni and the people of Washington The magazine was first published in 2001 127 Before Washington State Magazine WSU alumni news was published in HillTopics from 1969 to 2000 and The PowWow the alumni magazine from 1910 to 1969 128 Research news at the university appeared in Universe magazine in the 1990s 129 WSU News is the university s official news website and daily e newsletter 130 for faculty staff and graduate students The Daily Evergreen is Washington State University s student newspaper 131 The first issue of the Evergreen was published in 1895 WSU broadcast media include Northwest Public Radio and Television the network of public radio and television stations in the Northwest owned and operated by Washington State University NWPR s flagship station KWSU 1250 in Pullman signed on December 10 1922 as KFAE became KWSC in 1925 and then KWSU in the 1960s WSU alumnus Edward R Murrow got his start in radio at KWSC 132 Cable 8 Productions is a local student operated cable TV channel serving WSU and the Pullman Moscow area 133 KZUU 90 7 FM a non commercial college radio station is a service of ASWSU 134 It gained FCC approval in 1979 135 KUGR Sports Rock is a student operated online radio station 136 Among the students who operate these media are broadcasting students in WSU s Edward R Murrow College of Communication Song edit The Fight Song is the school s fight song It was composed in 1919 by students Phyllis Sayles and lyrics were written by Zella Melcher as a class project 137 The lyrics are found on the Washington State University visitor website 138 Additionally Washington State has embraced Andy Grammer s Back Home in recent years featured prominently during sporting events and appearing on merchandise sold by the university Athletics editMain article Washington State Cougars Washington State University is a member of the Pac 12 Conference The school s mascot is Butch T Cougar and the school s colors are crimson and gray Varsity athletics include men s baseball basketball cross country football golf and track and field as well as women s basketball cross country golf rowing soccer swimming volleyball tennis and track and field In the past WSU had varsity programs of boxing wrestling gymnastics and men s swimming In 1917 WSU won its first national championship in men s basketball In 1937 Roy Petragallo and Ed McKinnon won the NCAA boxing championship another national championship The Cougars third and most recent national championship was earned in 1977 in indoor track and field nbsp Martin Stadium in 2012 home of Cougar footballUniversity Recreation also supports 26 club sports including bowling men s crew cricket cycling equestrian show team men s and women s flag football fencing polo men s and women s ice hockey judo men s lacrosse logger sports rodeo men s rugby union women s rugby sailing ski team men s soccer women s fast pitch softball taekwondo triathlon Ultimate men s and women s volleyball water polo and wrestling nbsp Cougar fans celebrate afterthe Apple Cup win in 2004Washington State s biggest rival is the University of Washington Huskies Strong rivalries also exist between WSU and the other Pac 12 teams of the Pacific Northwest the University of Oregon Ducks and Oregon State University Beavers WSU s closest geographic rival is the University of Idaho Vandals a fellow land grant school only seven miles 11 km east of Pullman across the state line in Moscow Conference rivals until 1959 their rivalry football game the Battle of the Palouse was played on an annual basis from 1901 until 1978 when the NCAA Division I split After Idaho returned to Division I A a renewed series lasted a decade from 1998 until 2007 The renewed series was dropped from the schedule due to the Cougars continued dominance of the Vandals in the series and each school s ability to generate more revenue by playing other opponents Vandal head coach Robb Akey a former WSU defensive coordinator preferred the game as an occasional rather regular attraction On hiatus for five seasons it returned for one year in 2013 139 Notable alumni and faculty editMain article List of Washington State University people The university has 196 257 living alumni in fall 2015 according to WSU Quick Facts 83 Among the 39 WSU alumni to receive the Regents Distinguished Alumnus Award since 1962 are recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Irwin Rose attended one year graduated University of Chicago broadcaster Edward R Murrow journalist Ana Cabrera Microsoft co founder Paul Allen dropped out astronaut John M Fabian cartoonist Gary Larson action movie star Dolph Lundgren attended one year molecular evolutionist Allan Wilson Master s degree banking executive Phyllis J Campbell painter and pioneer of Abstract Expressionism Clyfford Still Master s degree Canadian Football League player and champion George Reed Entrepreneur Clint Hedin sociologist William Julius Wilson PhD author and film director Sherman Alexie attended veterinary researcher John Gorham wheat breeder Orville Vogel not a student physicist Philip Abelson and physician Neva Abelson 140 Donald Allen Duncan who managed Washington State s Varsity swim team in 1950 became Head Coach at Puget Sound University from 1957 to 1994 where he led the team to a notable record of 307 Wins 127 losses 141 142 143 1984 Olympic gold medalist in men s double sculls Paul Enquist started his rowing career at Washington State Olympic marathon and middle distance runner Bernard Lagat ran NCAA track and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in management information systems 2000 Medal of Honor recipients Colonel James P Fleming and Staff Sergeant Ronald Shurer are both Washington State University alumni Colonel Fleming entered the Air Force after receiving his commission through ROTC at Washington State in 1966 Staff Sergeant Shurer attended Washington State from 1997 to 2002 earning a bachelor s degree in business administration and starting an MBA before enlisting in the US Army Counterculture icon Timothy Leary received a graduate degree from Washington State in the mid 1940s 144 Musician Krist Novoselic earned a BSc in social sciences from Washington State 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