April 30, 2021
Cougar Pride monument on the WSU Pullman campus
PULLMAN, Wash. – Members of the Washington State University Board of Regents will meet virtually and in-person at WSU Health Sciences Spokane May 6 and 7.
Regents are expected to set tuition rates for the 2021-2022 academic year, review designs for WSU Vancouver’s new Life Sciences Building and consider revised athletics budgets and financial planning, among other actions. A complete agenda is available on the Board of Regents website.
Members of the public can watch committee meetings as well as the Friday Board of Regents meeting live on Youtube. Committee meetings begin at 9 a.m. Thursday will run throughout the afternoon. Friday’s Board of Regents meeting begins at 9 a.m.
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Students in a wildlife and wildlands conservation class have chosen and prepared plots of land at the Y Mountain trailhead to restore some of its natural plant life that has been destroyed or degraded by fires and toxic weeds. (Matthew Madsen)
Students and volunteers have collaborated to embark on a restoration and preservation project on the Y Mountain trailhead.
BYU restoration ecology professor Matthew Madsen oversees a wildlife and wildlands conservation class. A group of his students is leading the way to restore natural plant life at the trailhead on Y Mountain.
Senior Alyssa Brown said Madsen led the students in choosing and preparing plots of land at the Y Mountain trailhead to restore some of its natural plant life that has been destroyed or degraded by fires and toxic weeds.
State budget invests in Southwest Washington schools, community
WSUV, Washington School for the Deaf, Clark College to receive millions for projects
Published: April 27, 2021, 6:04am
Share: Washington State University Vancouver is seen in February 2018. (The Columbian files)
The Legislature passed a $6.3 billion capital budget Saturday, cementing a plan that includes major investments in Southwest Washington’s community and schools.
The biennial budget, which passed the House and the Senate unanimously, includes three major line items for local education facilities: $58.9 million for a new Clark College satellite campus in northern Clark County; $52.6 million for a new life sciences building at Washington State University Vancouver; and $55.1 million to the Washington School for the Deaf for a new academic and physical education building.
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UH Mānoa ʻohana,
As we near the end of the spring 2021 semester, I want to provide an update to my March 29 message about the fall 2021 semester. With four months to go before the first day of fall classes, we are definitely trending in the right direction in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Although we cannot possibly know exactly where that fight will be at the start of the semester, we remain cautiously optimistic. We continue to prepare for our campus reawakening with the health and wellbeing of our community as our highest priority.
The biggest obstacle to fully reopening our campus, especially in-person instruction, is the 6-foot physical distancing recommended by the federal, state and the university’s own health officials. It limits classroom capacity by as much as 70%, and we had to continue to adhere to it when the fall course schedule was set before quantifiable results of our nation’s mass vaccination campaign were available. The course schedule wi
The $171 million Life Sciences Building was completed in 2018 on UW’s Seattle campus.
The University of Washington Life Sciences Building and the Rainier Beach Clinic of Northwest Kidney Centers are among the winners in the 2021 COTE Top Ten Awards of the American Institute of Architects for their significant achievements in advancing climate action.