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May 19, 2021
Mikaela Thepvongsa (third from right), WSU Tri-Cities nursing alumna, and fellow students worked with the Kadlec Foundation to get a set of iPads donated to Grace Clinic and the Tri-City Union Gospel Mission in an effort to expand options for translation for clients and patients.
By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities
Two nonprofits that provide free medical and social services to community members in the regional Tri‑Cities now have iPads to help expand access to translation and interpreting services. The access to the technology was made possible by a partnership with Washington State University Tri‑Cities nursing students and the Kadlec Foundation.
May 17, 2021
By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities
Washington State University Tri-Cities is again contracting with Rite Aid to host a public COVID-19 vaccination clinic on May 19 on campus. Second doses will be administered as part of a second campus clinic on June 9.
Sign-up for a vaccination appointment or volunteer
The clinic will be hosted from 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. in the WSU Tri-Cities Consolidated Information Center (CIC) during both days: 2770 University Dr. in Richland. Sign-up for an appointment at q-r.to/wsuclinic.
Individuals can also sign-up to volunteer for the clinic. The form defines three-hour blocks. If individuals are available during other hours, they should indicate those in the “other” box.
‘Like science fiction,’ Seattle startup sends laser-equipped robots to zap weeds on farmland By Heidi Groover, The Seattle Times
Published: April 18, 2021, 3:33pm
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When vegetable farmer Shay Myers needs to weed 30 acres of organic onions, he’s typically hired a crew of around 30 people for a day of work that can be tedious, including sometimes using pocket knives to carve away weeds around the onions. This season, he hopes to use two robots instead.
Myers is an early user of a Seattle-based robotics company’s “autonomous weeder,” a tractor-sized machine that uses lasers to kill weeds.
The first sight of the machine in a field of crops “was like science fiction,” said Myers, who grows hundreds of acres of onions, asparagus, sweet potatoes and other vegetables in Idaho and Oregon. He expects the machines “should pay for themselves in two or three years.”
April 12, 2021
David J. Allard
RICHLAND, Wash. – Past and ongoing efforts to address radium contaminated sites in Pennsylvania, which influenced future protocols and uses for radium around the world, will be discussed as part of a Herbert M. Parker lecture that will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21, via YouTube.
The lecture will be presented live on the Washington State University Tri-Cities YouTube channel. It is free and open to the public.
David J. Allard, director of the Pennsylvania State Bureau of Radiation Protection, will address the historical benefits of radium, as well as its health effects on workers and members of the public. The presentation will also illustrate how the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has led in radium-related research and controls, including the ongoing efforts to monitor and mitigate radon in buildings from natural-occurring radium in soil, as well as a recent extensive evaluation of radium that returns with oil and gas production.