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Sp 3nw’s proposal was chosen for its unique framework to create a flexible infrastructure for resilient entrepreneurship, referred to as FIRE, which consists of support programs that spur regional economic development in eastern Washington and North Idaho. “We are thrilled to be chosen as a recipient in the Department of Commerce/Economic Development Administration’s competitive SPRINT challenge. This validates the sp 3nw program and its delivery of innovative life science to the region,” said Glenn Prestwich, who is both the principal investigator for the project and the director for...

March 17, 2021 By Sara Zaske, WSU News SPOKANE, Wash. – COVID-19 has created new problems for pregnant women in the United States, a group that already faced the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world even before the pandemic. One of their biggest concerns is their baby contracting the disease, according to a Washington State University study published recently in the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.  Some women expressed fears that simply going to the hospital to deliver would cause them to get the virus and then be forced to isolate from their newborn. “Pregnant wo...

March 16, 2021 Dr. Jim O’Connell SPOKANE, Wash. —Dr. Jim O’Connell, president of the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program and assistant professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, will give two virtual presentations on Wednesday, March 31, as part of WSU Health Sciences Spokane’s Robert F.E. Stier Lecture in Medicine. O’Connell will virtually present Medicine in the Streets: A team-based approach to caring for Boston’s Rough Sleepers, live on YouTube at noon on March 31. O’Connell will: Detail a model of street medicine that is integrated into the community as w...

February 25, 2021 Members of the WSU Men's Basketball Team wear shirts with the names of pioneering African Americans from the university's history as part of Black History Month. By RJ Wolcott, WSU News Cassandra Overby flourished with the support of her teammates in the early 1980s, earning accolades and setting WSU women’s basketball records. Overby’s 875 career rebounds set her atop school history as well as placing second all-time for career points and blocks. In 2015, she entered the Washington State University Athletic Hall of Fame alongside former track and field standout Pam Qual...

We are shocked and horrified by the antisemitic graffiti and damage to the Holocaust memorial at Temple Beth Shalom in Spokane on Monday. Standing together against antisemitism To our WSU community: We are shocked and horrified by the antisemitic graffiti and damage to the Holocaust memorial at Temple Beth Shalom in Spokane on Monday. While this desecration did not take place on our Spokane campus, we join our Jewish friends and neighbors as well as the greater community in denouncing these acts in the strongest terms possible. That this hate crime occurred just two weeks after I...