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  • Improving Health Worldwide

    The Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health is working to find innovative solutions to global infectious disease challenges.

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  • Moving Forward

    For the first time in five years, legislators in Olympia passed a budget that does not require additional cuts in higher education.

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  • Building Health Sciences

    The state legislature approves funding for a new Biomedical and Health Sciences building at WSU Spokane.

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  • Online Success

    WSU’s Global Campus
    launches in July.

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  • Paying It Forward

    Despite rising insurance costs, WSU graduate students on assistantships will not see rate increases.

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  • Healthy Investment

    Chuck and Louanna Eggert’s $5 million gift to WSU will create the largest organic teaching farm on a university campus.

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President Elson S. Floyd

Elson S. Floyd, was named President of the four-campus Washington State University on December 13, 2006. He took office as the 10th president of Washington State's land-grant research university on May 21, 2007.

He leads one of America's most productive research universities. WSU is classified among the nation's 96 leading public and private universities with very high research activity by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Dr. Floyd brings to WSU an exceptionally wide range of administrative experience, as well as valuable state and national perspectives on higher education issues and policies.

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Blog Highlights

May

21

2012

Comments made to the Board of Governors last Thursday

BUDGET: • After years of disinvestment and declining state [...]

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May

01

2012

New signs will greet visitors

New WSU banners are being placed along the various routes [...]

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Nov

13

2011

Great night at Martin Stadium

My sincere thanks and appreciation to all of our students [...]

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