Campus-specific achievements
WSU Tri-Cities
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Grand Opening: New Student Union Building
- First entirely student-centered building at WSU-TC
- Includes multipurpose event space, gathering space, student government offices
- Students approved fee to fund building and worked 5 years to see their vision completed
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Research: Impact of Climate Change on Military Operations
- Yonas Demissie halfway through $1M, 4-yr. Dept. of Defense project
- Focus on whether defense infrastructure and facilities can handle increased flooding and abnormal fluctuations in precipitation
- Yonas concentrates research on monitoring, exploring, evaluating water issues
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Student Team Earns CleanTech Big Picture Prize at UW Business Competition
- Project: Process to transform lignin into environment-friendly jet fuel
- Technology developed by professor Bin Yang’s lab in Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Lab
- Team: Libing Zhang, recent doctoral alumna, and Manuel Seubert and Taylor Pate, MBA students
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Partnership with Thai, Canadian Universities
- Language and cultural exchange program with Vanwest College from Vancouver, British Columbia, and Mahasarakham University from Talat, Thailand
- Students will gain language exploration, competency experiences, cultural components, networking
- MOU signed in July and effective immediately
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Team Wins Top Honors at World Conference for Distilled Spirits Analysis
- Poster presented at Worldwide Distilled Spirits Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, in July
- Researchers applied technique used to evaluate characteristics of wine to distilled spirits
- WSU team: wine science postdoctoral researcher Caroline Merrell and professors Jim Harbertson and Tom Collins
- Research showed importance of barrel selection in making distilled spirits
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WSU Everett
Grand Opening: WSU Everett Building
- Ribbon-cutting and open house August 15; first classes August 21
- Tangible evidence of WSU’s commitment to Everett and the North Puget Sound region
- Campus focus: Delivery of high-demand degrees in STEM fields and graduating students job-ready in fields which the North Puget Sound area needs for economic growth
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Ray Stephanson Leadership Scholarship
- Boeing creating WSU Everett’s first endowed scholarship in the name of Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson
- Mayor’s leadership, partnership, hard work paved the way for WSU Everett
- Scholarship will be awarded each year to a WSU Everett student in a technical field who has demonstrated leadership skills
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Impact of Medical Students on Everett Campus and Community
- Will change face of health care in Washington
- 15 medical students will complete clinical training locally with partners like Providence Regional Medical Center and The Everett Clinic in their third- and fourth-year studies
- The Everett-based students just completed first of six, one-week clinical intersessions in Everett community
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Engineering Club Named Affiliate of Society of Women Engineers
- WSU Everett Society of Women Engineering
- Adds another strong student organization to educational experience in Everett
- Evidence of commitment to providing a transformational student experience
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WSU Vancouver
Total Enrollment at WSU Vancouver Up 14.5% Since Fall, 2013
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Tod and Maxine McClaskey Foundation Gift
- $2 million gift to establish endowed chair in hospitality business management at WSU Vancouver
- First endowed chair for Vancouver campus
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Graduation of 1,014 Students in May
- First time in WSU Vancouver’s history the number of graduates has topped 1,000
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Launch of 4 New Academic Programs Last Year
Undergraduate
- B.A. Entrepreneurship
- B.A. Integrated Strategic Communication
- B.S. Mathematics
Graduate
- M.S. Electrical Engineering
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Increased External Grants from $2M to $5M
- 2016 vs. 2017
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Global Campus
Global Campus Enrollment Up 26.6% Since Fall, 2013
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Added 4 New Degree Programs, Fall, 2017
- M.S. Software Engineering
- B.S. Data Analytics
- B.S. Economic Sciences
- B.A. Integrated Strategic Communications
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Established Streamlined Process for Offering New High-impact WSU Degrees Online
- Currently working to develop 7 new online degree programs for 2018
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Established WSU Global Campus Excellence in Teaching Award
- First recipient: Katy Whalen Fry, clinical assistant professor of history, 2016-17