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Connecting Washington State University, the State and the World: Washington State Magazine

 
 
• Spring 2002 •



Cover Story
Nurses to the homeless

by Andrea Vogt
photography by Robert Hubner

Gypsy's camp is evidence of the harsh living conditions faced by a growing number of homeless in Spokane. It also doubles as a classroom, and a lesson in reality, for student nurses.

Features

   

A campus full of wonders

by Tim Steury

All over campus, curiosities emerged from closets to form one of the most popular and unusual shows ever to fill the art museum.

 
Visit these campus collections and museums  

What don't we know?

by James Krueger and Tim Steury

James Krueger wants to know why the average person will spend 219,000 hours asleep.

 

Memories are made of this

by Tim Steury
Illustrations by David Wheeler

Neuroscientists Jay Wright and Joe Harding can approximate Alzheimer's symptoms in a rat by injecting a certain protein into its hippocampus. What's more, they can reverse those symptoms.

 

Catherine Mathews Friel is thankful for . . .Life in a small college town

by Pat Caraher

Catherine Friel has lived in Pullman nearly 100 years, and she has some stories to tell.

 

The Peking Cowboy

a short story by Alex Kuo
illustrations by David Wheeler

He wanted to tell the story in the third person, but it came out in the first; he wanted to tell it in the past, but it came out happening in the now; even if he wanted to, he could not change a word of it, its sequence and language clarifying its own shape and direction inhis voice.

 

Opening Day . . .
a great way to reunite Cougars

by Pat Caraher

Cougars batten their hatches and hoist their mainsails.

 
The Elmore
Dee and Sara Meek bring historic tug back to life
 

Panoramas

 
Lots of merit in biochem  
Feminae Romanae!  
Better chow  
The liberal art of judgment  
Finding what's right for you  
Mendez named dad of the year  
What's killing Lassie?  
Mooney banking on improved pitching  
Women's team strong, men's team well-balanced  
The Cougars win their place in the sun  
The other side of the coin  
"You'll miss it"  
It came from outer space  
A salon of their own  

Tracking the Cougars

 
Shanthi delivers 325-pound calf  
For this alum, age is no obstacle
Treatments for congestive heart failure focus of study
 
Play-by-play announcer calls 500th football game  
It's in the blood  
Coe earns Gibson Award for volunteer service  
Maloney honored for contributions to wood materials engineering  
New graduates entering a different world  
Robert Bates named University provost  
Alumni president Ed Little:
"I always wanted to work with children"