Cover Story
No hollow promise: Preparing teachers for their toughest assignment

by Ken Olson

Half of all new public-school teachers quit within five years, and the best and brightest are often the first to go. Worse, the attrition rate at high-needs schools is even greater. The CO-TEACH program at WSU decised to change this situation.

Features

A little bronze--strategically placed

by Tim Steury

Although it might be better known for wine and wheat, Walla Walla is also home to one of the most prominent fine-art foundries. For a short time this fall, 32 sculptures cast at the Walla Walla Foundry will reside at 13 locations across the Pullman campus.

Tracking trucks

by Pat Caraher
photography by Rajah Bose

One heavily-loaded eighteen-wheeler can cause the same highway damage as 7,000 cars. Ken Casavant and other transportation economists are trying to make sense of the effects of trucks on the state's highways.

An exquisite scar

by Tim Steury
photography by Robert Hubner

The beauty of the channeled scablands comes from unimaginable catastrophe.

Carlton Lewis
Still building bridges

by Brian Gunn '95

The early 1970s were tumultuous years on the WSU campus. As student body president, Carlton Lewis helped keep things from boiling over. Now he presides over Devcorp Consulting Corporation, a project management company with teeth.

Imagine
Class combines word and image to understand William Blake

by Tim Steury
photography by Robert Hubner

The students in this class not only study Blake as both poet and visual artist--they also make images as he made them.

Field burning study proves inconclusive

by Tina Hilding

The study found no significant health effect from field burning--nor did it explain why.

Tracing an elusive cause of panic

by Mary Aegerter

Barbara Sorg's formaldehyde animal model has shown that exposure to the chemical increases levels of stress-hormone production.

Finally, the failure of the Teton Dam is explained

It took nearly 30 years--but now we know why.

The new nutrition: Good for you, bad for you-or just good?

by Tina Hilding

The problem with dietary recommendations is that they haven't been necessarily based on sound science.

A library of rhizobial genes

by Alison Emblidge '04 M.S.

Kahn and his team have nearly completed a monumental step in understanding nitrogen fixation.

Seeing pollution from a higher vantage

by Tina Hilding

"This is going to be an earth-shattering instrument."

Sleep and run: How do they do that?

by Tina Hilding

How can grizzlies hibernate for a season without any apparent loss of muscle?

What now, mad cow?
Weighing the effects of the BSE-infected Holstein in Mabton

by Tim Steury

Is it really as bad as it seems?

As you read this, thank your ion channels

by Mary Aegerter

Panoramas

Tracking the Cougars