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Two researchers, one heart

Two researchers, one heart

Jonathan Kirk.How does one describe the amazing machine that is the human heart? What’s the most appropriate adjective to use? On a gray afternoon this winter, in the airy offices of the Center for Translational Research and Education (CTRE) on Loyola’s Health Sciences Campus, Seth Robia, PhD, and Jonathan Kirk, PhD (Honors ’04)—professors in Loyola’s department of Cell and Molecular Physiology—batted around some ideas. A month prior, Robia had been named the St. Albert’s Day Senior Scientist of the Year and Kirk named the St. Albert’s Day Junior Scientist of the Year for their research into the mechanics of the heart. Each has made it his professional mission to understand exactly how the organ runs and how to ensure that it keeps running for as many people as possible. » More …

Honors alumnus, artist, Michael Schultheis returns to WSU to present work in Schnitzer Museum exhibition

Schultheis and sculpture

Honors alumnus, artist, Michael Schultheis returns to WSU to present work in Schnitzer Museum exhibition

Artist and Washington State University alumnus, Michael Schultheis finds dynamic synergies in the languages of math and art. An economist and mathematician, with experience in the academic and corporate worlds, Schultheis employs analytical formulae within his luminous paintings. While the equations themselves offer a form of mathematical purity, Schultheis’ art subjugates this precision into imperfect visions, leaving room for metaphor, storytelling, and beauty. His canvases often have the appearance of chalkboards filled progressively with mathematical notations and three-dimensional geometries, that pay homage to Greek mathematicians Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid and Archimedes. Fusing the abstract and observed, the rational and the experiential, Schultheis has forged an interdisciplinary, even holistic, practice, connecting us all in its expression. » More …

Happiness as a Skill Offered in Honors

Jon and Gretchen Jones

Happiness as a Skill Offered in Honors

Jon and Gretchen JonesAlumni Jon (’93) and Gretchen (’94) Jones have established a fund in the Honors College at Washington State University to create the Mindfulness-Based Emotional and Social Intelligence (MESI) Certificate in Honors. The purpose of the MESI certificate is to teach happiness as a skill and provide Honors students with tools to improve their performance, relationships, health, and happiness. Through innovative coursework, workshops, local and global community outreach efforts, and guest speakers, the MESI certificate will teach students mindfulness, self-awareness, self-management, empathy, and compassion. » More …

Honors Alumnus one of two ASU professors to receive 2018 NIH New Innovator Award

Rizal Hariadi

Two ASU professors receive 2018 NIH New Innovator Award

No. 1 in innovation” is an accolade Arizona State University proclaims proudly in all realms of university life. Today, ASU proved once again that it is deserving of such a title.

ASU Professors Nicholas Stephanopoulos, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences, and Rizal Hariadi, assistant professor in the Department of Physics, both researchers in the Biodesign Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics, were announced as recipients of the 2018 NIH New Innovator Award. » More …

Honors Alumnus Lewis Lee named to Fed’s Advisory Council

Lewis Lee

Honors Alumnus Lewis Lee named to Fed’s Advisory Council

Lewis LeeThe Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco has named Lewis Lee, founding partner of Spokane-based Lee & Hayes PLLC intellectual-property law firm, to its Economic Advisory Council. The nine-member advisory council is part of the Twelfth Federal Reserve, which is largest by geography and size of its economy.

Lewis is a graduate of the Honors College and obtained a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Business Administration from Washington State University before getting his JD from George Washington University School of Law. » More …

The Courage to Follow Her Own Story: WSU alumna and CNN anchor Ana Cabrera

The Courage to Follow Her Own Story: WSU alumna and CNN anchor Ana Cabrera

Anna CrabreraPULLMAN, Wash. – When Ana Cabrera first set foot on Washington State University’s Pullman campus in 2000, she had no idea she’d become a CNN weekend news anchor 17 years later.

She didn’t know that she’d cover major national stories like riots in Ferguson, Missouri, marijuana legalization, and immigration. She was unaware of how relentlessly top journalists work to deliver thoughtful, round-the-clock news coverage. And she certainly couldn’t predict a contentious political climate that would pose unprecedented challenges to a free press. » More …

Honors Alum and Pianist Eric McElroy Performs in Bryan Hall

Eric McElroy

Honors Alum and Pianist Eric McElroy Performs in Bryan Hall

McElroy with Clinical Associate Professor Pamela Lee

WSU School of Music and Honors College alumnus Eric McElroy is currently a candidate for Birmingham Conservatoire’s Advanced Postgraduate Diploma. McElroy earned his Master’s degree at Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with full honors.

On August 31 McElroy performed solo piano works by contemporary composers including his composition The Perilous Realm in Bryan Hall Theatre at the WSU Pullman campus, which won the prestigious MTNA National Young Artist Composition Competition. » More …

Ardis Hauser, Friend and Supporter of the WSU Honors College, Celebrates 100!

Ardis Hauser, Friend and Supporter of the WSU Honors College, Celebrates 100!

When Ralph Hauser (’53 Education) entered Washington State College on the GI Bill in 1949, he and his wife, Ardis, were impressed by the university, the educational value one receives as a student, and the WSU community of Cougars. It grew into the passion of two lifetimes.

Ralph built admirable careers as an industrial arts teacher, and later as a business owner, in Lacey, Wash. Ardis worked as a children’s librarian and school teacher. They became more engaged with the university through their children, Carl (’75 BS Computer Science) and Kathy (Emtman) (’77 Home Economics). The siblings enrolled in music camps as teenagers and then as undergraduates in the then WSU Honors Program. In 2014, Ralph passed away at age 92 in Pullman, where he and Ardis had lived for nearly 20 years. The town is also home to Carl, Kathy and their families.
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