Washington State University sociologist Anna Zamora-Kapoor is studying how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) could help improve cancer survival outcomes among the Pacific Northwest’s rural Hispanic population.
Whether it’s proposals for making campuses more efficient or pitches for eco-friendly community engagement, a new task force is eager to hear ideas from the university community as it charts the course […]
The research, conducted in Spokane, Washington, aimed to address the understudied health-related concerns, needs, and behaviors of homeless and unstably housed women.
Food scientists are learning how music can influence perceptions of foods like chocolate, noticing that some sounds are in harmony with sweetness while others bring out a sense of the […]
In a year dominated by studies on human pleasures and their consequences, researchers at the Washington State University (WSU) College of Nursing focused on cannabis use.
Washington State University researchers measured the stress hormone cortisol in hair samples of 53 women in their third trimester. Of that group, 13 women who had elevated cortisol levels later experienced unpredicted birth complications, such as an early birth or hemorrhaging.
At Washington State University, more than 60 departments are active in climate-related research, work that in many cases has been under way for decades. It’s a priority rooted in the university’s land-grant mission of service informed by its science
The pore-like structure of permeable pavements may help protect coho salmon by preventing tire wear particles and related contaminants from entering stormwater runoff, according to a Washington State University study
A new mobile phone-based facial recognition application for dogs has the potential to significantly improve rabies vaccination efforts in endemic areas like Africa and Asia.
While exposure to a single substance like DDT has been shown to create inherited disease susceptibility, a recent study in animals found exposure to multiple different toxicants across generations can amplify those health problems.
Researchers have identified a receptor protein known as CHRM1 as a key player in prostate cancer cells’ resistance to docetaxel, a commonly used chemotherapy drug to treat advanced cancer that has spread beyond the prostate. The discovery opens the door to new treatment strategies that could overcome this resistance.
A four-year $1.2 million grant funded by the National Institutes of Health is aimed at helping Washington State University researchers stop viruses before they cause infections in their hosts.
As overdose deaths from fentanyl are soaring across the nation, researchers at Washington State University Spokane are focusing on a new way to help the youngest victims of the opioid crisis — babies going through substance withdrawal after being exposed before birth, a condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.
Even small differences in the availability of urban green and blue spaces may be associated with better mental and physical health in older adults, according to a Washington State University study.
The College of Veterinary Medicine recently celebrated nearly 20 years of testing for the MDR1 gene mutation in dogs. Some dogs and cats have a mutation in the MDR1 (multidrug […]
Christopher Keane, vice president for research at WSU and vice chancellor for research at WSU Pullman, recently conducted a laboratory safety visit at the Sports Science Laboratory. The Sports Science […]
Gwen Anderson, assistant director in the Office of the Campus Veterinarian, has received the 2023 District 8 AALAS Ron Orta Humanitarian Award. The award honors an individual in the laboratory […]
A Washington State University project to enhance recruitment of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people into clinical trials has received $250,000 for a one-year pilot study.
Nurses from the College of Nursing surveyed agricultural supervisors attending the Washington State Tree Fruit Association meeting in Kennewick, WA, focusing on the impact of wildfire smoke on occupational health in the agricultural industry.
PULLMAN, Wash. — A single strand of fiber developed at Washington State University has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of a polymer, called polyaniline. The newly developed […]
