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Fifty-one WSU Press authors (or their heirs) waived royalty payments on 2024 sales of their titles, totaling roughly $2,000 that can be used to support future publications and operations. “The waiving of royalties has a significant impact on WSU Press, as it helps us to earn back the cost of producing a title more quickly, […]

In June, Keiko Hara, longtime painter, printmaker, and subject of a WSU Press book about her art, earned the 2025 Twining Humber Award from the Artist Trust, a nonprofit organization that supports and encourages individual artists working in all disciplines to enrich community life throughout Washington state. The $10,000 award is given annually to a […]

For co-founding and co-leading the WSU Queer Archives with WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Josie Cohen-Rodriguez (she/they/ella) has been named the 2025 Library Excellence Award recipient. The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Recipients are chosen based on encouraging students to use […]

Bruce A. Ramsey is the author of the WSU Press book Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Washington and studied graduate-level journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Ramsey began his journalism career […]

WSU librarians Talea Anderson and Erin Hvizdak have received WSU David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities Fellowships for Anderson’s book project on the history of vegetarianism and Hvizdak’s examination of the intersections of race, gender, and art in New Orleans from 1830 to 1940. According to the center’s faculty opportunities website, the fellowships […]

Three WSU Libraries’ student workers graduated May 3 and are ready to take what they learned—in class and in their jobs—into the next chapter of their lives. Research Services’ student reference assistant Janai Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in animal sciences, pre-veterinary. From Federal Way, Washington, she plans to spend the summer working, spending time […]

A journalistic history of Seattle during the Great Depression and a wildlife biologist’s 40 years of research on Pacific Northwest wildlife are April releases from WSU Press. Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles by longtime journalist Bruce A. Ramsey captures stories from Seattle newspapers and […]

A half-scale model—or maquette—of a statue of Nisqually activist Billy Frank Jr. is on display at Terrell Library through May 3, one stop of a statewide tour sponsored by ArtsWA and the Nisqually Indian Tribe. Washington State University’s Department of History, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and WSU Libraries arranged for the maquette’s appearance in […]

Jeffrey C. Sanders is a professor in WSU’s Department of History in Pullman. He is author of Razing Kids: Youth, Environment, and the Postwar American West (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), and McClellan Park: The Life and Death of an Urban Green […]

WSU Health Sciences Library Director Ann Dyer has earned the Systematic Review Services Specialization (SRSS) certificate (Level I) through the Medical Library Association (MLA). SRSS certification provides information retrieval and management skills to support users and researchers in conducting high-quality and reproducible systematic reviews. Dyer said she pursued the SRSS certificate from MLA to support […]