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Will Gregg is WSU’s manuscripts librarian and works in the Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections department. When I saw the name in the voicemail inbox of my office phone, I wasn’t sure I was reading it right. “Is that really John Roskelley calling me?” I wondered. I recognized Roskelley’s name right away as a writer […]

As with every year the Ig Nobel Prizes are announced, Emily Cukier has her favorite research winners. Last year, for example, the Physics Prize went to a Harvard University scientist who studied how water currents affect the swimming behavior of a fish. A dead fish. “Even when the fish can’t move itself, it still ‘swims’ […]

WSU Libraries will unveil a new mural featuring British author Virginia Woolf and her sister and artist, Vanessa Bell, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, in the Terrell Library Atrium, on the ground floor next to Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). Jiemei “Mei” Lin, an assistant professor in the WSU Department of Art, painted […]

Coming of age during an era of assimilation and cultural erasure, Tony Tekaroniake Evans was told by his third-grade teacher that Indians no longer exist. How could this be when his grandmother spoke Mohawk in the house? Thus begins a comical, informative, and heartbreaking literary journey in search of his Indigenous identity. From childhood fantasies […]

Editor’s Note: WSU Libraries can renew their open access agreement with Wiley Publishing thanks to a one-time strategic investment of $240,000 from the WSU Office of the Provost. University researchers can continue to publish their work in more than 1,400 scholarly journals without individual article processing charges (APCs). To balance WSU Libraries’ collections budget this […]

WSU Arts Assistant Professor Jiemei “Mei” Lin is painting a new mural of sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in the hallway adjacent to Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) on the Terrell Library ground floor for the start of classes this fall. According to Lin, the Virginia and Vanessa mural celebrates the creative lives […]

WSU Libraries’ faculty members David Luftig and Sam Lohmann received their tenure and promotion to Librarian 3 earlier this year. According to WSU Provost Chris Riley-Tillman, “the granting of tenure and promotion is the strongest possible statement that can be made of the confidence your colleagues, the college, and the university administration have in your […]

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 […]