According to U.S. News and World Report and the Carnegie Foundation, WSU ranks as a top-tier national research university. We have approximately 3200 graduate students in 70 programs, so students receive invaluable personal attention from our revolutionary thinkers. Our research faculty includes innovators in the study of DNA-repair, pioneers in cancer research, and experts in the fight against world hunger.
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Animal Sciences
The animal sciences program is one of the strongest graduate curriculums in the country, with a student-first philosophy. Our courses blend classroom instruction with hands-on contact with animals. Faculty members have received numerous university and national awards.
Clean Technologies
Professor George Mount is developing a NASA-funded
satellite to launch January 2008 that measures carbon
dioxide from space. Mount and other researchers from
the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, LAR, received
a three-year NASA grant to gather this data from
satellites and use it to check and improve air quality
forecasting in the Northwest.
Communications
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E. Lincoln James, professor of communications serves as managing editor of The Western Journal of Black Studies. He teaches Advertising Media Planning, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Direct Marketing. James collaborates with a women's multicultural doctoral student group to help members complete their dissertations and publish their work.
Plant Pathology
Associate Professor of plant pathology, Lori Carris, specializes in mycology, the study of fungi. She studies smut fungi, which affect wild and cultivated grasses, including the thousands of acres of wheat and barley that cover eastern Washington.