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Study helps explain how children learned for 99% of human history
Hunter-gatherer children in the Congo Basin have often learned how to hunt, identify edible plants and care for babies by the tender age of six or seven. This rapid learning is facilitated by a unique social environment where cultural knowledge is passed down not just from parents but from the broader community.
One Scientist and an Ever-Expanding Mentoring Network
Scott Stevison ’24 has long dreamt of doing research. He didn’t, however, expect to jump into genetics research his first year at WSU Pullman. Nor did he expect to co-publish a paper on how UV radiation damages DNA and causes skin cancer in PNAS, a prestigious scientific journal, by his third year.
Washington coast avian flu outbreak devastated Caspian terns, jumped to seals
An epidemiological study found that 56% of a large breeding colony of Caspian terns died from a 2023 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at Rat Island in Washington state.
WSU Pullman Snapshot
WSU Pullman students get the tools they need to find untapped strengths, with hundreds of majors and degree programs, research opportunities, fieldwork, internships, and study abroad programs.
Health, clean energy, food production, economic opportunity, security—research advances made by WSU scientists raise quality of life worldwide.
WSU Pullman boosts Washington state’s economy by billions of dollars a year. Plus, WSU researchers create jobs when they bring their innovations to market.
75%
of WSU students received some form of financial aid in 2020-2021
300+
student clubs
66,558 hours
civic engagement by 5,741 WSU student volunteers systemwide (2019-20)