Washington State Magazine covers news and issues of interest to Washington State University faculty, staff, students, and alumni, the people of Washington, and the world.
Pacific Northwest architect Jim Olson designs homes built for art. He talks about early inspiration, the relationships between art and architecture, and the Northwest aesthetic. Read more in Washington State Magazine (Winter 2011) about Olson, and the retrospective of his career at the Washington State University Museum of Art: http://wsm.wsu.edu
Over a decade of publication, Washington State Magazine has featured outstanding photographs from Robert Hubner, Shelly Hanks, Zach Mazur, and many others. This slideshow displays some of the photos that tell the stories of Washington State University.
Washington State Magazine has featured the stories of Washington State University for a decade. This slideshow displays some of the articles in the magazine by Tim Steury, Hannelore Sudermann, Eric Sorensen, and others in their editorial spreads.
Over its ten years of publication, Washington State Magazine has featured a number of illustrations from artists such as David Wheeler, Daniel Vasconcellos, and Joe Ciardiello. This slideshow displays some of the work illustrating the stories of Washington State University.
Kevin Zobrist, a Washington State University Extension agent, teaches forest stewardship in the northern Puget Sound region. He helps landowners manage their forests and keep their woodlands healthy. He explains the differences between natural and human-planted forest growth, and the difficulties in creating a diverse landscape that mimics natural forests. Linda Kast '75, a graduate of WSU’s forest management clinic, tells how she came to own wooded property in western Washington. Read more in...
Diane Szukovathy from Jello Mold Farm in Washington state's Skagit Valley puts together a bouquet of locally-grown flowers and offers tips to gardeners on building their own bouquet of blooms. Diane and her husband Dennis Westphall grow local cut flowers. They have teamed up with Washington State University researchers Bev Gerdeman and Lynell Tanigoshi to build a community of local and seasonal flower growers in the Pacific Northwest. The sustainable, local flower growers sell at markets, dire...
Jim Haguewood demonstrates how to clean a crab. Haguewood, a 1981 graduate of Washington State University's hotel and restaurant management programs, has been eating and cleaning crab for as long as he can remember. His family owned the Haguewoods Restaurant in Port Angeles, Washington, for 58 years. He is a former director of the Clallam County Economic Development Council and works with the Dungeness Crab and Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. Jim says his favorite way to eat Dungeness crab i...
Nicole Braux Taflinger was only 13 when the Germans invaded France in 1940. She has published a memoir of her time growing up in Nancy, Lorraine, called "Season of Suffering: Coming of Age in Occupied France," published by Washington State University Press in 2010. In it she recalls the severe shortages, collaboration, disappearances, and despair and hope of a teenage girl. After Nancy was liberated, Nicole met a dashing young American airman named Ancel Taflinger, General Patton's personal pi...
John Elwood, a maker of fine musical instruments and a 2001 graduate of Washington State University, plays his composition "Sing to the Baby" on a dulcimer he made. John plays folk music, and creates whimsical and beautiful instruments like the goblin dulcimer in the video and banjos crafted from WSU cheese cans. Read more about Elwood and his "canjo" at Washington State Magazine: wsm.wsu.edu/s/index.php?id=857
John Elwood, a maker of fine musical instruments and a 2001 graduate of Washington State University, crafts banjos from WSU cheese cans (like the iconic Cougar Gold). Watch John play classic children's song "Shortnin' Bread" on his "canjo" and read more about his work at Washington State Magazine: wsm.wsu.edu/s/index.php?id=857