Winding its way through southern Idaho, the Snake River sidles along a stretch of dark basalt rising above arid farmland. In the Thousand Springs region, an enormous aquifer sends water bursting from the rock in a cavalcade of waterfalls and creeks. Cold, clear, and...
Fifty years ago, activists in Alabama called for people to come from the far corners of the country to participate in what would become one of the most significant events in the history of the civil rights movement: a five-day march for voting rights from Selma to...
“Do you know what kind of wine this is?”Thomas Henick-Kling, director of the viticulture and enology program at Washington State University Tri-Cities, asks me as he gently places his hand on a wall in the new Wine Science Center.”Red?” I...
Among the once-mighty foods that have fallen from grace, barley may have fallen the hardest. Kevin Murphy (’04 MS, ’07 PhD) and Mary Palmer Sullivan ’88 are trying to change that.Barley was there at the dawn of agriculture some 10,000 years ago,...
Criminal justice doesn’t end when the prison gate clangs shut behind the departing offender. Unseen, but of great value, are the officers who serve as guardians on the outside, watching over the former prisoners and guiding their integration back into society....
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