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Showcase Honors Faculty Excellence

Four outstanding faculty members from the College of Liberal Arts were recognized at the 2011 Showcase banquet celebrating excellence. More »

Grants & Research

Walker Receives $1.65 Million NIH Grant to Research New Drug Therapy for Alcoholism

Nearly half of those treated for alcohol dependence will experience a relapse within three months. Why it is so hard to stop and what can be done to help those struggling to quit are questions at the heart of Brendan Walker's work.

Sutton Awarded NEH Fellowship

Matthew Sutton has been awarded a $50,400 NEH fellowship to complete his latest book, a comprehensive history of fundamentalist culture in the U.S. tentatively titled American Evangelicals and the Politics of Apocalypse.

NSF Grant Supports Study of Coast Salish Village

Archaeologist Colin Grier hopes to explain how and why the Coast Salish transitioned from a nomadic life of hunting and gathering to form a complex society of permanent communities where jobs became specialized and a social class system emerged.

UISFLP Grant Enhances Asian Language Instruction

Christopher Lupke and W. Puck Brecher have been awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program to expand offerings in Chinese and Japanese at WSU.