News and Achievements

As we bring the 2024–2025 academic year to a close, we also say goodbye to Dr. Steven Stehr, as he enters retirement.

I was truly excited to write Ethical Omnivores: Better Eating for Everyone because it offered a chance to deeply engage with questions that matter to so many people: How to eat well, live ethically, and still enjoy food in all its richness.

On April 23, the faculty, students, and friends of PPPA gathered to celebrate undergraduate and graduate student successes.

Denny Johnston (’74 Poli. Sci.) grew up witnessing the power and importatnce of lifetime learning. His mother’s formal education was interrupted when her hometown was occupied by the forces of Nazi Germany

WSU political science researchers received a $3.9M Department of Defense Minerva Research Initiative grant to help counter destabilizing disinformation campaigns and violent extremism in African crisis regions.

The Foley Institute hosted more than a dozen noontime conversations this fall focused. Recordings are available of most events on the institute’s YouTube channel.

On Oct. 14, visiting scholar Ana Ballesteros-Pena from Complutense University Madrid (Spain) presented a guest lecture on gender and policy on prisons and immigration detention.

In October, PPPA welcomed guest speaker Bradley Madsen from Texas A&M University. Madsen presented to faculty, staff, and students on the effect of television station consolidation on legislative responsiveness. 

Six competitors vied to represent the College of Arts and Sciences in the 3 Minute Thesis qualifier round on March 5th in Goertzen Hall.

Jeffrey Franks’ return to Washington State University this week to receive the Alumni Achievement Award was a homecoming for the Pullman native whose career has spanned more than 70 countries and placed him at the center of major international economic decisions.

Carolyn Long, professor in civic education and public civility at WSU-Vancouver, was interviewed on WBUR’s “On Point” about the role of shame in American politics.

Michael Reisig (’92, ’96), professor of criminology and criminal justice, has received a 2025 Alumni Achievement Award from the Washington State University Alumni Association (WSUAA).

Jacob Lewis, associate professor at the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs is quoted concerning what leads to violence in protests.

Justin Denney, William Julius Wilson Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, and Travis Ridout,
Claudius O. Johnson and Mary W. Johnson Distinguished Professor, professor and director of the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, are new inductees for the Washington State Academy of Sciences.