People living in the U.S. must travel more than three times farther to access methadone treatment for opioid addiction than Canadians, a new WSU-led study indicates.

Gitau will lead the campus’ student affairs office, including admissions, financial aid, support services, and student-centered programming for approximately 1,400 students in Spokane and Yakima.

Boyd, who is also an associate professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, is one of seven new members on the National Academies for Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee.

Many of the WSU studies that grabbed headlines last year had to do with human health, topped by the discovery of a potentially dangerous virus in Russian bats, a relative of the one that causes COVID‑19.