Interior Design

Each week, we will showcase one of our CAHNRS Ambassadors for the CAHNRS Coug Connections series. This week, we’re featuring Shelby Ruiz, a junior from Startup, Wash.

Each week, we will showcase one of our CAHNRS Ambassadors for the CAHNRS Coug Connections series. This week, we’re featuring Kelli Young, a junior from Bainbridge Island, Wash.

This semester, two Interior Design classes in the School of Design and Construction featured semester-long projects that involved mentors from internationally known firms headquartered in Seattle and real-world presentations at each company’s offices.

PULLMAN, Wash. – An innovative collaborative project is teaching young people the basics of physics. Using simple models, an interdisciplinary team is simultaneously opening doors to more sustainable, energy-efficient homes. Project SOS – the Science of Sustainability – is funded by a National Science Foundation grant to teach middle school students from local communities about the […]

UNIONTOWN, Wash. – The National Endowment for the Arts recently announced the award of 80 Our Town grants to communities in 44 states for work on “creative place making.” The Uniontown Community Development Association is one of the grantees and will be working to enhance the identity of Uniontown as a center of creativity.

SPOKANE, Wash. – John Turpin, a Washington State University associate professor and chair of the Department of Interior Design, has been named by DesignIntelligence one of 25 “educators and education administrators who exemplify excellence in design education leadership.”

Drawing on a cornucopia of talent and inspiration, WSU students won the top three honors in a recent national competition. Challenged by the Retail Design Institute to design a grocery store that would compete with businesses like Whole Foods Markets, Chung Yung (Simon) Ho, Gwen McConn, and Natasha Palewicz won first, second, and third place […]

SPOKANE, Wash. – DesignIntelligence recently released its 2009 list of best interior design schools and for the first time Washington State University of Spokane was ranked among the nation’s best. DesignIntelligence is a bimonthly journal for architecture and design professionals. Washington State University’s graduate program in interior design was ranked the ninth best program among […]

SPOKANE, Wash. – A team of Washington State University architecture, landscape architecture and interior design faculty and students are bound for China and Tibet this May to get a rare look at how people there design, furnish and occupy their homes. Led by Professor Nancy Blossom, director of the Interdisciplinary Design Institute at WSU Spokane, […]

PULLMAN, Wash. — With deep green and purple walls and counters, wooden cabinets, stainless steel appliances and a spot for the dog dish, a kitchen created by Washington State University student Manda Glover has won first place in the National Kitchen & Bath Association 2006 Student Design Competition. The sophomore from Tacoma is majoring in […]