Can I please get a loud and proud GO COUGS?! 

Hello everyone, my name is Samia Fagbemi, and I am a sophomore in the Honors College, majoring in Biology, on a pre-med track. Although I was born in the U.S., I spent much of my childhood in Benin, a small country on the west side of Africa, where I was raised before moving back here. I fluently speak French and host a French conversation table for the International Student Center at WSU. I am part of the Executive Board of the Residence Hall Association, an Orientation Leader for New Coug Orientation, and a student intern for a research lab in the School of Molecular Biosciences. 

Welcome to WSU! My name is Lori Wollerman Nelson and I am an Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences on the Tri-Cities campus. I grew up on a farm in central Illinois and received my undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I earned my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I discovered that I love biological field work and teaching. Over the course of my career, I have had the joy of teaching students in North Carolina, Maryland, the Bahamas, Costa Rica, and California. At WSU Tri-Cities I teach introductory biology, ecology, and evolution and include students in my on-going study of bird mortality from window collisions. In my free time, I like to watch birds (live ones!), garden, and read.