runner Bernard Lagat, ran NCAA track and graduated from Washington State University with a degree in management information systems 2000.
Medal of Honor recipients Colonel James P. Fleming and Staff Sergeant Ronald Shurer are both Washington State University alumni. Colonel Fleming entered the Air Force after receiving his commission through ROTC at Washington State in 1966. Staff Sergeant Shurer attended Washington State from 1997 to 2002 earning a bachelor's degree in business administration and starting an MBA before enlisting in the US Army.
Counterculture icon Timothy Leary received a graduate degree from Washington State in the mid-1940s.
Musician Krist Novoselic earned a BSc in social sciences from Washington State University Global Campus in 2016.
Edmund Schweitzer, founder of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL), graduated with his Ph.D. from Washington State in 1977. He received the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering in 2012, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2019.
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