What’s happening

Have your relationships been impacted by COVID-19? Attend this Real Talk Thursday to learn more about relationship attachment styles, and how your style interacts with others.

The connection between humans and animals has never been more timely or impactful than it is right now.

Please join Alena Hume, Student Employment Coordinator for the ASCC, as she hosts Harrison Hughes and Melanie Kiel, Career Coaches at the ASCC, to learn how to use your student employment experience to be competitive in the job market.

The Resume and Interview Skills Workshop will touch upon best practices around crafting a resume that best positions students to obtain an interview while also covering how to be successful in a structured interview.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Vivienne Baldassare, Washington State University.

In this training, we will cover simple ways to engage with students and optimize your course space.

Trivia Night will be held on October 1 at 7 p.m. over Zoom. All campuses are welcome, and teams will be randomly assigned into breakout rooms by the host.

We welcome all students, staff and faculty to the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center for Flu Shot Friday! Get in before the official start of flu season to better protect yourself and other Cougs.

Zoom allows users to communicate through webcam/microphones, chat, and screen sharing.

The U.S. is currently facing an affordable housing crisis. WSU’s School of Design and Construction has partnered with Ivory Innovations and several other universities to host a student-based initiative focused on finding innovative solutions.

We’ll explain different setup options, show how to grade and comment on student work, and demonstrate how to use the electronic rubric.

Network with industry representatives from companies who will be attending the career fair!

School of Music faculty tubist Chris Dickey will perform solo tuba works by Rodger Vaughan, Robert Spillman, Asha Srinivasan, Walter Ross, and Domenico Gabrieli.

Washington State University will be hosting an all campus, all major virtual Career Expo for the fall.

Join your classmates to network with companies about careers and internships in Agricultural, Economic, and Natural Resource Sciences.

WSU is moving from Blackboard to Canvas and we are here to make the transition as smooth as possible! In this introduction to Canvas we will show you how to create, upload, organize, and edit content including a review of the feature-rich content editor.

Innate immunity refers to the body’s initial response to curb infection upon exposure to invading organisms. While the detection of pathogen-associated molecules is an ancient form of host defense, if dysfunctional, microbial or autoimmune disease may result.

High-throughput data collection, data transfer technologies, artificial intelligence, automation and robotics, sensors, networking, and other digital technologies are creating a revolution in all areas of human endeavor, with rapidly advancing applications in the manufacturing, health care, and other fields.

Washington State University will be hosting an all campus, all major virtual Career Expo for the fall.

WSU Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health’s Leigh Knodler will give a talk on Salmonella enterica: A Versatile Pathogen, at the annual Bacterial Pathogenesis Symposium sponsored by Duke’s Center for Host-Microbial Interactions. There will be flashtalks and networking throughout.

Energy Systems Innovation Center presents via Zoom seminar: Rethinking principles of modeling, simulations and controls for the changing electric energy systems by Dr. Marija Ilic, MIT

Learn more about how to stand out in the current job market, the clients Matter PR works with, and what it’s like to work at an agency.

Come learn more about Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility.

WSU Instructor of Jazz and Classical Guitar, Gabe Condon, will perform a virtual recital.

Washington State University will be hosting an all campus, all major virtual Career Expo for the fall.

Learn how to engage students in meaningful conversation by interacting with their peers and media.

Women with disabilities have a 40% greater chance of experiencing intimate partner violence than women without disabilities.

The Office of Academic Engagement is proud to host their 5th Annual FAFSA/WAFSA Fest Events!

The Pullman Farmers Market returns for its 12th season to offer the community a mid-week farmers market.

Voting is the defining political act. ‘One person one vote’ is the central democratic principle.

Washington State University will conduct a public hearing on a proposed revision to WAC chapter 504-24-030 – Undergraduate Housing Requirement on October 7, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. via a ZOOM meeting.

Interviewing can be scary. This workshop addresses key aspects of the interview process: preparation, interview types, what to expect and answering the behavior-based questions.

Join Global Campus Career Counselor Chris Miller for a webinar as he walks you through the career resources and services available to Global Campus students.

What is the secret ingredient to effective diversity, equity, and inclusion learning? Initiatives that lead to sustainable change focus on empathy skills/perspective taking of the “other” and goal setting to encourage behavior change.

Join us as we take a closer look at Blackboards electronic rubric. Learn what you can do with the template and how to import your own rubric.

Metallic fuel systems, e.g. U-Zr and U-Pu-Zr, are attractive fuels for advanced nuclear reactor concepts, such as the advanced sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) as these fuels exhibit high thermal conductivity, proliferation resistance, excellent compatibility with the sodium coolant, and in some configurations inherent safety.

Real Talk Thursdays are offered weekly from October 1–November 19, 11:30 a.m.–noon via Zoom.

The COVID-19 pandemic put new stresses on our system of elections, and a shift in many states toward mail-in balloting. Are mail-in ballots safe? What’s driving the polarization of mail-in balloting and what challenges lie ahead?

Interviewing can be scary. This workshop addresses key aspects of the interview process: preparation, interview types, what to expect and answering the behavior-based questions.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Julie Anne Wieck, soprano and Elena Panchenko, piano will present a program including selections from Henry Purcell’s Harmonia Sacra, Hugo Wolf’s Mörike Lieder, Georges Bizet’s Carmen, and Theron Kirk’s Prayers from the Ark. The recital will conclude with a set of songs by three African American composers, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still and Lena McLin.

We welcome all students, staff and faculty to the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center for Flu Shot Friday! It’s not too late to get your flu shot to better protect yourself and other Cougs.

Arika will present on the unexpected, fun, and challenging transition she experienced as she left college and started her career.

Why You Should Vote: Voting as an UndocuAlly will feature student speakers who are undocumented, from undocumented communities, and are allies to undocumented communities.

Take a virtual journey to Colchuck Lake and the Enchantments with OREC staff member and former wilderness ranger, Hannah Kiser, as your guide.

Join fellow Coug families and a few WSU ‘celebrities’ for a Coug Spirit paint night. These take and make kits are all ready to be shipped to your home.

PROGRAM MENU and SHOPPING LIST

Oboe Tapas is a recital “redefined” that will engage listeners’ senses of sound, sight, and taste. WSU professor, Keri E. McCarthy, will perform a dynamic recital of music for solo oboe with food and art pairings for audience members participating from the comfort of…

Join fellow Coug families and a few WSU ‘celebrities’ for a Coug Spirit paint night. These take and make kits are all ready to be shipped to your home.

In this training, we will cover simple ways to build a community-centered environment in your online course space.

Professor Robert J. Miller (Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma) is currently a professor at the Sandra Day O’conner College of Law at Arizona State University and serves as interim Chief Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Court of Appeals and Appellate Judge for the Courts of Appeals of the Shawnee Tribe, the Grand Ronde Tribe, and Northwest Inter-Tribal Court System.

Steven Paul Judd (Kiowa/Choctaw) is an award-winning contemporary visual artist and filmmaker.

Nature has evolved diverse systems to carry out energy conversion reactions. Metalloenzymes such as hydrogenase, carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, acetyl coenzyme A synthase, and methane monooxygenase use earth-abundant transition metals such as nickel and iron to generate and oxidize small-molecule fuels such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, acetate, and methane.

Nanocarriers like exosomes, lipoproteins and ribonulear proteins transport molecules from cells to cells and from organs to organs via our microcirculation system.

WSU students can join our student groups for a game night including Bingo, Kahoot, and Pictionary.

Energy Systems Innovation Center presents a PSERC Webinar, “Smart Meter Data Mining for Peak Load Analysis and Outage Detection in Distribution Systems” by Dr. Zhaoyu Wang, Iowa State University

Over the summer of 2020, our presenters participated in the AOI Distance Delivery Mastery Certification opportunity.

Use this tool to proactively engage students in reading and provide a focus of conversation with automatically graded annotations.

TEDxWSU Countdown is part of a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis, turning ideas into action.

College students frequently deal with high levels of stress. Learn how to identify symptoms of stress early and techniques to reduce stress before it becomes unmanageable.

Liz Cambage was a first-round pick in the WNBA and now plays for the Las Vegas Aces.

Come get your free pumpkin! In order to be able to participate in AquaPatch you must be a member of the Student Recreation Center and you must make a reservation on our website.

COVID-19 has disrupted the world, to say the least, affecting the way people interact and how businesses operate.

This training will provide a review of Blackboards’ full array of powerful question formats and setting options that allow you to precisely control and manage delivery of online assessments.

Were the polls and election models in 2016 wrong? What do current polls and models tell us, and how reliable are they?

This presentation discusses what Black disabled resistance looks & sounds like through time. This presentation will go into ancestry stories, today’s Krip-Hop stories, and cultural work worldwide through book readings, songs, visual arts, videos and podcasts.

This presentation affirms Black musical expression as a viable form of American culture. Born out of documented duress, the musical contributions of enslaved Africans in the earliest days of United States history exemplifies a creative synthesis of cultural preservation and adaptation, that conceived and birthed songs of sorrow, yet hope.

The Artificial Intelligence @ WSU initiative is hosting a virtual mini summit on AI and applications to showcase recent advancements, foster collaborations, and initiate conversations, both within WSU as well as across major institutions in the Pacific Northwest.

The Pullman Farmers Market returns for its 12th season to offer the community a mid-week farmers market.

Employers consistently tell us that experiences in clubs and organizations, teamwork in class projects, and leadership make students standout as candidates they want to interview.

Slalom is hosting a virtual information session and would love the opportunity to meet you and tell you more about our growing company! Please join us for this event to learn more about our full-time early career software engineer consulting opportunities and our fall recruitment timeline.

Hone in on your drawing skills and join us in a game of online Pictionary!

Interested in learning more about how to be an ally on social media? This week’s Real Talk Thursday will go over what it means to be an ally, considerations about performative allyship, and allyship and accessibility.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Aaron Vincent, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University. Dr. Vincent will present his talk, “Very small black holes at very large experiments”.

Queer Abolition, the 2020 InQueery Symposium, responds to both recent and long-standing calls from queer and feminist activists to address police misconduct and violence.

Ross Gay is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

We welcome all students, staff and faculty to the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center for Flu Shot Friday! Get in before the official start of flu season to better protect yourself and other Cougs.

The SDC Career Fair is October 29 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. so it’s time to prepare! Join company representatives and Sandi Brabb from VCEA Internships & Career Services to talk about how to best prepare yourself for the fair, what you can do now to get ready, and how to participate in the fair!

The recital contains original and arranged works for the horn ranging from the 18th Century to the 21st Century. The concert will be live streamed from Taipei, Taiwan

As part of LGBTQ+ History Month, the Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center (GIESORC) is hosting a system-wide workshop that examines the relationship between race, privilege, and identity, including sexuality and gender.

HOW TO IDENTIFY DISTRESS SYMPTOMS, AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT THEM
This talk covers the identification of distress/stress symptoms, and some resources on how to manage mild-moderate mental health symptoms.

Join us for daily virtual flash talks on safety, health and security topics led by industry experts.

Although several trials showed significant shrinkage when viruses were injected directly into tumor nodules, systemic intravenous delivery of virotherapeutics is required for the treatment of metastatic cancers.

Have you noticed that no matter what you want to do there is a “challenge” out there to help get you started? Dry January. The Whole 30. The Year of Yes.

This presentation will provide a brief introduction about the ERO Event Analysis Process and provide an overview of performance of EMS based on the analysis of NERC reportable events from October 2019 to September 2020. The analysis includes the trend in number of reported events, outage restoration times, and mitigation strategies.

Want to connect your Panopto quizzes to the Blackboard grade book? Curious which students have looked at your Panoto video?

TWEAK YOUR TELEWORK
Ergonomics for your home office
Speaker: Sarah Greer, Environmental Health and Safety

In Sean’s brand new Virtual Mind Reading show “Brain Break” students will experience real connection in a virtual environment.

Global Connections Bingo Game Nights are returning throughout the Fall 2020 semester. You’re invited to take a well-deserved break each month and join us for a few rounds of virtual Bingo!

Mr. Dale will perform a program of 20th Century contemporary classical music for saxophone which will include; Paul Creston’s Sonata, Improvisation, by Eugene Bozza and Ten Figures of A Dancer, by Pierre Max Dubois.

Students, staff, and faculty* are welcome to attend this bonus Flu Shot Wednesday at the Chinook Student Center.

What are the likely outcomes in the congressional races this year, and how will they impact politics and policymaking?

Meet Carla Briceno, CEO and Co-Founder, Bixal, Wednesday, October 21st, via Zoom. The online program begins at noon, with plenty of time for questions via chat and video.

Self-care is all about prioritizing your mental health and wellbeing to be your best self. Join us as we discuss some helpful self-care techniques to care for your physical, mental, and emotional health during these times.

In this session, we’ll walk through best practices in building your brand on LinkedIn.

Learn how to best share your academic and entrepreneurial experiences with a professional audience, such as future employers or graduate schools.

School is in session next Wednesday with the one and only David Dobrik.

The Global Director of Legislative Affairs (DOLA) represents students at the state capitol during the legislative session. In this chat, join ASWSUG DOLA, Samantha Fakharzadeh, in a conversation on the voting process and why it is important to be a participant.

WSU is moving from Blackboard to Canvas and we are here to make the transition as smooth as possible. In this introduction to Canvas we will show you how to create, upload, organize, and edit content including a review of the feature-rich content editor.

Reducing footprint, cost and increasing reliability of power electronics and electric machines is essential to increase the penetration of these components on multiple vehicle platforms, as well as increase the market penetration of electric-drive vehicles.

In this Real Talk Thursday you will learn communication strategies to help form healthy interdependent relationships, to listen with empathy, and to ask for needs effectively.