January 2022
Join the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center for an open house to meet current Cougs, learn tips and tricks to navigating campus the first week of classes, and where the best places to grab lunch, dinner or coffee are on and off-campus.
Calling all new Cougs! Join the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center for an open house to meet current Cougs, learn tips and tricks to navigating campus the first week of classes, and where the best places to grab lunch, dinner or coffee are on and off-campus.
Bestselling author Nir Eyal has constructed a framework for designing better products. He will share his years of research in this practical webinar.
It’s time to look towards your future Do you want to be a part of the future of global energy? Do you want to hone your skills in preparation for your future internship? Do you want a chance to win a scholarship?
Calling all new Cougs! Join the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center for an open house to meet current Cougs, learn tips and tricks to navigating campus the first week of classes, and where the best places to grab lunch, dinner or coffee are on and off-campus.
Bring your friends, plan to meet some new people, and have some fun! This event is sponsored by the Student Entertainment Board, University Recreation, and the Center for Student Organizations and Leadership.
Try out University Recreation activities for free during All Access Week.
Deepfakes are real and a real threat to organizations all over the world, including government organizations. Categorizing deepfakes is important and allows for separating this technology into positive and negative realms.
In this deep-dive webinar, author, work-life balance evangelist, and ex-CEO Todd Miller will share insights and strategies so that you can make 2022 count.
Join us for some Rocket League during spring Week of Welcome! We will be hosting Rocket League pickup games on Wednesday, January 12th at 6pm PST. No previous experience required and all skill levels welcome.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Giacomo Roati, CNR-INO and LENS. Dr. Roati will present their talk, “A Quantum Vortex Collider”, Thursday, January 13th, at 12:10 p.m. in Webster 11.
Mefford’s pet portraits will be on display through mid-May at the Animal Health Library, Wegner Hall 170, part of the WSU Libraries’ “Art in the Library” program. The twice‑yearly exhibit features animal-themed works, typically from artists with a connection to the WSU College of Veterinary Medicine.
The program will include works by Alex Shapiro and John Williams; it will also feature a world premiere by graduate student Joshua Thomson.
Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by joining a day of service and engaging with our community.
Make a Donation on MLK Jr. Day. Join your Cougar Food Pantry in collecting much-needed items for WSU students and the Community Action Center.
If the thought of decluttering overwhelms you, decluttering expert and bestselling author Dana White’s humor and practical, reality-based tips will give you exactly what you need to start making an impact on your space.
Join WSU students, faculty, staff, and alumni, as we come together both in-person at each campus and on Zoom, to create cards to give to local community partners across the nation—community partners such as local hospitals, teen shelters, assisted living homes, etc.
From autonomous vehicles to hybrid cloud and mainframe systems, Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is fast becoming a first-class consideration alongside performance and energy-optimal execution in the design and functioning of the constituent processors. This has resulted in an increased push towards Efficient Resilience as the predominant design paradigm for these processors.
The Pacific Northwest is home to a unique artistic ecosystem involving craft traditions, pre-industrial cultures, and Indigenous and settler histories.
Self-care and advocacy session commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and in solidarity with National Day of Racial Healing
Facilitator: Obie Ford III
For AI-powered systems to be truly successful in practical and everyday scenarios, it is not just enough for these systems to generate optimized decisions, but they need to be capable of working and collaborating with users from all walks of life. One major requirement for developing such systems is the need to imbue them with the ability to effectively model the expectations of their users, and to be capable of explaining their decisions and the rationale behind them in intuitive terms when such expectations cannot be met.
Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist who uses social collaboration in response to timely and site-specific issues. Raised on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, he is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota and European descent.
LaserSmith Light Show Systems has planned a laser show on the Mall to kick off the semester! The event will take place in front of Todd Steps at 6:00 p.m. after the Get Involved Fair! We know it will be cold, and that’s why SEB will be handing out beanies (while supplies last). Not only that, but we will have hot chocolate to warm you up! The laser show will include some of the top hits from 2021 along with a special finale, especially for Cougs!
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Chris Vale, Department of Physics at Swinburne University of Technology. Dr. Vale will present their talk, “Switching on a Fermi Superfluid”.
Emmanuel Acho sits down with comedian & bestselling author, Chelsea Handler, to have an uncomfortable conversation about “Karens,” cancel culture and her own white privilege.
In their new collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and disability justice activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.
Join guest curator Melissa Feldman in the museum galleries on Thursday, January 20, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. for a reception and gallery talk about the exhibition Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest. The gallery talk will begin at 4:30 p.m.
The program will include a concerto, a solo with electronics, a solo with passive piano, and a trio. We hope you can make it!
To learn about this journey of celestial discovery, from the theories of the ancient Greek astronomers to today’s grandest telescopes, we invite you to experience From Earth to the Universe.
This show runs 30 minutes in length and will be preceded by a live sky tour.
Data explosion is facing grand computing challenges on computation power, memory capacity, and communication bandwidth. In the post-Moore’s Law era, specialization has become a new driving force to tackle these problems for performance and energy efficiency improvement.
Interested to learn more about an engineering career, from the perspective of five women with decades of experience in engineering? Bring your questions to this open Q&A panel event. Get advice. Network. This event is sponsored by EECS, however, please invite friends pursuing STEM careers who also may be interested.
Nanette Erickson, viola and Yoon-Wha Roh, piano.
We are back with Games Night for all your gaming needs!
A tour of January night skies, followed by the fulldome planetarium production “From Earth to the Universe.”
This 30-minute voyage through time and space conveys, through an arresting combination of sights and sounds, the Universe revealed to us by science. The show was produced for the ESO Supernova Planetarium and Visitor Centre.
This Faculty Artist Series performance will feature collaborations with WSU Music Faculty and students. The first half will feature a newer work for euphonium, piano, and percussion by Welsh composer Tom Davoren followed by a lovely euphonium and marimba duet by British composer Hannah Drage. The second half…
Attack surfaces are defects in software and hardware that can be misused by attackers to do undesired computations (e.g., steal credentials, leak private user data, and take control over the whole system). Previous efforts on mitigating attack surfaces aim at individual security incidents. As a consequence, software systems are integrated with too many ad-hoc protections while still not becoming secure
In this presentation, nanocoatings with three distinct microstructures inspired by nature will be discussed. In the first part, organic/inorganic hybrid nanocoatings with a nacre-like microstructure generated via a facile co-assembly process will be presented.
AIAS will be hosting an event with guest speaker, Amy Perenchio, who will be discussing about ‘Life After Architecture School’.
Through storytelling and compelling examples, Mohammad Anwar and Frank Danna – Wall Street Journal Best Selling authors of Love as a Business Strategy, will lay out a new, people-first framework for achieving any business outcome by putting love to work.
Interracial couple and gold medalists, Lindsey Vonn & P.K Subban, join Rachel Lindsay (the first black bachelorette) & her husband Bryan Abasolo to have an Uncomfortable Conversation about interracial dating and the backlash that has come with it. Lindsey Vonn speaks about fighting for acceptance from black women, as Rachel confesses to formerly being that ignorant judgmental woman.
SEB Presents
Come and enjoy this infamous cult classic film. But there is so much more than just the movie! Show up early for a free The Thing T-shirt and some movie trivia!
The Washington State University student chapter of the American Association of Equine Practitioners is hosting the 9th Annual Horse Course, a public event for horse owners and enthusiasts.
The classic machine learning (ML) paradigm involves algorithms that learn from centralized data, possibly pooled together from multiple data sources. The computations involved may be done on a single machine or farmed out to a cluster of machines but are inherently restricted within the availability of in-house resources. As a result, such algorithms often fail to utilize the computation and communication capability of their entire ecosystem to support their ever-growing scales.
Have you ever wondered how innovation works at Starbucks?
Or what STEM roles exist at Starbucks, particularly in engineering?
Come join us for an interactive virtual event in January hosted by the Starbucks R&D team.
5-time Grammy award winner, Lil Wayne, opens up for the first time ever about the details of his attempted suicide at age 12. He discusses his lifelong mental health struggles in a brave and vulnerable conversation with Emmanuel Acho. Listen as Wayne speaks with a transparency that we’ve never seen before. If you, or anyone else you know, has ever struggled with anxiety, depression, loneliness or any other mental health challenges – this is for you.
Do you want to learn more about Business Plan Competition? Do you have a business idea? Do you want to be in a team? Come and hear from our speaker Jonah Friedl, CRO & Co-Founder, NOMAD and make your business idea a reality!
Delicious appetizers will be served!
Join us as we dive into the fun and power of strategic communications, with a spotlight on how to uncover and share our most powerful stories.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Marty Ytreberg, Department of Physics at University of Idaho. Dr. Ytreberg will present their talk, “Using Molecular Modeling to Study Protein Structure, Function, and Evolution”.
On social media, in can be tough to sort fact from fiction. In this Real Talk, learn how some social messages can trick you into self-diagnosing a mental illness and what to do instead.
Come chat with WSU Alumni to learn about the exciting technologies and career opportunities available at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport Washington. Hear their stories as WSU Alumni finding their fit in the workforce.
Brittany is coming to WSU to roast you and your friends! The hilarious star of her own TikTok, YouTube, and podcast will be here to mock your social media posts (and make you laugh). Doors open at 5:00 p.m. and the show starts at 6:00 p.m.
Bio: Brittany Broski…
Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This fulldome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain.
This session will illuminate anti-Black racism in order to see the historical rootedness as the thread that is interwoven through current policies, practices, and pedagogies. The facilitator will discuss why it is important to center antiracist work on deeply understanding anti-Black racism and focusing on Black students to begin the liberatory work that lies ahead.
The exploding deployment of mobile and IoT devices has changed many aspects of our lives. These devices are supported by the involvement of multiple key stakeholders, such as platform vendors, device manufacturers, and third-party developers, with each having her own unique cyber threats.
Triple Xtra Wide is a trio that plays what they call “expanded jazz.” You will hear virtuosic and at times mind-bending arrangements of jazz, funk, rock, and more! César Haas, Dave Snider, and Darryl “Doc D” Singleton have a century of combined playing experience. Don’t miss it!
Friday, January 28th at 7:30pm, Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center (405 SE Spokane St., Pullman, WA, 99164) will present an immersive performance of Franz Schubert’s landmark song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey).
Made possible through collaboration between WSU’s Division of Student Affairs, School of Music, the…
A tour of January night skies, followed by the fulldome planetarium production “Seeing!”
Follow the journey of a single photon as it is produced in a distant star, before travelling across the vast expanse of space to land on someone’s retina. This fulldome planetarium show explores some of the fascinating processes of the cosmos, from astrophysics to the biology of the eye and brain. Funded through a generous grant from ZEISS, the show is narrated by astronomer and science communicator, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
There is no doubt that robots will play a crucial role in the future and need to work as a team in increasingly more complex applications. Advances in robotics have laid the hardware foundations for building large-scale multi-robot systems, such as for mobile robots and drones. But how to coordinate robots intelligently is a difficult problem.
Title: Electrocatalysis and Drug Delivery Using Layered Zirconium Phosphate Nanomaterials
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Prepare for the Career Expo—learn how to research employers, give your best impression and network effectively.
Emmanuel Acho sits down with police officers from the Petaluma Police Department in Petaluma, CA. They discuss polarizing topics like defunding the police, Black Lives Matter, and accountability in the police force surrounding the tragic deaths of black civilians. This is not a conversation you want to skip!