March 2023
WSU partners with the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to learn more about the experiences of our undergraduates. We want to hear from you! This is a great opportunity to give WSU feedback to benefit current and future Cougs.
This interactive exhibition is comprised of approximately 3,800 handwritten toe tags representing migrants who died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert in Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019.
Join fellow VCEA students for an evening of tasty snacks and fun card/board games.
Relax, take a brain break, and meet some people pursuing similar degree programs.
Student and Faculty works
This discussion will focus on different Boeing career paths, balancing external career advice, taking initiative, developing your plan, and taking calculated risks to own your career.
Discussion panel with composers (students, faculty, and guest)
Student and Faculty works
College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Research Seminar
Presented by Shelby Coates, PhD Candidate
Title: Potential Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cannabinoids and Select Opioids
Featuring Electro Acoustic works
CAH has organized a seminar series to support first-generation graduate students at WSU. The objective of this series is to provide first-gen grad students with a space where they can share the challenges that they are facing in graduate school. In addition, these meetings will help the first-gen students from various departments at WSU build a community across disciplines.
Some observations on the role of solvent in the self-assembly
Choral and chamber works by student and faculty
Nominations are Open
Help recognize those who have shown outstanding leadership and service to the WSU community this academic year.
Step up to the plate with fellow WSU alumni, friends, and fans for our annual Coug Day at Spring Training at Peoria Sports Complex
Ensemble 337 performing newly commissioned works
Yii Kah Hoe installation
Join fellow Utah Cougs and University of Idaho Vandal alumni, families, and friends at the Canyons for a free breakfast and social before skiing Park City Mountain on March 5!
Football season is back early! Join WSU alumni, families, friends, and fans at the XFL Houston Roughnecks game on March 5 as they take on the San Antonio Brahmas!
Speaker: Dr. Cailin O’Connor, Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine
Title: Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods
Speaker: Prof. Brian A. Powell, Fjeld Professor in Nuclear Environmental Engineering and Science, Clemson University
Title: Understanding tetravalent actinide oxide formation, stability, and dissolution under far field environmental conditions
Abstract: Comprehensive thermodynamic understanding of nuclear materials is paramount for long-term management of legacy nuclear waste and commercial spent nuclear fuel. …
Providers from around the country will fly in to promote international opportunities abroad. If you’re curious about how to earn credit or internship hours in another country, stop in and ask questions!
There will be door prizes and raffle items for those who attend.
Energy Systems Innovation Center presents Convergence of Physics, AI, Computing and Control for Enabling and Securing Power and Energy System Transformation by Dr. Qiuhua Huan, Electrical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines
Come learn how to use your Apple device to improve your time management. We’ll learn how to use iCal to manage your busy schedule, and Reminders to stay on top of your due dates. We’ll show you how to sync your schedule with your iCloud, so you can access your calendar and reminders from any Apple device. We’ll spend the last half of the workshop showing you how to aesthetically plan your weeks using Notability on iPad.
Learn how to share your academic and entrepreneurial experiences with a profession audience such as future employer or graduate schools
Bake Sale to benefit the Design Activism Society!
A great opportunity to learn about fascinating & important research! A short list of PhD students in the arts & sciences will compete to explain their doctoral research and its significance in just three minutes and in terms just about anybody can understand.
Shorten the fundraising learning curve with Startup Advisor Richard Repp. Early-stage startups often raise their first round of funding with their family and friends, but soon find they need additional funds. Knowing which funding types are the right fit and how to pursue them is key to advancing to the next stage of business development.
WSU hosts the Tenor/Bass Festival – an opportunity for young tenors and basses to sing together and build performance skills and confidence. Schools from throughout the Northwest bring their students to participate in this mass choir event. Our ultimate goal is for your students to take both their learned skills…
Shine up your draft 1-page executive summary for the WSU Business Plan Competition. Gain tips for submitting a visually appealing 1-page executive summary to the WSU Business Plan Competition. Get help from industry experts and entrepreneurship faculty.
Learn about Nursing’s Pre-licensure BSN Program
The WSU School of Music will present its Winter Choral Concert, “The Storm Is Passing Over,” on Thursday, March 9, at 7:30 PM in Bryan Hall Theatre on the WSU Pullman campus. WSU’s University Singers, Treble Choir, and Concert Choir will perform a wide array of choral literature…
Presented by: Farheen Shaikh, PhD Candidate
Title: Crosstalk between TNF-a and TWEAK/Fn-14 Signaling Pathways in Human Rheumatoid Arthritis Synovial Fibroblasts
VCEA phd students will talk about their thesis in 3 minutes or less to a non-technical audience.
Speaker: Peter Jensen, chemistry graduate student
Group: Guo/Moreau
Title: Structure and Thermal Properties of Lanthanide Doped UO2
Abstract: Fission reactions in UO2 generate rich chemistry and complex structures within its fluorite matrix. Lanthanides (Ln), as one of the dominating fission products, are able to be incorporated into the UO2 structure,…
Celebrate St. Paddy’s Day with fellow Sacramento & Reno Cougs at the pickleball court on March 18!
Surround yourself with fellow Tri-Cities Coug fans at a WSU Women’s Basketball March Madness Watch Party! Cheer on the WSU Women’s Basketball team as they take on the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles on Saturday, March 18, at Sage Brewing Company Taproom at Hansen Park. Tip-off is set for 11:30 a.m. Pacific.
WSU Women’s Basketball is headed to Villanova for the NCAA March Madness Tournament! Join fellow Greater Philadelphia Cougs for a meetup two hours prior to the game before the Cougs take on Florida Gulf Coast University in the first round of the tournament. This fan experience will take place at Flip & Bailey’s in Bryn Mawr, a 20-minute walk or 4-minute drive from The Pavilion where the Cougs will play. Tip-off is at 2:30 p.m. Eastern.
Looking for a way to bring the taste of WSU to San Diego?
Dr. Ravikumar Gelli, Iowa State University, and candidate for EECS Power Faculty position, will be presenting Intelligent Cyber-Physical Security and Resiliency for the Smart Grid
Dr. Adam Laats, Professor of Education and History, Binghampton University
Title: Evolution and All That: Why America Can’t Stop Fighting About Creationism
Exploring Platform Reboot as a Security Measure for Cyber-Physical Systems
Speaker: Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto, Medicinal Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Drug Discovery Program, Associate Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Discovery of ASTX727 (INQOVI®), an oral combination of decitabine and cedazuridine for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes
One-stop-shop for completing pre-Commencement tasks
Distribution Grids provide the final tier in the transfer of electricity from generators to the end consumers. In recent years, smart controllable devices, residential generator/storage devices and distribution grid meters have expanded the availability of sensor data in distribution networks. Unveiling feeder topologies from data is of paramount importance to advance situational awareness and proper utilization of smart resources in power distribution grids. This talk summarizes recent works on topology identification for power distribution grids, under different regimes of measurement observability, using conservation laws of power-flow physics and structural properties of feeders.
Join Greater Inland Empire Cougs for a night at the ballpark with Cougar Baseball as they take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs at Coach Steve Hertz Field on March 21. All WSU alumni, friends, and fans ages 21+ are welcome to meet the group at 4:30 p.m. Pacific for a free tailgate at Cougar-owned Fast Eddie’s. Invite the whole family to the baseball game after the tailgate.
Sarah Olson directs health research for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Health Program and provides leadership and research support to field veterinarians and conservation staff around the world.
This half-day, virtual, interactive activity is geared toward educators in clinical health profession programs of all levels who wish to further develop fundamental educational scholarship skills necessary to succeed as a clinical health educator.
One-stop-shop for completing pre-Commencement tasks
Join us, on March 22nd, for this exciting cultural exploration across of variety of cuisines.
Join the WSU Pullman Chancellor’s Office for a series of fireside chat installments celebrating Women’s History Month this March 2023.
Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture invites you to this meet and greet event with Dean Mary Rezac. Bring your questions and have a snack at the same time!
Dr. Sarah Olson, Wildlife Conservation Society
Title: A large-scale empirical study of hibernating bat energetics and modeled implications on White-Nose Syndrome susceptibility
In November 2022, the WSU Regents voted to rename the President’s residence on the Pullman campus in honor of Professor Ida Lou Anderson. Please join Trevor Bond and Phil Gruen for an illustrated presentation on the life of a remarkable Washington State College faculty member and graduate of Colfax High School who trained and inspired a generation of broadcasters including Edward R. Murrow. The panelists will provide an overview of Ida Lou Anderson’s life and an architectural history of the Anderson House.
Join us for our spring career fair
This is a recruitment event that connects local and regional agencies with students who are seeking career opportunities.
Women, people who become pregnant and their children have not been spared from the opioid crisis in the United States. In the last 20 years, maternal mortality rates in the United States increased. Deaths related to suicide and overdose may be the leading contributors to maternal mortality up to 1 year postpartum. Relatedly, parental drug use is a frequent driver of child welfare involvement with the number of cases increasing as the opioid crisis expands.
This presentation aims to review the historical and present context that drives the continued crisis for women, birthing people, and their children, and offers hope and solutions to reverse the tide to save lives and break the intergenerational cycles of harm and loss. Discussed will be the current evidence-based recommendations to care for pregnant and postpartum women, people and their children, along with ways to facilitate collaboration and inclusion to promote positive mother/birthing parent and child outcomes.
Design Group is an ENR Top 100 Engineering Firm that focuses on finding cutting edge solutions to the toughest engineering problems. Meet us to learn more about our national full service Design-Build engineering firm, out people-centric culture, and how we can build a better world, together.
The most severe harms from climate change fall disproportionately upon underserved communities. Join us for a conversation with industry experts and hear how communication practitioners are handling the climate crisis that is affecting so much of the Western United States.
Debra Gonsher Vinik, PhD, is a film producer, writer and director who has produced and written 21 documentaries, including six Emmy winners. Dr. Gonsher Vinik’s newest feature film, Attention Must Be Paid: Women Lost in the Opioid Crisis, explores the stories of women who are battling opioid use disorder (OUD) and are casualties of this neglect.
Christiano Rodrigues and Christopher Wilson will present three duos for violin and marimba, including the music of Astor Piazzolla, Gabriela Ortiz, and David P. Jones.
Title: Intersections of Digital Humanities and English Studies
Speakers: Dr. Richard Snyder, Blackburn Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English, WSU Vancouver Dr. Lacy Hope, Assistant Professor of English, Utah Tech University Matthew Kollmer, PhD Student, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Presented by: Adeola Aminu PhD Student
Title: Screening of lung cytochrome P450 enzymes against the potent tobacco carcinogen, NNK
Title: Leveraging chemometrics of optical spectroscopy in challenging systems
Speaker: Emily Hicks, chemistry graduate student
Title: In Situ Imaging and Computational Modeling Reveal that Thiophene Complexation with Cobalt Octaethylporphyrin and Graphite is Highly Cooperative
Join us in person for our annual weekend Veterinary Spring Conference. There will be a large and small animal track and a track for technicians & assistants. We encourage veterinarians, technicians, and assistants to attend.
This program offers 12 hours of continuing education credit.
The conference begins Friday afternoon with the Bustad Distinguished Lecture.
Meg Daley Olmert, author of “Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human Animal Bond”
Join Palouse Chapter Cougs and the WSU Retirees Association for a special opportunity to mix and mingle with the WSU Tennis team and Head Coach Raquel Atawo on Friday, March 24, at 5:15 p.m. Pacific. We will be meeting at Hollingbery Fieldhouse on the WSU Pullman Campus to meet Coach Raquel Atawo and hear all about the WSU Tennis program. Bring your questions and take advantage of this special opportunity!
A tribute to Stan Getz and Kenny Barron’s People Time.
KSED offers students in grades K-5 the opportunity to learn basic science and engineering principles through fun, hands-on activities. We partner with various organizations across WSU to provide engaging activities to teach science and engineering concepts. The WSU students are excited to teach your kids about science and engineering!
Calling all Cougs in Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware! Join the WSUAA Philadelphia Club on Saturday, March 25, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern for a fun afternoon of Cougs, conversations, and Cougar Cheese at Conshohocken Brewing Company KoP. This gathering is an excellent opportunity to connect with fellow WSU alumni, families, friends, and fans while sampling a variety of Cougar Cheese from the WSU Creamery.
The operation of modern power grids is increasingly challenged by the massive integration of volatile renewable energy as well as high-impact events such as natural disasters and cyber-attacks. The conventional rule-based operational paradigm is no longer a viable solution, and real-time situational awareness must be obtained from massive and heterogeneous sensor data streams to support intelligent decision-making and control. This talk will address two main pillars of the situational awareness required by a resilient and renewable power grid of the future.
Presenter: Ryan Wessendorf, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
Title: Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase’s affinity for bicarbonate and phosphoenolpyruvate: implications for C4 photosynthesis
Visit Tuesdays through Saturdays, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. March 28 through May 6 for the culmination of three years’ work by the MFA graduate candidates. With a wide range of art-making approaches, this year’s MFA candidates are Shanda Stinebaugh, Adam Stuart, Sean Sullivan, and Allen Vu.
Washington State University is turning 133 this year, and the WSU Alumni Association is celebrating with FREE birthday cake for Cougs (alumni, friends, students, faculty, and staff) in a system-wide celebration of our university. Check out the details below for information on where you can get a sweet treat to celebrate!
The electricity landscape is undergoing significant changes due to the proliferation of distributed energy resources, and increasingly smart consumers (prosumers), proactively managing their local consumption and generation – through intelligent devices like smart thermostats, solar panels, and batteries energy storage systems. Recent advances in information & communication technologies, and smart metering, provides strategic opportunities for prosumers to reform their conventional energy practices towards more consumer-centric economies.
Adjuvant additives significantly increase vaccine efficacy. However, adjuvants also cause inflammatory side-effects, such as pyrexia, which currently limits their use. To address this, we created a thermophobic vaccine adjuvant engineered to attenuate potency at temperatures correlating to pyrexia. Thermophobic adjuvants were synthesized by combining a rationally designed trehalose glycolipid CLR agonist with thermoresponsive poly-N-isoporpylacrylamide (NIPAM) via Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain-Transfer polymerization.
Join CORETECH for a 60-minute session to learn how to create a powerful presentation in Keynote. We will go over Keynote features such as Magic Move, transitions, dynamic backgrounds, and inserting live video into your presentations.
This year’s State of the University address will be delivered by President Kirk Schulz on the WSU Spokane campus as well as livestreamed online.
Address from an outstanding emeritus honored for achievements while in retirement.
Presented by: Richard James, Professor of Higher Education, University of Melbourne
Richard James is a Professor of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, where he was formerly the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and the Director of the Centre for Study of Higher Education. He has had wide-ranging research interests in…
Drs. Dawn DeWitt and Tracy Klein will co-facilitate a workshop following Dr James’ presentation that applies the principles of postgraduate supervision to audience led cases and dilemmas in mentoring.
The workshop following Dr. Richard James’ talk will compare the Eleven Practices with the Educational Alliance (Telio) model and give participants an opportunity to identify and discuss which model and practices might be best applied to their own mentoring/mentee goals.
Join the WSU Pullman Chancellor’s Office for a series of fireside chat installments celebrating Women’s History Month this March 2023. The chat series will feature faculty and staff from WSU Pullman, sharing their insights on their leadership journey. The panel will be moderated by WSU Pullman Chancellor Elizabeth Chilton, and will feature Mental Health Counselor Associate Charice DeGuzman, Director of the School of Music Keri McCarthy, and Assistant Professor Mary Kay Patton.
Presenter: Tony Carnahan, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
Title: The Development and Calibration of Techniques to Measure Energy Expenditure and Activity in Grizzly Bears
The annual Distinguished Faculty Address honors a faculty member who has risen to the front ranks of their discipline through achievements in research, scholarship, and teaching.
Are you nervous about negotiating a salary? Though most companies are willing to negotiate, most people never try. Learn techniques and practice negotiating to give you confidence and poise.
Join other Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture students in an evening of board and card games, a variety of snacks and treats, and socializing with students with similar academic interests.
This poster session celebrates the achievements of faculty, staff, and graduate students engaged in WSU’s central mission: the advancement of scholarship, research, and the arts.
Today’s casinos serve as gathering places for native American communities just as sites of games and competitions did for our ancestors. Dr. Arnold will explain how contemporary Indian gaming connects to cultural traditions of spirituality and gambling that reinforce tribal political sovereignty in the present.
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. A good resume gets you noticed; strong interview skills will help you land the job.
Register in Handshake.
Pre-Reception and refreshments in Neill 216, from 3:00pm – 4:00pm.
Join WSU Carson College of Business (CCB) students for a networking night to remember during their annual visit to NYC. All Big Apple Coug alumni, students, and friends in any industry are welcome to attend an evening of Cougs and conversations at City Winery Grand Central – Vanderbilt Hall. Twenty current CCB students, faculty, and staff are eager to meet you! Heavy appetizers and two drinks will be provided, courtesy of CCB.
Start your WSU Pullman Spring Family Weekend with the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center!
We’re here to help with everything from basic weekend logistics like parking, transportation, wayfinding and directions to plotting your adventures and activities with dining, shopping and local attractions, and events planned specifically for Cougs and their crews!
WORKSHOP – How’s your day going? Tips for effectively teaching during your clinical day.
This in-person workshop will address the fundamentals of effective clinical teaching
The electric power grid of the future faces many challenges including rapidly increasing quantities of renewable generation and growing threats from extreme weather events, which necessitate the development of new computational tools. The first part of this talk will focus on one extreme weather event: elevated wildfire ignition risk. Wildfire risk mitigation is a critical consideration in regions like the Western United States, where, historically, electric power systems have ignited some of the most destructive wildfires.
Speaker: William Smith
Title: Predictive Spectroscopic and Thermodynamic Properties of Complex Solutions and Interfaces
Presented by Megan Goddard , PhD Student
Title: Lanthionine Ketenamine Phosphonate Analogues as Small Molecule Treatments for Neurological Disorders