What’s happening

Visit the Student Voting Hub on November 7 between 8 a.m.-8 p.m. in the CUB Senior Ballroom. At the Hub, you can register to vote, find voting info, print your ballot, and vote! #CougsVote

Social learning leaders are working to bring people together to learn from each other across boundaries, with the goal of building more interconnected, inclusive, and resilient partnerships and communities. The goal is to create rich and interconnected systems that are building pathways for integration and collaboration.

This two-hour summit provides time for all WSU community members to learn more about what it means to be a student-ready campus. Rather than focusing primarily on whether students are college-ready, institutions are becoming student-ready by changing policies, processes, and practices to better serve students and reduce barriers to success.

At the heart of the transition to a zero-carbon power system is a technological paradigm shift from conventional generation to renewable generation connected to the grid via power electronics. In this context, the literature and public debate mostly focus on the variability and intermittency of renewable generation and loss of machine inertia. At the same time, the rapid and massive integration of power electronics and renewables results in significantly different power system dynamics and challenges standard operating, control, and analysis paradigms. This talk will focus on a universal grid-forming control paradigm that is compatible with a wide range of emerging and legacy power generation, conversion, and transmission technologies and enables rigorous end-to-end stability analysis of tomorrow’s complex power system dynamics. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of challenges in control and stability analysis that need to be resolved to enable reliable and resilient zero-carbon power systems.

PRESENTERS: Drs. Jessica Bunch, Marcie Logsdon, & Leslie Sprunger

Title: “Understanding Mammalian Embryogenesis Through Characterization of the Transcription Factor Ankrd49”
Presenter: Julie Park
Advisor: Dr. Jon Oatley

The delivery of small molecule drugs across the blood brain barrier (BBB) is difficult, making the development of therapies for neurological diseases very challenging. Efforts have persistently been underway to develop novel nanocarriers which are capable of precisely transporting drugs across the BBB to target the specific regions of brain damage. Even if drugs or nanoparticles get across the impaired BBB following brain injury or neuroinflammation, their synergistic uptake into the critical brain cells such as neurons and activated microglia/macrophages involved in brain diseases remains challenging.

Join us for a fun game night. We’ll be playing Virtual Jeopardy on Zoom with a mental health theme. While we compete for awesome prizes, learn helpful information about improving your personal wellbeing and your overall success at WSU. All Cougs are welcome to join (from any of the 6 campuses) as we play games and learn from WSU’s Wellbeing Online. Sponsored by the Associated Students of Washington State University Global (ASWSUG).

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