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Wednesday, March 1 @10 am
Hostile Terrain 94 Workshop
Exhibition
Holland Library

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.

Wednesday, March 1 @7 pm
VCEA Games and Grub Night for Undergraduate Students
Stephenson Residence Hall

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.

Thursday, March 2 @4 pm
Boeing Speaker Series: Career Development
Careers / Jobs
Online

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.

Friday, March 3 @4 pm
Center for Arts and Humanities — Seminar Series for First-Generation Graduate Students
Workshop / Seminar
Avery Hall

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.

Monday, March 6 @4:10 pm
Chemistry Departmental Seminar – Prof. Brian A. Powell
Workshop / Seminar
Fulmer Hall

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. …

Tuesday, March 7 @10 am
Study Abroad Fair
Careers / Jobs
Compton Union Building

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.

Tuesday, March 7 @3 pm
Improve Your Time Management with Apple®
Compton Union Building

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.

Wednesday, March 8 @11 am
Arts & Sciences 3 Minute Thesis Challenge
Presentation
Spark

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.

Thursday, March 9 All day
Tenor/Bass Fest
Kimbrough Music Building

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…

Thursday, March 9 @12 pm
BPC Bites 5 – Appearance of Deliverables
Workshop / Seminar
Commons Student Center

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.

Thursday, March 9 @7:30 pm
Choir Concert
Bryan Hall

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…

Friday, March 10 @4:10 pm
Physical Chemistry Seminar – Peter Jensen, Chemistry Graduate Student
Workshop / Seminar
Fulmer Hall

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,…

Monday, March 20 @4:10 pm
Chemistry Departmental Seminar – Prof. Takashi Tsukamoto
Workshop / Seminar
Fulmer Hall

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

Tuesday, March 21 @9 am
Spring 2023 Grad Fair
Compton Union Building

One-stop-shop for completing pre-Commencement tasks

Tuesday, March 21 @11 am
ESIC SP23 Power Seminar Series: Realistic Learning in Power Grids: A Physics-Informed Machine Learning Prospective by Dr. Deepjyoti Deka
Presentation
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Building

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.

Tuesday, March 21 @6:30 pm
2023 Robert Jonas Lecture in Biology
Compton Union Building

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.

Wednesday, March 22 @8:30 am
Clinical Health InterProfessional Scholarship (CHIPS) Mini-course
Online

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.

Wednesday, March 22 @9 am
Spring 2023 Grad Fair
Compton Union Building

One-stop-shop for completing pre-Commencement tasks

Wednesday, March 22 @11 am
Around The World At Northside Café
Northside Cafe in Regents Residence Hall

Join us, on March 22nd, for this exciting cultural exploration across of variety of cuisines.

Wednesday, March 22 @12 pm
Share the Mic: Highlighting Women in Leadership
Terrell Library Atrium

Join the WSU Pullman Chancellor’s Office for a series of fireside chat installments celebrating Women’s History Month this March 2023.

Wednesday, March 22 @1:10 pm
SnackChat With The Dean — Mary Rezac
Reception / Open House
Wegner Hall

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!

Wednesday, March 22 @6 pm
David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities – Public Lecture Series
Lecture
Off Campus

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.

Thursday, March 23 @4 pm
Power of Voice: Communication & Climate Crisis in the Western United States
Online

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.

Thursday, March 23 @4 pm
BW Design Group Virtual Information Session
Careers / Jobs
Online

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.

Friday, March 24 @5 pm
WSU College of Veterinary Medicine Spring Conference 2023
Conference / Symposium
Bustad Hall

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.

Friday, March 24 @5 pm
Bustad Lecture with Meg Daley Olmert
Lecture
Animal Disease Biotech Facility (ADBF)

Meg Daley Olmert, author of “Made for Each Other: The Biology of the Human Animal Bond”

Friday, March 24 @5:15 pm
Meet & Greet with Cougar Tennis and Coach Atawo

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!

Saturday, March 25 @10 am
Kids’ Science and Engineering Day
Workshop / Seminar
Sloan Hall

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!

Monday, March 27 @10:30 am
Towards Situation-Aware Resilient Power Grids for Massive Renewable Energy Integration presented by Dr. Yuzhang Lin, University of Massachusetts
Presentation
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Building

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.

Tuesday, March 28 @10 am
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Open 3/28-5/6
Exhibition
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

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.

Tuesday, March 28 @11 am
Crimson and Gray Day
WSU System-wide

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!

Tuesday, March 28 @11 am
AGI SP23 Power Seminar Series: Transactive Energy: Incentive-based Coordination Strategies for Enabling DERs to Provide Grid Services by Dr. Monish Mukherjee, PNNL
Presentation
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Building

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.

Tuesday, March 28 @12:30 pm
Organic Chemistry Seminar – Aaron Hendricksen, Chemistry Graduate Student
Workshop / Seminar
Fulmer Hall

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.

Tuesday, March 28 @3 pm
Creating Presentations in Keynote
Compton Union Building

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.

Tuesday, March 28 @4 pm
The Eleven Practices of Effective Postgraduate Research Supervisors
Online

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…

Wednesday, March 29 @11 am
Share the Mic: Highlighting Women in Leadership
Terrell Library Atrium

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.

Wednesday, March 29 @7 pm
VCEA Games and Grub Night
Stephenson Residence Hall

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.

Thursday, March 30 @9 am
2023 Showcase: Academic Showcase
Exhibition
Compton Union Building

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.

Thursday, March 30 @12 pm
Pettyjohn Lecture: More than Casinos: Concepts of Wealth and Tradition in Indian Gaming
Lecture
Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE)

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.

Thursday, March 30 @4:10 pm
Nail Your Interview
Careers / Jobs
Sloan Hall

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.

Friday, March 31 @8 am
Family Weekend Festivities at the BVC
Brelsford WSU Visitor Center

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!

Friday, March 31 @8:10 am
Tips for effectively teaching during your clinical day.
Workshop / Seminar
Veterinary Teaching Hospital

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

Friday, March 31 @10:30 am
EECS Power Faculty Candidate Seminar: Wildfire Risk Mitigation and Data-driven Methods for Electric Power Systems by Dr. Alyssa Kody, Argonne National Lab
Presentation
Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Building

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.

Friday, March 31 @3 pm
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artist Talks & Reception
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Join us on Parents’ Weekend Friday, March 31, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. for short talks by the four graduate candidates featured in the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Each artist will speak briefly to introduce the body of work they are presenting in the exhibition. The talks will be followed by an opening reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Pavilion Gallery of the museum. 2023 MFA candidates are Shanda Stinebaugh, Adam Stuart, Sean Sullivan, and Allen Vu. This event is free and open to the public, please feel free to stop by and bring a friend!

Friday, March 31 @3:10 pm
Chemistry Seminar – William Vance, Chemistry Graduate Student
Workshop / Seminar
Fulmer Hall

Metallic nanoparticles are nanoscale particles of metals that have unique properties with applications in various fields such as medicine, catalysis, sensing, and energy. Anisotropic metallic nanoparticles exhibit distinctive optical, electronic, and catalytic properties that depend on their shape and size. They can also show enhanced catalytic activity and selectivity for various reactions due to their exposed facets and edges.

Friday, March 31 @5 pm
2023 Showcase: Celebrating Excellence Banquet
Reception / Open House
Compton Union Building

Join us in honoring the outstanding achievements of WSU faculty and staff. The awards program recognizes distinguished members of the University community.

Friday, March 31 @7:30 pm
Opera Performance
Bryan Hall

PROGRAM

Many moons ago in a far off place” lived a gloomy Prince Dauntless in search of a princess. When Princess Winnifred arrives, she is not what the court expects but maybe just what they need.  The musical comedy, Once Upon a Mattress, a retelling of the fairy tale,…