College of Arts and Sciences

Organic/CBS Seminar
Speaker: Roya Kashfi, Graduate Student
Title: Applying Nanoparticles in Medicine

Chemistry Final Defense
Speaker: Elvin Cabrera
Title: Compressing Experimental Timescales in Drift Tube Ion Mobility – Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry

The CHARA Array combines the light of six 1-meter telescopes at optical and near-infrared wavelengths with baselines ranging from 34 to 331 meters to achieve milliarcsecond resolution. The Array is used to measure the sizes of stars, image stellar surfaces, detect close binary companions, and resolve the inner structure of circumstellar disks.

Dr. Megan Asaka (University of California, Riverside), author of Seattle from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the Making of a Pacific Coast City will give a talk titled “The Dividing Line: Race and Segregation in Early Seattle”.

April 5, WSU Choral Ensembles

Dean Luethi, director

Matt Myers, director

Elena Panchenko, piano

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Artist Talks and Reception

PChem Seminar
Speaker: Faraz Abounorinejad
Title: Solvatochromism and Rigidochromism of Red-Emitting Silicon and Germanium Rhodamine Dyes

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Celebrate the coming of spring with the cast of WSU Opera’s production of the comic opera The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana. The action all takes place in one day as a small Czech village celebrates a spring festival, complete with a maypole, a beer garden, a circus,…

A cultural exhibit and pysanky (Ukrainian Easter egg) demonstration will accompany a screening of five short documentaries, “Berehyni: Keepers of the Flame,” which will be introduced by Ukrainian women from the Pullman community. The films tell the stories of five Ukrainian women who use their individual talents and strengths in defense of Ukraine

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Celebrate the coming of spring with the cast of WSU Opera’s production of the comic opera The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana. The action all takes place in one day as a small Czech village celebrates a spring festival, complete with a maypole, a beer garden, a circus,…

Join the Cougar Marching Band, the WSU School of Music, and Washington State Magazine for “Bagels With The Band” on Sunday April 7th, 10am-noon.

Reception in Kimbrough 115, 10am-11am, with bagels and other breakfast items

Presentation and Q&A with Cougar Marching Band Director…

Guest speakers Mia Gleason of Tule Publishing and Katie Reed of Andrea Hurst & Associates Literary Agency—both of whom are seeking undergraduate WSU student interns for Fall 2024–will share overviews of their respective roles in the publishing industry, then describe what an internship with their company might look like. Q&A to follow, and a sign-up sheet for interested students pursuing the Editing & Publishing Certificate and hoping to apply for internships will be provided.

The conformation and rigidity of the backbone of organic macromolecules are pivotal factors determining the properties of these polymers, as well as their associated supramolecular assemblies and materials. For instance, when designing and synthesizing conjugated polymers for electronic and optical applications, a primary objective is often to achieve a rigid, coplanar molecular conformation. This can be realized by fusing the aromatic backbone building blocks into a ladder-type structure, thereby creating a conjugated ladder polymer.

Graduate Student Shamila Gopalakrishnan in Dr. Sharma’s group is giving a talk about Designing Dendrimers and Dendritic Polymers for Targeted Drug Delivery.

The annual T. G. Ostrom Lecture brings internationally renowned mathematics scholars to the WSU campus each spring. The lecture honors the late Professor Emeritus Theodore G. Ostrom, who retired from WSU in 1981 after 21 years as a WSU Mathematics Department faculty member. This year’s Ostrom Lecture titled “Numerical Simulation of Floods and Tsunamis” will be delivered by Dr. Randall LeVeque. Dr. LeVeque is an Emeritus Professor at University of Washington and a Fellow of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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This year’s Post-Ostrom Lecture Colloquium titled “Rapid Tsunami Forecasting Using Fake Quakes and Machine Learning” will be delivered by Dr. Randall LeVeque. Dr. LeVeque is an Emeritus Professor at University of Washington and a Fellow of SIAM, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

The Office of Research will host a Showcase of Arts & Humanities research, scholarship, and creative production. The evening will begin with flash talks from Process Grant Award Winners and will be followed by the debut of short videos featuring eight faculty from across units, including Art, Music, and Digital Technology and Culture.

Department of Physics & Astronomy
2024 S. TOWN STEPHENSON DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

Dr. David Wineland
Nobel Laureate, Philip H. Knight Distinguished
Research Chair and Research Professor,
University of Oregon

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The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring David Wineland, Nobel Laureate and Distinguished Research Chair and Research Professor, University of Oregon. Dr. Wineland’s talk, “Quantum Computers and Raising Schrodinger’s Cat”.

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Tentative Concert Schedule:

(Not including masterclasses, workshops, and rehearsal times for attendees)

Friday

1:00-1:30 – Opening Ceremony concert – KCH

7:00-7:30 – Horn Ensemble Concert – BHT

7:30-9:00 – US Army Brass Quintet – BHT

Saturday

1:00-1:30 – Horn Ensemble Concert – BHT

1:30-3:00 –…

April 12, WSU Trombone Studio Recital

Sarah Miller, director

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Graduate student Suvanker Saha is giving a talk about Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products – potential environmental contaminants and their removal options. Please come out and join the AER/I Seminar in Fulmer 125 at 3:10pm.

Graduate student, Rachael Bergman, is giving a talk about Radiolysis Derived Hydrogen Gas from Alumina Species in Nuclear Waste. The Seminar will take place in Fulmer 125 during AER/I Seminar.

Beyond Hope: Reception and Gallery Talk With Guest Curator Johanna Gosse

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Held: Works by 2nd Year MFA Candidates Cameron Kester and Sara St Clair

Join us for a series of short artist talks from current first and second-year MFA graduate students discussing their work and process, in conjunction with ART 598 Graduate Semina

Dept. of Chemistry Seminar
Speaker: Prof. Shelley Minteer, University of Utah
Title: Enzymatic Bioelectrocatalysis for Electrosynthesis

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Guitar Studio Concert

April 15th – 5:10pm

Kimbrough Concert Hall

Free Admission

Performance of all WSU Guitar Ensembles:

Class Guitar I and II

Guitar Performance Workshop

WSU Guitar Ensemble

Dissertation Title: Turbulence in Quantum Fluids

Prelim Defense given by graduate student Shinhyo Bang from the Department of Chemistry. Title: A Study on the Impact of Dopants on Uranium Dioxide Degradation

How to Be a Better Ally: An Inclusive Allyship Seminar

The HGSA will be hosting a film screening of Shusenjo: The Main Battlefield Of The Comfort Women Issue, followed by a virtual Q&A session with director Miki Dezaki.

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Thesis Title: A Reduced Dimensional Monte Carlo Method: Preliminary Integrations

WSU’s own RSO Mariachi Leones del Monte will host students from 5 high schools in a day of campus tours and workshops. There will be a performance, open to the public, in Kimbrough Concert Hall at 1pm.

Sponsored by the RSO Mariachi Leones del Monte

Saudade: a pop-up exhibition featuring new works by artists enrolled in the Spring 2024 Art 498 capstone course

The Trickster is popularly portrayed as a being who animates and enlivens humanity’s oldest stories. How can the Trickster character be applied to our politics today?

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Celebrate spring in the Palouse with the WSU Choral Ensembles for their spring concert “Feel the Passing Time.” Performing ensembles include the WSU Chamber Singers, University Singers, Treble Choir, and Concert Choir. All WSU choral ensembles will combine for a performance of John Corgliano’s Fern Hill with WSU…

Washington State University Vancouver Native American Programs and Collective for Social and Environment Justice invite the public to attend a three-day conference entitled, SJCon: Health and Environmental Justice: Constructing Coalitions at the Intersections of Extraction, Militarism, and Climate Collapse.

Dissertation Title: Quantum Statistical Physics of Weakly Couple Systems: Perturbation Theory, Entanglement, Quantum Coherence, Equilibration, and Thermalization

AER/I seminar featuring two Graduate students: Kenita Dahal from Dr. Guo’s Group and Raphael Adewale from Dr. Moreau’s Group.

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Logan Terry presents “A Trip Down Memory Lane”, reminiscing on the good ol’ days of college before heading out to the real world. In collaboration with Elena Panchenko on piano, this recital will showcase works by Eugene Bozza, Franz Strauss, and Michael Davis to remember the fun times…

Dissertation Title: Applications of Quantum Interference in Bose-Einstain Systems

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inFOCUS: “Now America” New Music by Contemporary American Composers

“inFOCUS” is a music series curated by the Rodrigues-Nguyen Duo which highlights music composed for violin and piano. The present program features the music of three outstanding contemporary American composers: John Adams’ Road Movies, David P. Jones’ Los Sospechosos de…

Department of Chemistry Seminar
Hosting Lingfeng He from North Carolina State University
Title: Advanced Characterization of Irradiated Nuclear Fuels

CAH Public Lecture: The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704 – 1894

Dr. Jacqueline Frair is a full professor at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY where she also serves as Director of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station. Her expertise lies with charismatic mammals and her research collaborations have spanned the globe, ranging from threats to moose along their southern range limit in the eastern U.S. to the behavioral ecology of human-lion conflict in Africa.

Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Conference

Job Opportunities for English Majors

Doctoral Preliminary Oral Exam by Natalie Yaw. Natalie is a graduate student of Chemistry in Dr. Guo’s group. The presentation title: The effect of cation substation and valency on formation energetics of brannerite ceramics for nuclear waste applications.

The first Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Conference (IAHC), organized by the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities. The theme of the conference is Connecting Communities.

Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries (AZMBs) offer significant promise as an alternative to conventional Lithium-ion batteries due to their high capacity, cost-effectiveness, and safety. However, practical implementation faces challenges such as dendrite formation, hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), and passivation of the anode.

Dr. Maiorov, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, is visiting WSU Chemistry and Math department to discuss, How to Learn Physics Using ‘Tuning Forks’.