October 2021
This year’s Oktubafest begins with WSU’s tuba and euphonium professor Chris Dickey performing a faculty recital. This concert will feature original works for euphonium and tuba, including two world premieres of music written by Katahj Copley and Wayne Lu. Funding for these new compositions was…
School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Kristen Delevich, WSU, Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, “Exploring the role of puberty in adolescent brain maturation”
The Music of James Stephenson
We feature the music of Composer-in-Residence James Stephenson. Works include his “there are no words” and the incredible Bassoon Concerto “Dialogue of Self and Soul”.
Professor Aaron Bobrow- Strain from Whitman College will discuss how problems at the US- Mexico border are not solely a feature of failed immigration policies, but part of a larger story of an inequality involving deindustrialization, the destruction of unions, and the creation of a border security industrial complex.
Film by Laurent Tirard; in French w/English subtitles.
Haki R. Madhubuti is an award-winning poet, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, an essayist, educator, founder and publisher (Emeritus) of Third World Press (1967) and Third World Press Foundation.
Utopia Repaired: New American Music for Oboe
Utopia Repaired is a recital of new music for oboe from American composers Alex Shapiro (Washington), Laura Kaminsky (New York), Ingrid Stölzel (Kansas), and James Stephenson (Illinois). These works are part of an upcoming album by Keri E. McCarthy, oboe professor…
WSU Bands Return!
Come celebrate the return of live performances with the WSU Symphonic Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Works by Jennifer Jolley and Frank Ticheli. Also, we will feature composers-in-residence James Stephenson and Zachery Meier.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Amy Reines, Department of Physics at Montana State University. Dr. Reines will present their talk, “Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies”.
The Fine Arts Department presents an exhibition of work by Jacob Riddle, Assistant Professor, Career Track, Digital Technology and Culture.
Come along with a young woman on her personal quest to find a special place in the night sky. Narrated by Roxann Dawson, Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres of TV’s Star Trek: Voyager.
Uranothorite (Th1-xUxSiO4) solid solution is of great interest because of its geological relevance and potential applications as a nuclear waste form for actinides.
Terrestrial animals coordinate the elastic properties of their limbs’ joints during locomotion by activating specific muscles at specific times.
School of Biological Sciences seminar: Jordan Boersma, “Causes and consequences of variable testosterone circulation in two fairywren species,” SBS PhD exit seminar
Self-organization and assembly processes are crucial steps in the making of a wide range of materials and, in turn, have a great impact on their performance. For instance, the crystal structure, or polymorph, that forms during nucleation often dictates the bioavailability of pharmaceutical drugs, or the mechanical and catalytic properties of metal alloys and inorganic nanoparticles.
World Music Day: Strings Around the World
Featuring:
Crimson Ties: WSU World Music Ensemble
WSU Guitar Ensemble
Raza NorthWest: Traditional Son jarocho
WSU Professor Jennifer Sherman will be discussing the inequalities of the communities of rural Washington.
Film by Antoine Bergeon, with Guillaume Canet.
PROGRAM
The Washington State University School of Music will present their first jazz concert of the year on Tuesday, October 12, at 7:30pm, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The concert will feature faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest, the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band and Big Band II under the direction of Regents Professor and Coordinator of Jazz Studies Greg Yasinitsky.
On Wednesday October 13, from 2-4 p.m. join representatives from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA) and WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) for an introduction to MASC’s recently acquired tabletop letterpress.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Craig Cahillane, LIGO/CalTech. Dr. Cahillane will present their talk, “Controls and Inference for Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors”.
Seeing! A photon’s journey across space and time.
Porous materials can be used to help some of the most pressing issues such as carbon capture, energy storage, and the detection of environmental hazards.
With the growing concern over global climate change and increasing amounts of greenhouse gases contributing to said changes, alternative approaches to energy production for large scale power grid supply and small-scale transport vehicles have been studied in earnest.
WSU School of Music will present the 2021 Family Weekend Vocal Extravaganza on Friday October 15, 2021 at 7:30 pm in Bryan Hall Theatre. This concert is free to the public and donations are welcome. Audience members will be required to wear masks. WSU’s Opera Workshop, University Singers, and Concert Choir will perform.
Join us on Family Weekend for a smashing good time at the 16th Annual Pumpkin Drop. Sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Club, this pre-game, gravity-bound extravaganza celebrates the fun side of science by dropping pumpkins of all shapes and sizes from the highest point in Pullman: the 12th floor of Webster Hall.
School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Ursel Schuette, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, “Post-fire microbial community structure across different forest stand types and soil moisture levels in Interior Alaska”
Protein arginine methylation is a post-translational modification catalyzed by the Protein Arginine Methyltransferase (PRMT) enzyme family.
Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World, which received, respectively, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award.
Film by François Ozon.
Continuing with Oktubafest, this year’s guest artist is Jeremy Crawford (Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Alabama). He will play an eclectic recital of music from his recent albums and newly composed tuba music. Crawford will be joined by Karen Nguyen on piano.
The adaptive immune system consists of highly diverse B and T cells whose unique surface receptors enables them to mount specific responses against a multitude of pathogens.
Performing Yamaha Artist, Jennifer Cavanaugh (University of Montana), will perform a program of recent music for oboe and English horn. WSU professors Keri McCarthy (oboe) and Yuna Roh (piano) assist with charming works by Thea Musgrave and Alyssa Morris. Solo repertoire for oboe and English horn include works…
Bimetallic metal nanoparticles are of broad interest due to their unique optical and catalytic properties which provide hybrid characteristics in comparison to monometallic counterparts.
Christopher Wilson will present an evening of exciting music for marimba, including the world premiere of a piece by Professor Emeritus David Jarvis as well as other works by Keiko Abe, Eric Sammut, and WSU alumnus Zachery Meier. The recital will feature Professor of Bassoon Jacqueline Wilson.
BE A MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY!
The Washington State University School of Music would like to invite prospective students and their parents/guardians to its Fall 2021 MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY open house. Join us in experiencing a day in the life of a WSU music student. This event…
School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Richard Gill, Brigham Young U, “Niche Opportunity and Community Assembly in Ecological and Evolutionary Settings”
Spectroscopy is a powerful tool for interrogating the matter, but decoding the message delivered by the spectra is far from trivial. How do we convert the spectra into what the nuclei and electrons are doing?
Film by Jean-Paul Salomé with Isabelle Huppert
The WSU Percussion Ensemble is back to in-person performance! Please join us for an evening of varied music for drums, keyboards, and even metal pipes! The program will include works by Anthony Cirone, Carlos Chávez, David Gillingham and more! WSU Professor of Flute, Dr. Sophia Tegart, will perform…
Guest lecturer and clinician Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer will present a guest lecture geared toward future music educators of all disciplines: instrumental, general, and choral. All music students and faculty are welcome to join for her engaging presentation.
Dr. Brinckmeyer is Professor of Music, Associate Dean and Director of Choral Music…
In this talk, I will present some recent and ongoing work at the UW Ion Trap group. Our main focus is on quantum computing and quantum simulations. T
To close this fall’s Oktubafest at WSU, members of the tuba-euphonium studio will perform a variety of solos, duets, and other chamber music. The concert will close with the WSU Tuba Choir performing Soundings by Steve Matchett and Innovation by Akira Toda.
Amber Vosk is a senior music education major who specializes in trumpet. This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the bachelor’s in music education degree. She is excited to share with you a variety of solo works that have been compiled across her time at…
The 6th Annual WSU Marching Band Championships will be at Gesa Field all day on October 30th. 15 of the best high school marching bands from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana will compete.
Ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night? We sure do love to scare ourselves.