College of Arts and Sciences

Concert 2 of the WSU Festival of Contemporary Art Music features works by WSU student composers, visiting composers from around the United States.

Concert 3 of the WSU Festival of Contemporary Art Music features performances by WSU faculty and students, playing works by WSU faculty and student composers, visiting composers from around the United States, and guest composer James Stephenson.

Concert 4 of the WSU Festival of Contemporary Art Music features electronic and acoustic works by WSU faculty and student composers and visiting composers from around the United States.

Concert 5 of the WSU Festival of Contemporary Art Music includes the world premiere of WSU professor Dave Jarvis’s new work for percussion orchestra, “Wynwood Project No. 2.”

The festival will close with performances of guest composer Jim Stephenson’s “Sonata for Oboe,” performed by featured performer Keri McCarthy, and “Symphony No. 1” performed by the WSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble led by Dr. Danh Pham.

How can we better make place a conscious factor in our scholarship, teaching, and community-building? How can we reframe landscapes that are indelibly marked by colonial and violent histories?

Join new WSU School of Music faculty members, Aaron Agulay, baritone and Mark Stevens, piano for an evening of Robert Schumann’s art songs.

Dr. Fraker is Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona, and a member of the Tuscon Symphony Orchestra.

This talk examines the Thai author Kampoon Boontawee’s novel Luk Isan (A Child of the Northeast), which recounts the story of a boy growing up in a drought-plagued village in the Northeast of Thailand (known as Isan) in the 1930s.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring our faculty candidate, Dr. Ashley Cook. Dr. Cook will present their talk, “Magnetic Weyl and Dirac Kondo semimetal phases in heterostructures.” 

Meet for refreshments before the lecture from 3:45 – 4:10pm in the foyer on floor…

Audience members will be invited to participate through a series of questions before and during the concert via an internet link allowing real-time results throughout the evening. Livestream available on YouTube at WSU Pullman Music

Musicians from across Eastern and Central Washington will travel to Pullman to perform at the WSU Concert Band Festival. Dr. Luke Johnson, from MidAmerica Nazarene University will serve as Head Clinician and Guest Conductor for this year.

Sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Biology Washington State University and the University of Idaho

Works in Progress Seminar

Title: Reproduction in Small Ruminants: Opportunities for Genetics and Genome Annotation

Presented by: Dr. Stephen White USDA/Washington State University

Refreshments available

All faculty, fellows, and students are…

Roundtable: Career Progression and Mobility in the Tech Sector

Sponsored by the Association for Women in Communication, WSU Everett chapter

Speaker: Vidya Subramanian, Entrepreneur, DevOps Consultant and member of the Society of Women Engineers

Part of the cross campus Week of Women in STEM wistem.wsu.edu/week/

Part of The Week of Women in STEM (WiSTEM)  go to wistem.wsu.edu/week/for more information

Work & Wellness Discussion: Braving the Wilderness

Sponsored by Association of Faculty Women and the Graduate & Professional Student Association

All are welcome.

Speaker: Melissa Mendoza, Regional Marketing Manager, Fluke Networks

Part of the Week or Women in STEM (WiSTEM). The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

Telehealth Discussion and Demo

Speaker: Sarah Orth, Telehealth Program Manager, Seattle Children’s Hospital

Part of the Week or Women ion STEM (WiSTEM). The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

EPIC (Electronic Health Record) Discussion and Demo

Speaker: Cheryl Grohn, Director of Clinical Informatics, Providence Health Systems

Part of the Week or Women ion STEM (WiSTEM). The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

In this workshop, participants will learn to effectively use Esri Story Maps, a program that facilitates the combination of detailed maps with text, images, and multimedia in the interest of telling precise and engaging stores.

Panelists Maureen Schmitter Edgecomb (Department of Psychology), Diane Cook (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), Shelley Fritz (College of Nursing) discuss their interdisciplinary research healthcare applications of smart-home technology  for patients with dementia and chronic illness and how this research relates to the Common Reading book “Soonish”.

All are…

Networking dinner for Women in STEM. RSVP.

More information at the WiSTEM website: wistem.wsu.edu/week/

Eugene Mason presents his graduate composition recital: The Year of Akira.

Visit the WiSTEM website for more information: wistem.wsu.edu/week/

Part of the week of Women in STEM (Week of WiStem). The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

Adolescents and young people of the African diaspora face relatively similar rates of depression and anxiety as their White peers but there are disparities in the treatment of mental illnesses.

Salary Negotiation Workshop part of the Week of Women in STEM (WiSTEM). Learn how to negotiate your salary.

Week of WiSTEM: The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

With email serving as the primary method of digital communication in the workplace, it’s important to know how to send a good one.

Join WSU Spokane for a #MeTooSTEM Panel Discussion and a sexual assault resource fair.

Part of the week of Women in STEM (Week of WiStem). The week is designed to help Washington State University women in STEM gain the confidence they need to excel in their futures.

This presentation will illuminate the underlying historical and globally applicable psychological barriers to depression treatment engagement and research participation cited by Black youth, families and communities.

The WSU Low Brass Collective is proud to host Dr. Danny Chapa from Stephen F. Austin State University for a guest artist recital. Dr. Chapa’s program includes Baroque and Romantic period transcriptions as well as music from the standard repertoire by Wiggins, Ito, and Sparke.

Susan “Sue” Paish is the Chief Engineer for Boeing Global Services. Named to this role in 2017, she leads the Engineer and Technologist function and is responsible for the technical excellence of the Engineer and Technologist workforce as well as the technical integrity and safety of Boeing Global Services’ products and services.

“Women of Hanford” presentation by Anna King, NWPB http://www.daughtersofhanford.org/

Panel discussion with three of the “daughters”

Jake Kargl, composers invites you to “Come out to catch a glimpse of the music I hear in my head.” Works that will be performed include marimba solos, electronic music, chamber music, orchestral music, and film music.

WSU Jazz Band II under the direction of Branson Bell, will present WSU Jazz Showcase. The band will perform a broad selection of big band tunes composed by Bob Mintzer, Neal Hefti, and more.

Flutist Breanna Daley and pianist Garrett Snedeker will be performing works by J.S. Bach, Poulenc, and Piazzolla.

Washington State University School of Music proudly presents Fatt Jazz featuring jazz fusion guitarist Brad Ard, and jazz fusion electric bassist Dave Snider from the WSU jazz faculty with special guest jazz drummer Dan Smith. Brad Ard and Dave Snider have created special arrangements and compositions for this concert.

Pulitzer Prize winning composer, John Luther Adams has been lauded for “melding the physical and musical worlds into a unique artistic vision that transcends stylistic boundaries.” His rarely performed work, Songbirdsongs for piccolos, percussion, and other instruments, explores the beauty of nature’s music through “translation” and “evocation” of birdsong. Along…

Most Americans think of national security a system of self-defense and military alliances. Join us as Andrew Preston explains where our ideas about national security come from and how they are connected to liberal politics and the origins of the welfare state.

The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering is hosting a seminar presented by Heather Kulik, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 Ena Wang is an internationally renowned Guzheng performer and has been invited to WSU to give a demonstration of the instrument along with a performance of it the same night.

Is the rise of populism connected to issues of race and culture? Are populist leaders in the U.S. more correctly identified as nationalists?

This concert is open to the public and without charge.

Have you ever wondered if you have the right to use an image in a presentation or on a website? Or maybe you’ve wanted to adapt an existing piece of music, change up a design, or include someone else’s infographic in your paper?

The Jazz Forum provides an opportunity for students, faculty, and guest artists to perform for the public in an informal setting.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Ruobing Dong, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Dr. Ruobing Dong will present their talk, “Title of Colloquium Talk.”

Meet for refreshments before the lecture at 3:45 – 4:10 p.m. in the foyer on floor G above…

Senior Garrett Snedeker will be giving his senior recital, as part of the Bachelor of Music degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy.

This concert is open to the public and without charge.

An evening of chamber music with the talented students of WSU School of Music. Livestream available on YouTube at WSU Pullman Music