September 2020
Recent events in cities like Portland and Kenosha have highlighted the growing radicalization of protest. Professor Lowndes will discuss the discursive links between the Trump campaign and the emergent right- wing street violence in historical context.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Rodrigo Fernandez, University of Alberta. Dr. Fernandez will present his talk, “Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients”.
School of Music Faculty Flutist Sophia Tegart will perfom works for solo flute by Bach, Feld, Paganini, Samuel and Uebayashi. Watch live on YouTube at WSUPullmanMusic.
This literary agent panel is the first in an exciting series featuring award-winning poets, novelists, essayists, agents, and editors in free, public readings, student workshops, and panel discussions.
Why do conspiracy theories play such a prominent part in contemporary politics? Professor Uscinski will discuss the role conspiracies theories play, who believes them, and why.
In this hands-on class, veteran literary agent Taryn Fagerness (a WSU alumna!) will teach students how to attract a literary agent to their work and the pitfalls to avoid on their journey to publication. Topic covered include: the art of writing a proposal, how to put together a list of agents to approach, current trends, and how to write the all-important query letter.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Meredith MacGregor, University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. MacGregor will present her talk, “How to Form a Habitable Planet”.
In this talk, I will discuss recent work in our group in which we made connections between proton transfer processes and hydrogen bonding and vibrational frequencies and intensities.
How should we view the Trump impeachment in the context of past impeachments? What are the possible political ramifications, and what these comparisons tell us about elections and the presidency?
Recent discoveries of dwarf galaxies hosting active galactic nuclei (AGN) suggest that massive black holes (MBHs) may be a common occurrence in such low-mass systems.
What will be the political consequences of the massive street protests over the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd?
Kelly Yang is the New York Times bestselling author of Front Desk, winner of the 2019 Asian Pacific American Award for Children’s Literature, Parachutes–YA debut novel, May 2020, Harpercollins–and Three Keys–Front Desk Sequel, Sept 2020, Scholastic.
What effects will Covid-19 have on our politics and the election? Why is the response to the pandemic so politically polarized, and what might bridge the partisan gap in America today?
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Ying-Ju Wang, ColdQuanta, Inc. Dr. Wang will present her talk, “Powering the Quantum Information – Industrial R&D for Quantum Evolution”, via Zoom.
This event will be livestreamed in two parts. Part I: interview, Part II: Performance
What is the Electoral College, and why do some key states matter so much? This talk will cover the basics around election math and campaign strategy.