College of Arts and Sciences

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Vivienne Baldassare, Washington State University.

School of Music faculty tubist Chris Dickey will perform solo tuba works by Rodger Vaughan, Robert Spillman, Asha Srinivasan, Walter Ross, and Domenico Gabrieli.

WSU Instructor of Jazz and Classical Guitar, Gabe Condon, will perform a virtual recital.

The COVID-19 pandemic put new stresses on our system of elections, and a shift in many states toward mail-in balloting. Are mail-in ballots safe? What’s driving the polarization of mail-in balloting and what challenges lie ahead?

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Thomas Busch, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Julie Anne Wieck, soprano and Elena Panchenko, piano will present a program including selections from Henry Purcell’s Harmonia Sacra, Hugo Wolf’s Mörike Lieder, Georges Bizet’s Carmen, and Theron Kirk’s Prayers from the Ark. The recital will conclude with a set of songs by three African American composers, Margaret Bonds, William Grant Still and Lena McLin.

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Oboe Tapas is a recital “redefined” that will engage listeners’ senses of sound, sight, and taste. WSU professor, Keri E. McCarthy, will perform a dynamic recital of music for solo oboe with food and art pairings for audience members participating from the comfort of…

Nature has evolved diverse systems to carry out energy conversion reactions. Metalloenzymes such as hydrogenase, carbon monoxide dehydrogenase, acetyl coenzyme A synthase, and methane monooxygenase use earth-abundant transition metals such as nickel and iron to generate and oxidize small-molecule fuels such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, acetate, and methane.

Were the polls and election models in 2016 wrong? What do current polls and models tell us, and how reliable are they?

This presentation affirms Black musical expression as a viable form of American culture. Born out of documented duress, the musical contributions of enslaved Africans in the earliest days of United States history exemplifies a creative synthesis of cultural preservation and adaptation, that conceived and birthed songs of sorrow, yet hope.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Aaron Vincent, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy, Queen’s University. Dr. Vincent will present his talk, “Very small black holes at very large experiments”.

Queer Abolition, the 2020 InQueery Symposium, responds to both recent and long-standing calls from queer and feminist activists to address police misconduct and violence.

Ross Gay is the author of three books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.

The recital contains original and arranged works for the horn ranging from the 18th Century to the 21st Century. The concert will be live streamed from Taipei, Taiwan

Mr. Dale will perform a program of 20th Century contemporary classical music for saxophone which will include; Paul Creston’s Sonata, Improvisation, by Eugene Bozza and Ten Figures of A Dancer, by Pierre Max Dubois.

What are the likely outcomes in the congressional races this year, and how will they impact politics and policymaking?

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Jorge Leite Noronha, PUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Noronha will present his talk, “Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Particle Colliders to Neutron Star Mergers”.

“Tales Grandmother Spun” concerns my father’s mother, Mary Winona (Plaster) Boag, who was born in Oregon in 1889. I did not know her.

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The WSU Voice Area is proud to present the 35th annual WSU Vocal Extravaganza. This year, due to COVID-19, our presentation will include not only performances by our WSU vocal ensembles, but also presentations by our current voice students and our alumni. We’re also pleased to provide a…

How might the Senate’s effort to push through Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination impact the upcoming election?

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The WSU Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Wilson, will be presenting a completely virtual concert. Each student has recorded their works individually, some recorded at Kimbrough Music Building, some at their homes, and even some recorded outdoors! The program includes works by Jane Boxall, Elliott…

Recent years have seen references to “fake news” and bias in news coverage. How should the media cover the election, and what would happen if the election day results are not clear?

Alexa Tarantino is a saxophonist, woodwind player, teaching artist, traveler, blogger, and consultant based in New York City.

She will be presenting on Women in Jazz. Our focus with this guest artist is to make people aware of the inequality of gender in the field of jazz and educate people as to…

What happens when families face the incarceration of loved ones? How do families with an incarcerated family member, particularly a parent, develop resilience? Join our experts live as they discuss how these issues impact Black families.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Kim Bott, University of California, Riverside. Dr. Bott will present her talk, “The invisible giants: Signatures of hot Jupiters and smaller, cooler worlds in polarized light”, via Zoom.

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Jake Berreth, Junior flute performance major, will be performing a recital of flute works by Ian Clarke, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Clara Schumann, and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. He will be joined by pianist Elena Panchenko on the Schumann.

Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the central nervous system (CNS) water channel protein in charge of controlling water homeostasis and neuronal activity.

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Vocal Performance Major, Anya Guadamuz, and Music Education Major, Kristina Gaumnitz are presenting their Senior Recital on October 30th at 3:10PM accompanied by Elena Panchenko. The program begins with a duet, Caro Bella from Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel, followed by the works of Robert…

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