College of Arts and Sciences

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Carsten Volkner, “Ion transport proteins in plastid signaling, regulation, and photosynthesis”, SBS PhD exit seminar.

The Fine Arts Department presents an artist lecture and exhibition of work by Donté K. Hayes, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program.

Hayes’s art practice pulls from an interest in hip-hop culture, history, and science fiction. For Hayes, ceramics becomes a bridge to conceptually integrate disparate objects and…

A guided tour of December night skies and “The Sun: Our Living Star.”
Friday, Dec. 3, 7:00 pm & Sunday, Dec. 5, 5:00 pm

Quadrupole mass filters and guides are integral components in many mass spectrometers. These mass filters are typically operated with sinusoidal waveforms applied to the electrodes with opposing electrodes electrically connected and each pair receiving rf potentials that are 180° out of phase from each other.

The lithium-sulfur battery is considered a promising substitute for the current Lithium-ion battery due to its high theoretical energy density and relatively low cost. However, the discharge progress of lithium-sulfur batteries is still not fully understood because of the complexity of intermediate polysulfides products.

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Music lovers across the Palouse can usher in the holiday season with WSU School of Music’s inaugural Holiday Celebration: Let It Glow on December 4, 2021, at 2:00 pm in in a fully decorated and glowing Bryan Hall Theatre on the WSU-Pullman Campus. This event is free and…

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Joseph Crawford, Title TBA, SBS PhD exit seminar

RNA undergoes extensive modification through enzymatic post-transcriptional editing events. Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing is one of the most widespread and impactful of these modifications and is catalyzed by adenosine deaminases acting on RNA (ADARs).

Though the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare warrants genuine enthusiasm, meaningful impact will require careful integration into clinical care. AI tools are susceptible to mistakes and rarely capable of capturing all of the nuances pertaining to a complex clinical situation. Thus, we propose approaches designed to augment, rather than replace, clinicians during clinical decision making. In this talk, Associate Professor Jenna Wiens will highlight three related research directions pertaining to: i) a transfer learning approach for mitigating potentially harmful shortcuts when making diagnoses, ii) a simple yet accurate deterioration index that generalizes across hospitals and iii) lessons learned during deployment of a risk stratification tool for predicting healthcare-associated infections. In summary, there’s a critical need for machine learning in healthcare; however, the safe and meaningful adoption of these techniques will require collaboration between clinicians and AI.

A guided tour of December night skies and “The Phantom of the Universe,” a fulldome movie about dark matter.

Fuel crops such as Sorghum bicolor and Panicum virgatum have been identified by The United States as Strategic Plants for rational bioengineering of the next generation of fuel crops. Under the Energy Independence Security Act of 2007, the U.S. established a national goal of replacing 30% of petroleum-based fuels with lignocellulosic fuels by the year 2030.