March 2025
What: WSU Flute Day When: March 1, 2025, 10am-6pm Where: Kimbrough Music Building Admission: Free Admission
The WSU Flute Day is open to all flutists interested in advancing their flute skills. The event will include sessions on Tone & Vibrato, Technique, Flute Basics, an Orchestral Excerpts Masterclass,…
In observance of National Nutrition Month, join us Saturday March 1 for a drop-in family-friendly art activity between 10:30am and 12:30pm, and a tour of “The Art of Food” exhibition beginning at 11:00am. Staff and students from WSU’s Tukey Orchard will also be part of the experience at the museum during this program.
Join Jennifer Henrichsen and Benjamin Shors, WSU, and Matthew Powers¸University of Washington, talking about the crucial role that journalists play in reporting the news from state legislatures.
The School of Languages, Cultures and Race presents this year’s International Film Series “Would you give me the recipe?”: Cinematic Representations of Food, Cooking, Kitchens, and Restaurants. Today, Dr Rachel Halverson will present The Cakemaker (Israel and Germany, 2017), directed by Ofir Raul Grazier. A German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
Community Engaged Research – A Practitioner’s Perspective
ONE DAY ONLY: View the display of 100 ash-glazed plates created in the WSU ceramics lab
Please join the WSU Choirs for “CAN YOU HEAR MY HEART SING?” – a choral concert celebrating love. This free concert will take place on Thursday March 6th beginning at 7:30pm in Bryan Hall Theatre on the WSU Pullman campus. Performing ensembles include the WSU Chamber Singers, University…
PhD student, Ayomide Oluwafemi, is presenting a literature review about recent developments in metallenes.
Chemistry doctoral student, Cullen Greer, to defend the Development of Alternative Structures For Lossless Ion Manipulation.
Visiting from The University of Akron, Dr. Chrys Wesdemiotis to present to the chemistry group: Mass Spectrometry Advances for the Characterization and Imaging of Polymeric Materials.
English Department Talks and Workshop by Dr. Alan Rice
Dr. McPherson is a Professor and Interim Vice Dean for Research. He is also the Director of the Program of Excellence in Addictions Research (PEAR) at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Within PEAR, he is the Head and Principal Investigator of the Analytics and Psychopharmacology Laboratory (APPL). He is involved in multiple research projects ranging from basic human toxicology to spatial epidemiology to the health economics of new therapeutics. Currently, his primary area of foci is on the leveraging contingency management in combination with putative pharmacotherapies for alcohol, alcohol and tobacco combined, and methamphetamine and opioid use combined. His colloquium Diversifying the Statistical Toolkit to Advance Biomedical Research is on March 20th.
Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Webinar “Abortion Pills and the Pharmaceutical Geographies of Autonomous Health” Dr. Sydney Calkin
CAH Spring Seminar Series for First-Generation Grad Students
PhD student, Brooke Bonar to present on spinor-based relativistic actinide thermochemistry.
Dr. Laura Motta from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is visiting WSU to speak about the Isotope Effects.
Program:
Celebrate WSU’s current graduate candidate artists’ works with the museum’s latest “Master of Fine Arts Thesis” exhibition on view March 25 through June 28, 2025. This annual showcase is the culmination of three or more years work by the Master of Fine Arts graduate candidates. With its wide range of art-making approaches, the thesis exhibition provides a stimulating experience for faculty, students, and museum visitors. This year’s MFA candidates are Cameron Kester, Anna Le, Abigail Nnaji, and Sara St. Clair.
PhD student, Tyler Dabritz, to highlight method development for analysis of early land plants.
The WSU percussion ensemble will present their spring concert on March 25th a 7:30pm in Kimbrough Concert Hall! The concert will feature works for large ensemble, chamber music, and solos from the university percussion studio.
What: Faculty Artist Series: Solstice Wind Quintet in Concert When: March 26, 2025, 7:30pm Where: Kimbrough Concert Hall Admission: Free Admission
The Solstice Wind Quintet, comprised of WSU Sophia Tegart, flute, Keri E. McCarthy, oboe; Katie Rice, clarinet, Jacqueline Wilson, bassoon; Martin King, horn, will…
The annual T. G. Ostrom Lecture brings internationally renowned mathematics scholars to the WSU campus each spring. The lecture honors the late Professor Emeritus Theodore G. Ostrom, who retired from WSU in 1981 after 21 years as a WSU Mathematics Department faculty member. This year’s Ostrom Lecture titled “Flexible Filaments: Just Go With The Flow.” will be delivered by Dr. Lisa Fauci. Dr. Fauci is the Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University in the Department of Mathematics and is the 2023 Inductee to the National Academy of Sciences.
WSU’s Tom Preston will be discussing the Ukraine conflict, and the threat posed by a new authoritarian populous nationalism.
Dr. Preston is C.O. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University.
The annual T. G. Ostrom Lecture brings internationally renowned mathematics scholars to the WSU campus each spring. The lecture honors the late Professor Emeritus Theodore G. Ostrom, who retired from WSU in 1981 after 21 years as a WSU Mathematics Department faculty member. This year’s Ostrom Lecture Colloquium titled “A Closed-loop Neuromechanical Model Of Locomotion Of Lampreys With Spinal Injuries” will be delivered by Dr. Lisa Fauci. Dr. Fauci is the Pendergraft Nola Lee Haynes Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University in the Department of Mathematics and is the 2023 Inductee to the National Academy of Sciences.
PhD student, Fatima Obe, to talk about “STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE SENSITIVITY AND ENABLE TANDEM MASS ANALYSIS OF BIOMOLECULES USING DIGITAL WAVE TECHNOLOGY”.
Dr. Asmussen, visiting from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to present on Hanford Wastes of technetium speciation and relevancy to disposal.