March 2021
Major Jackson is the author of five books of poetry, including The Absurd Man (2020), Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006), and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019, Renga for Obama, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems.
The WSU Center for Arts and Humanities in partnership with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will be hosting the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture and Programming Series in Spring 2021.
Energy Systems Innovation Center Power Group Seminar Series presents “The Next-Generation Retail Electricity Markets in the Context of Distributed Energy Resources” by Dr. Josue Prado, WSU-Vancouver
A Fine Line explores why less than 7% of Head Chefs and restaurant owners are women, when traditionally women have always held the central role in the kitchen.
Please join us to learn more about a career at E. & J. Gallo Winery and more specifically, Winegrowing internship opportunities currently available for the upcoming year.
We look forward to meeting and chatting with all of you!
Seattle City Light (SCL) delivers electricity to over 460,000 business and residential customers in the Seattle area. SCL has maintained carbon neutral status since 2005, and over 80% of the power delivered is generated from clean, carbon-free hydroelectricity.
James Hoggan is president of a public relations firm in Vancouver, British Columbia and the best-selling author of I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up.
Join us for the annual Burtenshaw Lecture featuring Chad Mackay of Fire and Vine Hospitality.
Stephen Skowronek is the Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political and Social Science at Yale University.
Personal plans, problem/opportunity analysis, and organizational focus can all benefit from a well-constructed Goal Tree. This session introduces the concepts, elements, and application of this valuable and high-impact tool.
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Catherine “Katie” Cooper, Washington State University. Dr. Cooper will present her talk, “Craton Stability: What’s Thickness (and shape) Got To Do With It”.
A panel discussion on civility with elected officials from Washington State and students from all campuses at WSU.
Join Sandi Brabb from Voiland College Internships & Career Services to talk about how to best prepare yourself for the fair, what you can do now to get ready, and how to participate in the fair! Construction Management, Construction Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design and Construction Management majors are encouraged to attend.
Nitrogen is an interesting material exhibiting molecular and polymer like behavior as well as melt maximum at high temperatures. At very high pressure, nitrogen forms an amorphous phase with a nonmolecular semiconductor characteristics.
Gather with us to celebrate the highlights of the School of Hospitality Business Management program and to welcome the 2021 Hall of Fame inductees.
In the U.S. Pacific Northwest, one species of salmon, (coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch), annually exhibit unexplained acute mortality upon stormwater exposure when adult salmon
migrate to urban and near urban creeks to reproduce.
Does our current federal income tax system hold back economic growth and make it easy for some to cheat the system?
Meet the panelists and hear about the hiring processes at their firms!
Neuro 2: Understanding Vestibular Disease – Dr. Hilary Wright and Supporting Faculty Member Dr. Yael Merbl
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Gail Zasowski, University of Utah. Dr. Zasowski will present her talk, “Galactic Archeology, Near and (Sort of) Far” via Zoom.
This event has been moved to April 23 at 7:30 PM.
Zoom in for the College of Arts & Sciences semi-finals of the WSU 3 Minute Thesis competition. Each PhD contestant will present a compelling oration on their thesis and its significance in just three minutes—and using just one visual slide—in language even non-specialists can understand.
Historically, the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) theory of superconductivity, was established by the attractive interaction between the electrons when mediated by phonons;
Discover contemporary urban design principles from mid-century mall interiors.
ur development of digital waveform mass spectrometry evolved from our overarching goal to increase the working range of mass spectrometers so that large biomolecules and their complexes can be analyzed in low charge states.
Kim Lane Scheppele Is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law. Since 2010, her focus has been on the rise of autocratic legalism in Europe and around the world.
Organic Chemistry Seminar
Phil Cox: Research Fellow, Discovery Platform Technologies
Title: “Part 1-Machine Learning in Drug Discovery, Managing the Hype and Part2-Data Driven Drug Discovery”
Catina Bacote is a writer and assistant professor of English at St. John’s University. She specializes in creative nonfiction and her work draws on personal story and social history.
This event has been postponed until Fall 2021.
Joel Lininger presents a night of piano music that celebrates the emotional impact of music. From the meditative and reflective sounds of Messiaen, to the triumphant and victorious chords of Beethoven, to the mischief of ragtime, Joel hopes to remind everyone that in spite of a world in…
Join WSDOT for a Virtual Career Open House. Hear from guest speakers about their experiences and get your application and career-related questions answered.
The WSU Center for Arts and Humanities and the WSU School of Music is excited to present a panel discussion featuring Jennifer Grim, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, and Danielle Kuhlmann. All three performers have achieved national and international recognition for their chamber music recordings and live concerts, and maintain substantial solo and…
Presented by Dr. Anil N. Netravali, Jean and Douglas McLean Professor of Fiber Science, Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, Cornell University
The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Alexie Leauthaud, University of California Santa Cruz. Dr. Leauthaud will present her talk, “The Galaxy-Halo Connection from Gravitational Lensing”, via Zoom.
The Department of Fine Arts presents an artist talk with Los Angeles-based artist Kori Newkirk, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program.
The Voiland College School of Design and Construction Virtual Design Career Fair will take place on Handshake’s virtual career fair platform. Employers will be available to meet with students on Thursday, March 18, 5-7 p.m. (PST).
This event has been postponed until Fall 2021.
Join us to ask career and technology questions to a panel from Microsoft, Avista, and SEL. We formed this panel from two somewhat different industries to give you a chance to hear different perspectives to your career questions.
Melamine (C3H6N6) and its derivatives are high-production-volume chemicals that are widely used in the production of ready-to-assemble furniture, disinfectants, laminate floors, kitchenware etc.
Metalloactinyl complexes are of interest in actinide chemistry due to their unique and relatively unexplored transition metal-actinide bonds.
This event will be postponed until Fall 2021.
X-ray spectroscopy is a widely used technique at synchrotron radiation sources for analyses of the electronic and structural parameters of materials.
Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have had long standing, yet informal, research collaborations in the general area of the nuclear sciences.
Trumpet and artist and Director of the Stanford University Jazz Band, Mike Galisatus, is presenting a special, virtual clinic “Jazz Trumpet: Lead, Section and Solo Playing,” for our students but all interested instrumental and vocal students would benefit from attending. The session will be offered on ZOOM (contact Greg…
Proteins can be covalently conjugated with small-molecule labels to achieve a variety of functions. For example, proteins can be labelled with drug molecules to target specific cells for disease therapies, or a radioactive or fluorescent label can be used to detect proteins in a Western blot.
C.S. Giscombe is the author of many books, including the forthcoming Similarly, four poetry volumes, and a selection of new poems. His most recent books are Ohio Railroads (2014, a long poem in the form of an essay, including maps), Border Towns (2016, essays having to do with poetry), and Overlapping Apexes (2017, a long poem).
Our first Spring Concert featuring the WSU chamber orchestra, symphonic band, and members of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble! A mixture of in-person and virtual rehearsals this semester has resulted in tonight’s presentation of full and chamber works for strings and winds. We hope you’ll join us on our…
The Digital Technology and Culture Department is proud to present the Expert Series: a broad array of industry professionals and researchers in graphic design, web design, UX design, social media, communications, game design, animation, systems design, and more.
CE Graduate students are invited to join Sandi Brabb from the VCEA Internships & Career Services office to learn tips & tricks for their resumes, CV, and elevator pitch. Sponsored by the CE Grad Student Association.
As the US electricity grid continues to develop, long-term planning is complicated by a lack of consistency in policy and operations. A National Academy of Engineering Committee of experts spent two years gathering input and has developed a comprehensive report on the pressing challenges, forces and pressures acting on the US grid.
In this presentation, Jessi Hall, Sr. Director for Vertical Integration, will share how SEL came to the decision to vertically integrate PCBs, whey they chose Moscow, Idaho, as well as, what is unique and interesting about the new facility.
In the last thirty years, over 3000 planets have been discovered orbiting nearby stars. This flood of new worlds includes planets unlike any found in our own Solar System, from Jupiter-mass planets with years as short as our day to exotic rocky worlds twice as massive as the Earth.
The Department of Fine Arts presents an artist talk with San Diego-based artist Victoria Fu, supported by the Forst Endowed Visiting Artist Program.
Works by:
Guiseppe Torelli, Eugene Bozza, Alexander Arutunian, Babatunde Lea and Max Harrington
Special Guests:
Jared Kostenko, Sean Francis, Alex Minier, and James Carter
Molecular iodine [I2] is one volatile species of iodine that is released in the event of a nuclear accident. The release of radioiodine poses a concern to public health due to potential bioaccumulation of iodine from food and other sources.
The School of Languages, Cultures, and Race (SLCR) developed this lecture series seeking to connect faculty in SLCR with faculty in other academic units at WSU who are doing research on similar topics but from their respective disciplines in order to highlight scholarly connections and research convergences.
The Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) method is a flexible composite approach that can be adapted to determine energetic properties such as ionization potentials (IPs) and electron affinities (EAs), among others.
The Senior Tuba Recital for Ryan Williamson will be in Bryan Hall Theatre on Friday, March 26th at 5:10 P.M. There will be limited seating available as well as a live stream through the WSU School of Music Youtube page.
Featuring works for solo bassoon and bassoon and marimba by John Steinmetz, Adam Silverman, Nathan Daughtrey, and Justin Rubin.
This event will connect design teams, construction professionals, and facility owners with industry leading building product manufacturers.
Greg Brabeck received his PhD from WSU’s Department of Chemistry (AER division) in 2016. He currently works at Excellims in Boston, MA where he designs and supports hyphenated Ion Mobility and Mass Spectrometric devices.
The Digital Technology and Culture Department is proud to present the Expert Series: a broad array of industry professionals and researchers in graphic design, web design, UX design, social media, data visualization, communications, game design, animation, systems design, and more.
Pharmacologic agents for cancer immunotherapy have traditionally been dominated by macromolecules.
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the National University Transportation Center TriDurLE is hosting a free webinar with special speaker Dr. Carmen Swanwick, a bridge engineer at the Utah Department of Transportation.
The WSU percussion ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Christopher Wilson, will present a virtual concert via YouTube on March 30th at 7:30pm. The concert will feature an exciting array of music from movie scores, premieres of new music, to Brazilian samba! Every piece has been recorded ahead…
The School of Design and Construction looks forward to welcoming Central Advisory Board members for an interactive format at the spring meeting.
Join Washington State’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who will be discussing his office’s current lawsuit against Google, and other issues.
The Digital Technology and Culture Department is proud to present the Expert Series: a broad array of industry professionals and researchers in graphic design, web design, UX design, social media, data visualization, communications, game design, animation, systems design, and more.
A special, online Jazz Forum presented by Washington State University on Wednesday, March 31, at 7:30pm. Our guest presenter is Mike Galisatus, Director of the Stanford Jazz Band, Leader of the Mike Galisatus Big Band and top San Francisco Bay Area trumpet and flugelhorn artist. He also has significant experience…