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Prepare for the 2021 Fall Career Expo this year by creating or updating your resumes.

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This year’s Oktubafest begins with WSU’s tuba and euphonium professor Chris Dickey performing a faculty recital. This concert will feature original works for euphonium and tuba, including two world premieres of music written by Katahj Copley and Wayne Lu. Funding for these new compositions was…

For this year’s WSU Career Expo and VCEA Technical Fair we will be hosting both a virtual option and an in-person option to help you connect with employers wherever you are located. Employers are looking to hire for internships, full-time and part-time positions.

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Kristen Delevich, WSU, Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, “Exploring the role of puberty in adolescent brain maturation”

Join professional engineers for a session on interview how-to’s and elevator pitches followed by small group mock interviews.

Striated muscle is intricately designed for efficient muscle contractions. The precise assembly of actin-based thin filaments is crucial for muscle structure and function.

Get a chance to connect with Industry representatives who will be attending WSU’s fall Career Expo and VCEA Technical Fair.

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The Music of James Stephenson

We feature the music of Composer-in-Residence James Stephenson. Works include his “there are no words” and the incredible Bassoon Concerto “Dialogue of Self and Soul”.

Come out and network with the Public Power team to learn more about their internship program with some coffee and donuts! For more information, contact Sarah Giomi at smgiomi@energy-northwest.com.

Professor Aaron Bobrow- Strain from Whitman College will discuss how problems at the US- Mexico border are not solely a feature of failed immigration policies, but part of a larger story of an inequality involving deindustrialization, the destruction of unions, and the creation of a border security industrial complex.

Social your media: How to enlist, engage, and activate your audience. Session 1: Strategizing for social media use: Implications from theory and research.

Join Chief Architect Software at their info session to learn more about the company and their career and internship opportunities!

Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF is seeking engineering (ChemE, CE, EE, ME) graduates and prospective graduates to fill vacancies as nuclear, general, electrical, mechanical and civil engineers to work in the largest industrial maintenance facility in the Pacific.

The Carson College of Business will offer Insurance Industry Professionals Night, a free panel presentation open to the public via a zoom webinar.

Haki R. Madhubuti is an award-winning poet, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, an essayist, educator, founder and publisher (Emeritus) of Third World Press (1967) and Third World Press Foundation.

Film by Laurent Tirard; in French w/English subtitles.

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Utopia Repaired: New American Music for Oboe

Utopia Repaired is a recital of new music for oboe from American composers Alex Shapiro (Washington), Laura Kaminsky (New York), Ingrid Stölzel (Kansas), and James Stephenson (Illinois). These works are part of an upcoming album by Keri E. McCarthy, oboe professor…

The 2021-22 academic year offers numerous opportunities for the University to continue advancing its mission to serve the needs of the state of Washington and beyond.

WSU Bands Return!

Come celebrate the return of live performances with the WSU Symphonic Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Works by Jennifer Jolley and Frank Ticheli. Also, we will feature composers-in-residence James Stephenson and Zachery Meier.

Come meet and greet those working for the Wynn-Smith Landscape Architecture. Learn about the organization by attending a conference and networking with others.

Hort club’s 2 nd succulent plant sale.

Terrell Mall Thursday, Oct., 7th 9 am to 3 pm

5-1/2″ pots, $7.50 ea.

Echevarias and aeoniums for sale, cash or check.

An elephant eats 200 kg per day, or the equivalent of 200 grams every minute. How does an elephant feed so quickly? We present experiments with African elephants at the Atlanta Zoo and dissections of elephant trunks at the Smithsonian Institution.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Amy Reines, Department of Physics at Montana State University. Dr. Reines will present their talk, “Supermassive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies”.

The Fine Arts Department presents an exhibition of work by Jacob Riddle, Assistant Professor, Career Track, Digital Technology and Culture.

Come meet and greet those working for the Wynn-Smith Landscape Architecture. Learn about the organization by attending a conference and networking with others.

Come along with a young woman on her personal quest to find a special place in the night sky. Narrated by Roxann Dawson, Chief Engineer B’Elanna Torres of TV’s Star Trek: Voyager.

Overview of Cadence – what it does, markets it works with and vision, details of technology being developed at Cadence and opportunities at Cadence.

Uranothorite (Th1-xUxSiO4) solid solution is of great interest because of its geological relevance and potential applications as a nuclear waste form for actinides.

Terrestrial animals coordinate the elastic properties of their limbs’ joints during locomotion by activating specific muscles at specific times.

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Jordan Boersma, “Causes and consequences of variable testosterone circulation in two fairywren species,” SBS PhD exit seminar

Supported by the VICEROY initiative of the Department of Defense, the CySER Institute is a consortium of five institutions in the Northwest led by WSU with the University of Idaho, Montana State University, Columbia Basin College, and Central Washington University as partners.

Self-organization and assembly processes are crucial steps in the making of a wide range of materials and, in turn, have a great impact on their performance. For instance, the crystal structure, or polymorph, that forms during nucleation often dictates the bioavailability of pharmaceutical drugs, or the mechanical and catalytic properties of metal alloys and inorganic nanoparticles.

Bring your buddies, grab some snacks and come join us in watching Edward Scissorhands! ✂️ This event will be hosted by the Student Connections Committee.

World Music Day: Strings Around the World

Featuring:

Crimson Ties: WSU World Music Ensemble

WSU Guitar Ensemble

Raza NorthWest: Traditional Son jarocho

WSU Professor Jennifer Sherman will be discussing the inequalities of the communities of rural Washington.

Social your media: How to enlist, engage, and activate your audience. Session 2: Styling Your Social Brand Story

Come join on us on an industry tour with Lisa Latronica who is an Associate Program Manager for University Relations at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL).

Film by Antoine Bergeon, with Guillaume Canet.

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The Washington State University School of Music will present their first jazz concert of the year on Tuesday, October 12, at 7:30pm, in Kimbrough Concert Hall. The concert will feature faculty ensemble Jazz Northwest, the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band and Big Band II under the direction of Regents Professor and Coordinator of Jazz Studies Greg Yasinitsky.

On Wednesday October 13, from 2-4 p.m. join representatives from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU (JSMA) and WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) for an introduction to MASC’s recently acquired tabletop letterpress.

Wondering how to write an engaging cover letter? You’ll learn how to weave together your strengths with specific examples to write targeted cover letters that emphasize your fit or the job!

Webinar with Dr. Vishal Murthy

Wondering how to write an engaging cover letter? You’ll learn how to weave together your strengths with specific examples to write targeted cover letters that emphasize your fit or the job!

The second Boeing Speaking Series is to help future leaders discover individual leadership styles and discuss how to best apply that style to enable high functioning teams.

Megan Smith, Commercial Director for the North America Sales Team from Boeing, will present “Developing Your Leadership Style: The webinar will focus on helping aspiring professionals discover individual leadership styles and discuss how to best apply that style to enable high functioning teams.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Craig Cahillane, LIGO/CalTech. Dr. Cahillane will present their talk, “Controls and Inference for Current and Future Gravitational Wave Detectors”.

Seeing! A photon’s journey across space and time.

Porous materials can be used to help some of the most pressing issues such as carbon capture, energy storage, and the detection of environmental hazards.

With the growing concern over global climate change and increasing amounts of greenhouse gases contributing to said changes, alternative approaches to energy production for large scale power grid supply and small-scale transport vehicles have been studied in earnest. 

WSU School of Music will present the 2021 Family Weekend Vocal Extravaganza on Friday October 15, 2021 at 7:30 pm in Bryan Hall Theatre. This concert is free to the public and donations are welcome. Audience members will be required to wear masks. WSU’s Opera Workshop, University Singers, and Concert Choir will perform.

Join us on Family Weekend for a smashing good time at the 16th Annual Pumpkin Drop. Sponsored by the Physics and Astronomy Club, this pre-game, gravity-bound extravaganza celebrates the fun side of science by dropping pumpkins of all shapes and sizes from the highest point in Pullman: the 12th floor of Webster Hall.

Ceco Concrete Construction will be holding interview sessions on-campus for open positions for new graduates and interns!

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Ursel Schuette, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, “Post-fire microbial community structure across different forest stand types and soil moisture levels in Interior Alaska”

Protein arginine methylation is a post-translational modification catalyzed by the Protein Arginine Methyltransferase (PRMT) enzyme family.

Ceco Concrete Construction is hosting an on-campus Information Session! Come learn about open positions for New Graduates and Interns! Ceco is a nation-wide leading provider of concrete formwork services for the construction industry.

This talk focuses on the synthesis of data-based online algorithms to optimize the behavior of networked systems – with a specific focus on power grids – operating in uncertain, dynamically changing environments, and with human-in-the-loop components.

Are you nervous about negotiating salary? Though most companies are willing to negotiate, most people never try.

Social your media: How to enlist, engage, and activate your audience. Session 3: Strategically crafting your digital campaign.

To celebrate Women Entrepreneurship Week, The Center for Entrepreneurship is hosting Julian Guthrie, founder of Alphy. Learn about being a founder, raising money, and…

Ray Calabro FAIA MRAIC, a principal in the Seattle studio of the nationally-recognized architecture firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. Ray & Kyle will present a selection of new work ranging from a multi-disciplinary academic maker space at Carnegie Mellon University to a small cabin in British Columbia.

Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World, which received, respectively, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award.

Film by François Ozon.

The Evergreen State has been a leader in aerospace manufacturing for over a century and in recent years has also become home to two of the fastest growing segments in the industry, Space Exploration and Satellites.

The 2021-22 academic year offers numerous opportunities for the University to continue advancing its mission to serve the needs of the state of Washington and beyond.

Awards presentation 5:30 p.m. in the Science Forum, room 305.

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Continuing with Oktubafest, this year’s guest artist is Jeremy Crawford (Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at the University of Alabama). He will play an eclectic recital of music from his recent albums and newly composed tuba music. Crawford will be joined by Karen Nguyen on piano.

The adaptive immune system consists of highly diverse B and T cells whose unique surface receptors enables them to mount specific responses against a multitude of pathogens.

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Performing Yamaha Artist, Jennifer Cavanaugh (University of Montana), will perform a program of recent music for oboe and English horn. WSU professors Keri McCarthy (oboe) and Yuna Roh (piano) assist with charming works by Thea Musgrave and Alyssa Morris. Solo repertoire for oboe and English horn include works…

The WSU Center for Entrepreneurship invites you to hear from industry experts during our Fall Lunch and Learn Speaker series! Meet Matt Mosman, Managing Partner at Pelion Ventures.

The WSU Center for Entrepreneurship invites you to hear from industry experts during our Fall Lunch and Learn Speaker series! Meet Matt Mosman, Managing Partner at Pelion Ventures. The program begins at 12:00 pm, with free lunch and, time for questions.

Bimetallic metal nanoparticles are of broad interest due to their unique optical and catalytic properties which provide hybrid characteristics in comparison to monometallic counterparts.

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Christopher Wilson will present an evening of exciting music for marimba, including the world premiere of a piece by Professor Emeritus David Jarvis as well as other works by Keiko Abe, Eric Sammut, and WSU alumnus Zachery Meier. The recital will feature Professor of Bassoon Jacqueline Wilson.

Washington State University will celebrate the grand opening of the Trimble Technology Lab in the School of Design and Construction, part of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture on WSU’s Pullman campus.

BE A MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY!

The Washington State University School of Music would like to invite prospective students and their parents/guardians to its Fall 2021 MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY open house. Join us in experiencing a day in the life of a WSU music student. This event…

Come enjoy this fantastic new exhibition titled “Out in Front: Landscape Leading,” an exhibition featuring projects, interventions, or proposals in which the work of landscape architects plays a prime role in shaping the built environment.

School of Biological Sciences seminar: Dr. Richard Gill, Brigham Young U, “Niche Opportunity and Community Assembly in Ecological and Evolutionary Settings”

Cybersecurity experimental publications should provide readers with a reliable report of the experimental methods, dataset(s) used and full analysis of the results to allow the readers to fully understand the capabilities and limitations of the experiment, and to compare the results to other similar tools or processes.

Spectroscopy is a powerful tool for interrogating the matter, but decoding the message delivered by the spectra is far from trivial. How do we convert the spectra into what the nuclei and electrons are doing?

Join us in attending this years Grad Fair to learn more about the next steps toward graduation, tips for students, and answering any lingering questions you may have.

Advanced Grid Institute and Energy Systems Innovation Center present GridSandbox: Automated Workflow Management for End-to-End Grid Analytics by Dr. Anurag Srivastava, WVU, Dr. Henry Huang, PNNL, Dr. Dexin Wang, PNNL, and Mr. Sanjeev Pannala, Energy Systems Innovation Center/WSU

The 2021-22 academic year offers numerous opportunities for the University to continue advancing its mission to serve the needs of the state of Washington and beyond.

Session 4: Engaging Your Audience and Evaluating Success. Social your media: how to enlist, engage, and activate your audience.

Film by Jean-Paul Salomé with Isabelle Huppert

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The WSU Percussion Ensemble is back to in-person performance! Please join us for an evening of varied music for drums, keyboards, and even metal pipes! The program will include works by Anthony Cirone, Carlos Chávez, David Gillingham and more! WSU Professor of Flute, Dr. Sophia Tegart, will perform…

Why do you want to go to graduate school?

Guest lecturer and clinician Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer will present a guest lecture geared toward future music educators of all disciplines: instrumental, general, and choral. All music students and faculty are welcome to join for her engaging presentation.

Dr. Brinckmeyer is Professor of Music, Associate Dean and Director of Choral Music…

In this talk, I will present some recent and ongoing work at the UW Ion Trap group. Our main focus is on quantum computing and quantum simulations. T

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To close this fall’s Oktubafest at WSU, members of the tuba-euphonium studio will perform a variety of solos, duets, and other chamber music. The concert will close with the WSU Tuba Choir performing Soundings by Steve Matchett and Innovation by Akira Toda.

Compared to d-block transition metal alkyl and aryl complexes, U-alkyl and U-aryls have received significantly less attention and study.

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Amber Vosk is a senior music education major who specializes in trumpet. This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the degree requirements for the bachelor’s in music education degree. She is excited to share with you a variety of solo works that have been compiled across her…

The 6th Annual WSU Marching Band Championships will be at Gesa Field all day on October 30th. 15 of the best high school marching bands from Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana will compete.

This will be a hybrid CE event — join us in-person on campus or online via zoom.

Ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night? We sure do love to scare ourselves.