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.
Lecture
March 2025
Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Webinar “Abortion Pills and the Pharmaceutical Geographies of Autonomous Health” Dr. Sydney Calkin
“How and why do we benefit from dogs? Emerging science on the human-dog relationship,” presented by Kerri Rodriguez, MS, PhD, Assistant Professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Join the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) in recognition and celebration of National Farmworker Awareness Week. Teresa Romero, President of United Farm Workers, will be providing the keynote address on Wednesday, March 26 at 6 p.m. in the CUB Auditorium. A reception will be held in the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art before the keynote from 4:30-5:30 p.m.; refreshments will be provided. The keynote is sponsored by CAMP, High School Equivalency Program, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, ChiLaStAl, Ballet Folklórico, and Mariachi Leones del Monte.
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.
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.