Academic Subjects

Architecture has often been described through its part-to-whole relationships, particularly within the Western tradition. The harmonic interplay of these relationships was historically understood as the source for beauty, justice, and truth. The value systems stemming from this ideology continue to underpin much of today’s architecture, albeit with adaptations over time. However, cities are shaped significantly by the unlikely adjacencies, intersections, and overlaps of objects vastly different in kind, origin, and scale. The lecture will introduce a series of design concepts and projects that seek to present an alternative view on the part-to-whole paradigm.

Presented by: Dr. Shahrzad Rahmani, Postdoctoral Researcher, WSU

 Abstract: The field of electrochemical applications has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, and the development of designed polymer nanocomposites has played a crucial role in driving these advancements. In this presentation, I will provide a brief overview of the…

Health Equity Circle is hosting “Advocacy 101” with the Washiongton Physicians for Social Responsibility (WPSR). Staff and experienced volunteer advocates from WPSR will share how health professionals have successfully advocated for policies in the past and they will teach various advocacy skills. This event is open to students and community members!

WSU Horn Studio

Martin King, director

Featuring the WSU Trombone Choir and solos by members of the WSU Horn Studio.

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are polymeric porous materials consisting of metal nodes and organic ligands that extend to form periodic crystal structures. They have ultrahigh porosity (up to 90% free volume) and enormous internal surface areas (extending beyond 6000 m2/g). These properties, together with the extraordinary degree of tunability for both the metal centers and the organic ligands, make MOFs of great interest for broad applications in gas storage, high-capacity adsorbents, membranes, thin-film devices, catalysis, and biomedical imaging [1]. However, the “ideal crystals” limit the pore sizes, the exposure of catalytic sites, the diffusion and accessibility of large molecules. ​​​Defect engineering introduce missing linker and missing node defects into MOFs is an exciting concept for tailoring material properties, which opens up great opportunities not only in sorption and catalysis, but also in controlling challenging physical characteristics such as band gap, magnetic and electrical/conductive properties [2]. In this talk, I will demonstrate MOFs and defect-engineering in Zr-MOFs with typical defect-creating methods.

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The annual Family Weekend Vocal Extravaganza Concert will take place on Friday, November 3, 2023, at 7:30pm in Bryan Hall Theatre. Featuring all five of WSU’s vocal ensembles, the evening will include a wide variety of music from different styles and time periods. Opera Workshop will present a…

The 18th Annual Pumpkin Drop will be held on November 4th at Webster Physical Science building. We will be dropping decorated pumpkins from the 12th floor of Webster in honor of Family Weekend and as a nod to Galileo’s gravitational experiments. There will be various stations for pumpkin decorations, physics demos, scavenger hunts, and concessions in the Webster lobby. The pumpkin drop is scheduled to take place from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Organometallic catalysis requires both the catalyst and solvent, with the catalyst consisting of two components: the metal and the ligand. Recycling the metal is easier than the ligand, which is expensive and slowly breaks down during catalysis, leading to the catalyst’s death. Therefore, ligand-free catalysis is highly desirable. However, the challenge with ligand-free catalysis is that it results in the agglomeration of metal and the lack of optimal steric and electronic properties at the metal center, which can lead to easier oxidation of the lower oxidation state of metal. To address this issue, we developed a ligand-free nano-heterogeneous catalysis that is both stereoretentive and stereoselective.

This two-hour summit provides time for all WSU community members to learn more about what it means to be a student-ready campus. Rather than focusing primarily on whether students are college-ready, institutions are becoming student-ready by changing policies, processes, and practices to better serve students and reduce barriers to success.

At the heart of the transition to a zero-carbon power system is a technological paradigm shift from conventional generation to renewable generation connected to the grid via power electronics. In this context, the literature and public debate mostly focus on the variability and intermittency of renewable generation and loss of machine inertia. At the same time, the rapid and massive integration of power electronics and renewables results in significantly different power system dynamics and challenges standard operating, control, and analysis paradigms. This talk will focus on a universal grid-forming control paradigm that is compatible with a wide range of emerging and legacy power generation, conversion, and transmission technologies and enables rigorous end-to-end stability analysis of tomorrow’s complex power system dynamics. The talk will conclude with a brief discussion of challenges in control and stability analysis that need to be resolved to enable reliable and resilient zero-carbon power systems.

PRESENTERS: Drs. Jessica Bunch, Marcie Logsdon, & Leslie Sprunger

The delivery of small molecule drugs across the blood brain barrier (BBB) is difficult, making the development of therapies for neurological diseases very challenging. Efforts have persistently been underway to develop novel nanocarriers which are capable of precisely transporting drugs across the BBB to target the specific regions of brain damage. Even if drugs or nanoparticles get across the impaired BBB following brain injury or neuroinflammation, their synergistic uptake into the critical brain cells such as neurons and activated microglia/macrophages involved in brain diseases remains challenging.

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WSU Spokane faculty and staff are invited to attend a campus town hall gathering on Wednesday, November 8, from 12:00 – 1:00 PM in SAC 147. Hear from Executive Vice President and Chancellor Daryll DeWald, who will share updates on campus initiatives, provide insights on current objectives, and discuss growth opportunities. Participants are encouraged to submit their questions in advance.

Presenter: Margaret Reece
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Chair: Xiaofeng Guo
Title: Thermodynamics of Critical Rare Earth Minerals

Let us dive into Future Home of the Living God by Loise Erdrich to celebrate Native American Heritage Month.
Registration begins on 29 September 2023. The first ten (10) students to register by 15 October 2023 will receive a Kindle or paperback copy of the book.
If you miss the freebie window, you are still welcome to join and listen or participate on the discussion.
You must be an S & A fee-paying Global Campus student and agree to attend the meeting.

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The WSU System’s fourth annual Veterans and Military Affiliated Students (VMAS) Symposium will be held on November 9th on WSU’s Vancouver Campus. The purpose of the event is to strengthen WSU’s military-affiliated student community by elevating student voices, showcasing new resources and achievements for WSU’s military-affiliated students, and uncovering new needs, possibilities, and aspirations as this community looks to the future. This year’s theme is “The Way Forward.”

Over the last decade, nanotechnology has demonstrated great potential in contributing to durable and environmentally friendly concrete. This talk starts from a patented technology in which the value of coal fly ash was unlocked using a novel nano-sized material, graphene oxide (GO). This technology hinges on the use of GO in the waterglass activated fly ash to produce a “greener” cementitious binder, geopolymer.

Our group has developed mathematical models to define variable SARS-CoV-2 shedding kinetics observed in the general population. We leveraged this model to accurately simulate clinical trials. Our models help identify why nirmatrelvir / ritonavir was extremely effective as an early therapy but failed a post exposure prophylaxis, and why viral rebound is common on this drug. We also explore mechanisms for nirmatrelvir / ritonavir’s superiority relative to molnupiravir.

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Title: Investigating the Formation and Reactivity of ZrII, HfII, and AnII Species Supported by Metal-Arene Interactions

Join us in person or online via Zoom beginning at 9 AM for this hybrid 3-hour CE event. This is a non-football weekend to make parking easier. There will be a large and small animal track, with light and fun, case-based presentations. We encourage veterinarians, technicians, and assistants to attend.

Presenter: Prof. Skye Fortier, University of Texas El Paso

Host: Liane M. Moreau

Title: Molecules to Materials: Examining the Properties of Early Metal and Actinide Complexes

In this talk, I will discuss new research directions along this goal, ranging from basic public-key encryption (PKE) to advanced fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and substantial applications. Particularly, I will present the crypto basics following NIST’s current efforts in standardizing post-quantum PKE. Then I will describe how to expand the scope to achieve and improve further advanced crypto capabilities, including fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and a compelling subset of its applications.

Ubiquitous sensors are becoming an integral part of Internet of Things (IoT) applications, and progress in this domain has witnessed exponential growth. The promise is that everyone and everything will be connected via wireless data collection, and services like healthcare will be brought to everyone, everywhere, anytime, for virtually any need.

Motivated by climate change and its recognized impact on the infrastructure, environment and human health, the Biden Administration has set an ambitious goal of getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Getting to net-zero emissions is a game changer for our society and has impacts on the long-term planning for all sectors of the economy. Bulk power grid decarbonization and electrification of transport have been identified as first priorities to meet those goals.

Speaker: Ryanne Ballard
Group: Prof. Berkman
Title: Traceless Phosphoryl Mediated Isopeptide Crosslinking

Presenter: Prof. Robert Polly, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut fuer Nukleare Entsorgung
Host: Xiaofeng Guo
Title: Relativistic Multiconfigurational ab initio Calculations of X-ray Spectra of Heavy Radio Nuclides

Hear from panelists who used their voices to tell the tragic story of a 21-year-old track star, Lauren McCluskey who was murdered on the University of Utah campus five years ago. Join us for a candid discussion on how the power of communication can be a catalyst for positive social change and reform. Her story brought awareness to the pressing issues surrounding dating violence and stalking on University and College campuses today.

Title: AN ANALYSIS OF CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Presenter: James Crabb, Master of Science in Computer Science, Thesis Final Examination
Chair: Assefaw Gebremedhin

Meet fellow Global Cougs and hang out at the end for some exciting discussions about the movie.
Let’s delve together in this 39-minute documentary, showcasing the history, culture, and how the largest tribe came to be. The Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States (out of 567 tribes). The tribe currently has over 300,000 members.

This presentation will look at the architecture of Latin America and its entangled relationship to an architectural material: concrete. From material performance to aesthetic appeal, concrete permeates the urban landscape and the domestic space.
Florencia Pita is the principal of the Los Angeles-based design office Florencia Pita & Co., a creative platform dedicated to exploring architecture’s multiple capacities, from the domestic, the urban, and the landscape.

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Eugenia Reznik: Between the Fabric and the Plant
How does a piece of old cloth connect people to their homeland? Does the answer lie in the plant this fabric used to be? Visual artist Eugenia Reznik creates installation works that question the link between displaced people and plants. In November and December 2023, she will join WSU for a residency with the objective of exploring the threshold between the linen fabric and the flax plant. The artist will collaborate with WSU artists and scientists Andrei Smertenko, Laura Bartley, Squeak Meisel, Reza Safavi, Michael Knoblauk, John Haddish and Elizabeth Nazarov. The residency was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Opera Workshop will be presenting their program Masquerades and Mayhem, including scenes from La Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossin, Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss, and L’Elisir d’Amore by Gaetano Donizetti.  The ensemble is directed by Dr. Julie Anne Wieck and supported by collaborative pianist, Elena Panchenko.

Speaker: Vincent Groner
Group: Prof. Boncella
Title: Stabilizing Low-Valent Organometallic Uranium Complexes Using Bulky, Aromatic Terphenyl Amido Ligands

Our Fall BFA and BAFA Exhibitions open November 27th and will be on view through December 10th in the Fine Arts Center’s Gallery III. Seniors Hollis Knight and Casey Wales have their work on display.

This presentation will provide an overview of the cause of microarchitectural side-channel vulnerability and will examine a few examples and how to take advantage of them. We will conclude by exploring potential strategies to mitigate such vulnerabilities and generally ensure hardware security

Understanding how f-elements and transition metals interact/communicate are critical for pioneering new catalysts and could shed light on unusual biological interactions. Our group focuses on the synthesis and characterization of complexes that contain both f-elements and transition metals, with the intent of studying electronic structure and reactivity.

Chemical reactions lie at the heart of processes designed to meet our growing energy and material needs. The first step towards designing and optimizing chemical reactions involves identification of underlying mechanisms and quantification of rates. Quantum chemistry methods along with theories such as transition state theory (TST) are indispensable for this purpose and have played a pivotal role in elucidating mechanisms in recent decades.

Guitar Studio Concert

Performances of WSU guitar students and faculty. Solo and ensemble works in a wide range of styles!

Class Guitar I

Class Guitar II

Guitar Performance Workshop

WSU Guitar Ensemble

Featuring special guests Doc. D. on percussion and Dr. Aaron Hill on sax!

The concert by Portland Opera Young Artists will be at Pullman High School is titled “An Evening of Passion, No Regrets in the Morning.”

This event is free and open to the public!

This event is sponsored by WSU’s David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities, Pullman High School…

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Access to OUD/SUD and associated supportive services can be challenging and often problematic due to stigma associated with existing practice. Community pharmacies represent an untapped resource to expand entry points, decrease delays in treatment, enhance collaboration among providers and increase support for patients.