January 2025
ASWSUG Book Club: Cougs Get Lit-erary!
Wednesday, January 8th at 5:00 – 6:00 PM PT
Escape the academic grind, engage in thought-provoking discussion, and earn credit towards your EmpowerALL certification by joining our student-led book club. We will meet on Wednesday, January 8th from 5:00-6:00 PM to discuss January’s book…
Visiting Artist Mary Welcome’s work will be on display in the Fine Art Center’s Gallery 2 from January 9-February 14, with an artist lecture at 3:30 on Thursday, January 9th. Lecture will take place in Gallery 2, with a reception to follow.
Visiting Artist Mary Welcome’s work will be on display in the Fine Art Center’s Gallery 2 from January 9-February 14, with an artist talk at 3:30 on Thursday, January 9th.
Artist Talk will take place in Gallery 2, with a reception to follow.
Advancing the Sustainability of Thermosets: Recycling and Redesign
Presented by Dr. Baoming Zhao, Staff Scientist, Composite Materials and Engineering Center, WSU
Abstract:
Plastics play a vital role in our daily lives; however, their widespread use raises concerns about their environmental impact. While substantial progress has been made in recycling…
Calling all mixed animal practitioners for a one-day conference (6 CE credit hours) with topics including backyard poultry, small ruminant Johne’s disease, honeybee management, small ruminant parasites, and beef cattle topics.
This community-wide event provides time to remember, grieve, and celebrate the difference companions make in our lives.
Professor Franklin Leach, from University of Georgia, to discuss Enabling Technologies and Approaches to Democratize Access to High Performance Mass Spectrometry.
Your Collection: Faculty Remix Exhibition
Explore the fascinating world of glass with Dr. Hallie Meredith during a Community Perspectives Tour on Thursday, January 16, 2025, from 4:00–5:00pm.
Join the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU and WSU Department of Art faculty on Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 5:00–7:00pm to celebrate the opening of “Your Collection: Faculty Remix”. For this exhibition, in continuing recognition of our 50th anniversary year, studio art faculty have been invited to collaborate by responding to works from the museum’s permanent collection.
On January 21 at 1:45 pm, as part of the National Day of Racial Healing 2025, the museum and WSU’s English Department will host a reading and open mic program in response to the theme of the day, “Keep on Pushing: Building Bridges to Sustainability.” Readers will include WSU Campus Civic Poets & finalists, creative writing students and faculty, and student editors of WSU creative writing publications. All students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to bring a poem to read during the open mic portion. Poems may be original compositions or selected from the work of another author, though they should engage with the themes of the day. Before and after the program, visitors are encouraged to view current museum exhibitions, including “The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” and “Your Collection: Faculty Remix”.
“Teaching Philosophy Statements: Bridging Theory and Practice,” presented by Dr. Erika Offerdahl.
The Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections at WSU Libraries is holding an opening reception for an exhibit called “Against the Grain: Countercultural Eating on the Palouse, 1916-2024.” The description of the exhibit is as follows: In 1989, Pullman, Washington, was named the Lentil Capital of the World. The reason was simple: the Palouse region produced 98 percent of the lentils grown in the United States. Most were shipped to customers in Europe, Africa, and Asia, where they had been enjoyed for hundreds and even thousands of years. Lentils have deep roots in cultures worldwide, but how did they arrive in the Palouse? To answer that question, one must consider countercultural communities in the United States—vegetarians, vegans, back-to-earthers, environmentalists, activists, and pacifists who chose a diet that lay outside of the norm.
Join Engineering and Technology Management (ETM) faculty and staff for a deeper dive into how pursuing a master’s degree or graduate certificate can enhance your skills and advance your career in engineering and technology management. In this virtual information session, we’ll cover course curriculum and delivery, new changes to the master’s degree core requirements, the admissions process, certificate options, and more.
PROGRAM
A program presented by Yakama bassoonist Jacqueline Wilson featuring works for the bassoon by living Native American composers Connor Chee (Navajo), Charles Shadle (Choctaw), Michael Begay (Navajo), Trevor Reed (Hopi), and Joy Zickau (Seminole).
Science Librarian, Emily Cukier, is presenting on how to use AI in research.
BE A MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY!
Monday, January 27th, 2025
The Washington State University School of Music would like to invite prospective students and their parents/guardians to its Spring 2025 MUSIC MAJOR FOR A DAY open house. Join us in experiencing a day in the life of a WSU…
On the 4th Monday of each month, the Engineering Education Research Center and Community Leadership Council will host a gathering to discuss a paper about engineering or architecture education research. Pizza and soda are provided. All faculty, staff, students, and postdocs are invited. The reading for Jan 27 is “The Wright State Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: Longitudinal Impact on Initially Underprepared Students”. We hope that everyone can read the paper prior to the event, but all are welcome even if they haven’t read it yet.
SPEAKER: Dr. Huiyun Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, WSU
We are thrilled to remind you about the upcoming Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival, taking place Tuesday, January 28 at the CUB Auditorium. Hosted by the ORC, this event is a unique opportunity to experience the many facets of mountain culture around the world through a series of captivating films.
The festival will feature a variety of short films for your enjoyment. Showcasing the breaktaking cinemeatography of adventure-based activities such as skiing, climbing, kayaking, base jumping, mountain biking, and more. They not only highlight the exciting nature of these sports but additionally shed light on the nuances of civilization and the areas less traveled.
Modern power systems face significant operational challenges due to the accelerated and much-needed deployment of decentralized renewable generation. Such deployment has increased power imbalances leading to increased reserve requirements in power transmission grids and is causing operational issues in power distribution grids associated with the delivered quality-of-service (especially concerning voltage quality) as well as lines and transformers congestions. A potential solution to tackle these challenges is to define efficient and scalable control frameworks in active distribution networks (ADNs) capable of: (i) satisfying the local ADNs’ constraints and (ii) aggregating heterogeneous resources at different timescales to provide ancillary services to the transmission network. This work proposes a control and scheduling framework that tracks a pre-defined power profile (dispatch plan) at the grid connection point (GCP) of an ADN while ensuring that the grid states (i.e., the nodal voltages and lines/transformer power/current flows) remain within the prescribed limits. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the algorithm by field experiments on real distribution systems installed with controllable energy storage systems and photovoltaic plants as well as fast EV charging stations.
Program:
Data-driven discovery of materials for sustainable energy generation
Presented by Dr. Bokinala Moses Abraham, Fulbright Kalam Climate Fellow, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
On Friday, January 31 from 12:00–1:00 PM, join Professor Kevin Haas for a Community Perspectives Tour at the museum with a printmaker’s perspective on select works in the current exhibitions, especially the series of screenprints by artist Ed Ruscha titled News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues. Haas will also offer an overview of printmaking and print publishing, and open discussion among tour participants will be encouraged.
Join IEEE for a resume and networking workshop to help prepare for the WSU Spring 2025 Career Expo.
Presented by Sandi Brabb, VCEA Director of Internships and Career Services.
Being a woman is complex, funny, and beautiful! Join me as we adventure through the world of female composers, songs about famous women, and the many facets of womanhood.