Notices and Announcements

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Honoring and remembering those who served.

The Student Veterans Committee will be conducting a Veterans Day Ceremony in the CUB Auditorium on Nov. 11 at 10 a.m. (more…)

Washington State University’s Pullman campus will play host to the bioplastics industry Nov. 16-18.

Members of Iowa State University (ISU), Washington State University, the Ford Motor Company, USDA, Boeing, and 3M, as well as many others, will meet to discuss new projects in the development of biologically based plastics from renewable resources for the Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2). (more…)

November 13, in CUB L46 from 3 – 4 p.m., come learn about the international student athletes on WSU’s Women’s Basketball team and sample food from their home countries.

The Department of Chemistry invites you to its departmental seminar today at 4:10 p.m. in Fulmer Hall, room 201.

Dr. Evan DeLucia from the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will present, The Changing American Landscape and its Connection to Climate. (more…)

Did you know that mental illness among college students is on the rise at Washington State University and across the country? Have you ever wondered what you can do to help students who suffer from mental illness? Health & Wellness Services is offering Mental Health First Aid training to help you recognize symptoms and assist someone experiencing a mental health crisis. The training will teach you how to look for warning signs on a range of issues including depression, anxiety/trauma, psychosis, substance use disorders, and self-injury. For more information and the dates we are offering trainings this fall, visit our website.

To get the most out of Blackboard Learn, attend a workshop presented by WSU Academic Outreach and Innovation. This week, AOI is offering two sessions; each is online: (more…)

There will be two  information sessions about the two- week  “Ireland 2016” faculty-led class offered  May, 2016  by Professor Matt Carroll of the School of the Environment. (more…)

Steve Fredrickson, Facilities Operations, has been approved for shared leave.

Those interested in donating leave can contact Human Resource Services, 335-4521, or send in a shared-leave donation form to zip 1014, French 139.  WSU Policies & Procedures Manual Section 60.68 has information about Shared Leave and forms that can be copied for use.

Questions about the procedures to donate leave to any approved individual can be directed to Sally Wickizer (wickizer@wsu.edu) or Candy Hachmann (Candice.hachmann@wsu.edu) at Human Resource Sevices.

If your office will be closed because of a holiday, meeting, or the personnel being absent, please let University Communications Mailing Services know before 8:30 a.m. Mailing Services will gladly hold your mail or re-route it to another location.

For more information contact University Communications at 335-2365, email joyr@wsu.edu, srigby@wsu.edu or visit ucomm.wsu.edu/mailing.

Trans* Ally Training provides participants with the opportunity to join a support network for those who identify outside the gender binary. In this session you will learn about the specific challenges facing Trans* individuals and gain skills to help you in being a supportive ally. Please register at http://hrs.wsu.edu/skillsoft/default.aspx?c=ilt_wsu_EQD_997

Nov. 16:  9 – 11 a.m. in CUB 406

Heidi Stanton Schnebly 509-335-8841

This BPPM revision includes changes to the following sections:

    Expenditure Transfers Between Funding Sources 30.25

    Buying Through Purchasing Services 70.13

    Retention of Electronic Communications 90.03

For a summary of the changes and link to the updated sections, see the BPPM Revision 460 memorandum at:

http://public.wsu.edu/~forms/HTML/Revision_Memos/RevisionMemo460.htm

Contact:  Office of Procedures, Records, and Forms; telephone 335-2005

The Department of Physics and Astronomy and the SPIE student chapter invites all to a colloquium featuring Dr. Marija Strojnik Scholl of the Optical Research Center, Infrared Group, Leon, Gto., Mexico. Dr. Scholl will present her talk, “Vision System for Bi-Spectral Simultaneous Monitoring of Dynamic Phenomena at 2000 fps in Infrared”, Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 4:10 pm in Webster B17.

Meet for refreshments before the lecture at 3:45 – 4:10 p.m. in the foyer on floor G above the lecture hall. (more…)

WSU Fulbright Academy will hold a seminar Nov. 12 at noon, in CUE 518.

Dr. Matthew Sutton is an associate professor of history at WSU. He teaches 20th century United States history, cultural history, and religious history. (more…)

The School of Biological Sciences at Washington State University is pleased to invite you to our upcoming SBS seminar.

Richard Gomulkiewicz, Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State presents  “Of bamboo, mice, and men

Monday, November 9, at 4:10 p.m. in Abelson 201.

Come and share your ideas with the community on how we can reimagine the St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax, Wash.

You can participate in our workshop on November 10 from 3 to 6 p.m. at The Center, 110 S Main, Colfax, Wash. next to the Whitman County Library. You can also participate through our survey on our Facebook page, (more…)

Human Resources Services in collaboration with the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) will host a webinar on Thursday, November 12, from 10-11:30 a.m. on Four Challenges in Higher Ed Hiring…and How to Beat Them! (more…)

Washington State has legalized both recreational and medical marijuana. What are the public health implications? The Foley Institute will hold its next Coffee & Politics event on this topic Thursday, November 12, from noon – 1 p.m. (more…)

The next four WSU Technology Test Kitchen workshops are all about Lightboard, a glass surface that lets you create media of yourself writing or projecting graphics while facing your audience. (Here’s a one-minute video.) (more…)

The School of Economic Sciences would like to invite you to a seminar today at 3:10 p.m. in Hulbert 27. The talk titled “Winery Location and Agglomeration in Washington State: An Application of Zipf’s Law” will be presented by Dr. Jon Miller, Professor of Economics, College of Business and Economics, University of Idaho.

More than a dozen Washington State University students have been selected to present their faculty-mentored research through posters and oral presentations at the 15th Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) Nov. 11-14 in Seattle. (more…)