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Join us October 2 for Lessons from the Wild Side: Learning to Lead from the Center, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Ensminger Pavilion on the WSU Pullman campus.
Lessons from the Wild Side explores four personality types in a playful, supportive and lighthearted way, inspired by our friends in the animal kingdom. Join us for this one-day workshop to find out what the furred and feathered ones can teach us about our own human behavioral tendencies. (more…)
Are you thinking about retiring? Human Resource Services (HRS) will be conducting pre-retirement seminars to assist you with retirement planning. Topics include: (more…)
If you are a WSURP Participant, with your retirement accounts with TIAA-CREF, are you thinking about retirement? Are you in the middle of your career, and wonder if you should be adjusting your benefits or retirement investments or contributions? Human Resource Services (HRS) will be conducting the following sessions to assist you with benefit and retirement planning. Each session will begin with a benefits discussion presented by HRS Benefits Staff to be followed by a financial education portion presented by representatives from TIAA-CREF. (more…)
Sponsored by the Center for Reproductive Biology
Washington State University and the University of Idaho
Dr. Joshua Johnson
Yale School of Medicine
“Crime Scene Ovary: Forensic Evaluation of the Mammalian Ovarian Follicle” (more…)
The Carson College of Business will offer “Finance Professional Night” Monday, Sept. 21, at 5 p.m. in Todd 216, Pullman Campus. The event is free and open to the public. Panelists include Linda Elkin – commercial banking; Joey Nestegard – corporate finance; Jim Oster – commercial banking; Tom Nihoul – investment management; Kelsey Schreck – private equity/hedge funds; Mark Wuscher – international banking. Following the presentation, students will have a chance to network with the panelists from 6:30 – 7:15 p.m. in the Todd Atrium located on the first floor of the Carson College. The event is hosted by the Department of Finance and Management Science.
We have seats available on our Lewiston/Clarkston van. Our schedule is 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. year round. The average monthly rate is $70. – $80. We also pick up in Uniontown/Colton.
For more information contact Tanya Gonzales tanya_gonzales@wsu.edu
Please join us as Leo Fifield will present: “Research on the State of Electrical Cable Materials in Nuclear Power Plants” in ETRL 101 at 12:10 on Friday, Sept. 18.
Dr. Fifield works as the Manager for the Nuclear Cable Aging Program and is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. (more…)
Fulbright scholars and students are invited to attend a Fall Welcome Reception for the Fulbright Academy, Sept. 24 at noon in CUE 518.
Ambassador Asif Chaudhry, Vice President for International Programs, and Dr. Christopher Keane, Vice President for Research, will each speak during the reception.
Dr. Andrew Storfer, a professor and associate director of graduate programs for WSU’s School of Biological Sciences, will reflect on his Fulbright experience.
The Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering department at Washington State University is pleased to invite you to our upcoming seminar Monday, September 21, at 12:10 p.m. in Todd 311. (more…)
To succeed and lead in the global economy, WSU needs citizens, employees, community leaders, and entrepreneurs who think and act as sophisticated global citizens. To celebrate, U.N. International Day of Peace, Ambassador Chaudhry will discuss topics of global importance and connect them to our responsibility as Cougars across the world in his speech, entitled Global Peace and Personal Responsibility.
Ambassador Chaudhry is the Vice President for the Office of International Programs at WSU. He will speak at 5:15 p.m., Monday, Sept. 21, in the CUB Auditorium.
International Development Club will host basket sales on Saturday, Sept. 19. You can find our tables at CUB student recreation lounge from 2 to 4 p.m.
International Development Club is partnered with a co-op of women in Rwanda called Covaga. These baskets are a hundred-percent beautifully handmade products. We purchase baskets from the women and bring them to Washington to sell on our campus. Benefits earned from sale will help funding local women in Rwanda.
The WSU First-Year Experience Program offers this professional development opportunity to faculty and staff who work with first-year students: (more…)
The WSU First-Year Experience Program offers this professional development opportunity to faculty and staff who work with first-year students: (more…)
At the Faculty Senate meeting on April 16, the senate approved a new grade type which is required to support the federal reporting needs for financial aid and for Veterans benefits. This new grade type – the Z grade – is to be used only for students who discontinue their participation in a course and only for final grades.
The Z grade enables the instructor to enter the last day of attendance into the final grade roster. When official grade posts the Z grade is converted to an F grade. Only the F grade will display on the WSU official transcript.
With the Angel learning management system going off-line in December, course spaces must be moved to WSU’s new system, Blackboard Learn. To assist, Academic Outreach and Innovation is offering a series of workshops. Faculty can attend in person at WSU Pullman, or in videoconference rooms at the other campuses. The next topics are: (more…)
Visit WSU’s Technology Test Kitchen for a quick workshop on Panopto, and to explore other educational technologies. No registration is required; just drop by Holland 150. Upcoming sessions are: (more…)
The music of the spheres comes to the planetarium! The fall season opens with the lively thrilling melancholy soulful dancing soaring variegated tones of the Harmonia Strings, along with the cosmic beauty of a star theatre tour of Milky Way and solar system sights. Friday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m.
$5 admission, cash or check at the door of the Planetarium, 231 Sloan Hall on campus.
ADVANCE at WSU announces two requests for applications for Fall semester 2015. Both of these programs are open to all tenure track faculty women in STEM disciplines and all under-represented minority, tenure-track faculty in any discipline (any rank). The External Mentor grant program and a new program, the Leadership grant program. Deadline to apply is October 16, 2015. For more information and the RFPs and applications for these, please visit https://advance.wsu.edu/grantopportunitiesprograms/.