Events

Faculty, staff and students throughout the WSU system are invited to participate in a series of events this week in celebration of National First-Generation Day on Nov. 8.

President Kirk Schulz and First Lady Noel Schulz welcome the WSU community to visit their home for some holiday cheer.

Guest artists for the Gala Concert are WSU’s newest jazz studies faculty members, pianist Jake Svendsen and guitarist Gabe Condon. Also featured will be the award-winning WSU Jazz Big Band.

The new Three Rivers Writers’ Festival on Saturday, Nov. 2 will feature seminars and workshops by established local and regional authors, publishers and editors and WSU English and history faculty members.

Conference participants across the WSU system will discuss the direction of the university’s statewide enterprise for the next five years.

The effects of Indian boarding schools on one family’s history is the subject of a new exhibit in WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections that opens Friday, Oct. 25.

WSU faculty, staff, and students not affiliated with an academic college are invited to join President Kirk Schulz for a town hall on Oct. 23 in Pullman.

Bruce Napier will discuss his work regarding the Mayak plutonium production site in Russia, which has many similarities to the Hanford Site in Richland, as part of a lecture at 5 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the WSU Tri-Cities East Auditorium.

An architecture class at WSU will present their ideas for a small luxury hotel to upgrade Pullman’s downtown during an upcoming Town and Gown Collaborative meeting.

Stanford University Professor Dmitri Petrov’s talk, Barcoding Evolution, will take place on Monday, Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. in the Veterinary and Biomedical Research Building, room 305.

The summit provides IT professionals across the WSU system an opportunity to come together to discuss information security trends and topics important to continued security efforts.

Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to register by the end of the week for the Oct. 28 system‑wide visioning conference that will focus on the direction of the university’s statewide enterprise for the next five years.

Yogendra Gupta, Regents professor of physics and director of the Institute for Shock Physics, will present an historical overview of the Institute’s significant scientific activity and achievements.

WSU will celebrate the public launch of the Center for Arts and Humanities with two workshops and a reception on Oct. 24. 

Fair attendees will have the opportunity to learn about sleep, healthy eating, staying safe online and much more. This year’s event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in and around the CUB in Pullman.

WSU is commemorating its second annual Indigenous People’s Day on Oct. 14 with cultural festivities including traditional dance and the set up of a tipi by Native American Programs on the Pullman campus.