Events

The 40,000‑square‑foot building will house a suite of teaching laboratories, classrooms, collaborative meeting spaces, study spaces and a grand staircase with open seating for lectures and presentations.

WSU’s inaugural Student Veterans Symposium, scheduled for March 5 on the Tri‑Cities campus, will examine the unique needs of veterans and develop an action plan to help foster their success.

ASWSU will host its 16th annual Multicultural Fundraiser on March 11 for three conferences designed to encourage students from underrepresented populations to attend college.

Dreamer, UI Law School graduate, and Seattle immigration attorney Luis Cortes Romero will present “This Case is My Story: The Supreme Court Argument to Preserve DACA” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 2 in Pullman.

Tim Mulligan, chief human resources officer of late Paul Allen’s Seattle-based holding company Vulcan Inc., will be the keynote speaker for the Washington State University Tri-Cities Carson College of Business Point to Success Fundraising Brunch on March 7.

Jazz, opera, orchestra and choir—like a four‑course feast for the ears, the musical showcase by WSU students and faculty on March 3 at the Fox Theatre in Spokane will serve up an array of aural treats.

Registration is now open for the National Center for Biotechnology Information’s Functional Genomics Workshop.

Los Angeles-based artist Arshia Fatima Haq will deliver the 2020 Jo Hockenhull Distinguished Visiting Lecture in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, at WSU Pullman.

WSU’s semi-annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summit will explore equity in scholarship, places and all the spaces between.

WSU physics professor Philip Marston will present a free, public talk, “Decades of Acoustical, Optical, and Fluid Wave Physics with Students and Associates,” at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, on the Pullman campus.

WSU Tri-Cities will welcome James Conca, senior scientist for UFA Ventures, Inc., who will discuss the current state and future of the nuclear waste disposal program in the United States as part of a Feb. 28 joint engineering and science lecture series.

Join President Schulz March 24 as he discusses the draft of the 2020–2025 WSU system strategic plan and shares system‑wide accomplishments from the past year that demonstrate how the university already is advancing the plan’s four goals.

The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication will honor Janie McCauley and Mark Wright as the 2020 Hall of Achievement Award recipients at the Murrow Symposium on March 23 at Washington State University’s Pullman campus.

Entries will be accepted through March 29. Visit the library guide website to register and for more information. Participants can register individually or as a group. Entry rules are simple: Submissions must be made from edible materials and somehow relate to a book.

Latinx feminist mental health activist Dior Vargas will bring a message of hope and encouragement to what she calls the ‘invisible’ populations during her first‑ever trip to the Palouse region.

Award-winning poet Jericho Brown will visit Pullman on Feb. 27 as a guest of the WSU Visiting Writer Series. Brown is an associate professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.