WSU Digest – for the week of Oct. 6 On the Calendar

More than 170 employers are expected on the Palouse Oct. 7 as they vie for students of all majors from Washington State University and the University of Idaho at the Career Expo of the Palouse. Career Expo will be from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.  No registration is required. This once-a-semester career fair provides a forum for students to network and locate internships, career positions, and graduate studies opportunities with exhibitors representing every economic sector. For more details, see https://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=4063

Award-winning poet, author, screenwriter and film director Sherman Alexie will receive Washington State University’s highest honor for alumni during activities on Friday, Oct. 10. The Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award presentation will be at 12:10 p.m. in Bryan Hall Auditorium on the Pullman campus. Following the award presentation, Alexie will read from his latest book, “Ten Little Indians.” The event is free and open to the public. The program will be videostreamed live. For more information, check https://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=4114 

In the news

The crush is on: As the $2.4 billion Washington state wine industry harvests this year’s grape crop, Washington State University continues its efforts to grow its teaching, research and extension program in viticulture and enology into a premier national program. The program features $1 million in new funding, five new faculty positions and appointment of a director whose duties will cut across most departments in the College of Agriculture and Home Economics. The director Raymond Folwell can talk about today’s Washington wine industry and what WSU is doing to support it. Folwell will be available Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week and next at folwell@wsu.edu or 519.335.5556.