WSU Digest – for the week of April 12 On the Calendar

John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group Inc. and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will visit Washington State University on Tuesday (April 13) to present the 2004 Gary P. Brinson Distinguished Lecture on finance. His speech, “Mutual Funds: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution,” will begin at 4:15 p.m. in Todd Hall, Room 276. Fortune magazine has named Bogle one of the investment industry’s four ‘Giants of the 20th Century’ for his role in founding The Vanguard Group Inc., one of the two largest mutual funds groups in the world and a leader in index-fund investing. For more, see https://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=4492

Peter Jennings, anchor and senior editor of ABC News “World News Tonight,” will accept the Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting and speak on current events Wednesday (April 14) at WSU’s Pullman campus. The Murrow Symposium will also include a career day designed to give high school and college students insights into the field of communication through presentations by top communication professionals in the Northwest. A technology and career fair will highlight the latest gadgetry and provide students a chance to talk to prospective employers. For more on the symposium, see www.wsu.edu/murrow

Legendary TV chef-entertainer Graham Kerr, and his author-producer wife, Treena, will be special guests at Mom’s Weekend events, April 16-17, at Washington State University. The Kerrs will extend their stay on the Palouse to the following week and address WSU classes, hospital and health care audiences and churches on a variety of topics. Kerr is known to millions for his “Galloping Gourmet” series, aired in the United States from 1969-71, and several syndicated shows that are running currently on TV. For more on the Kerrs’ visit to the Palouse, see https://wsunews.wsu.edu/detail.asp?StoryID=4491. For more on all the events scheduled for Mom’s Weekend, check https://www.events.wsu.edu/moms-weekend/index.html

In the news

Lessons from hibernation: The arrival of spring means that WSU’s grizzly bears are awakening from their winter’s sleep. That hibernation is of particular scientific interest to Lynne Nelson, a veterinary cardiologist who is studying what this natural phenomenon might tell us about heart disease in humans. When the grizzlies hibernate, their heart rates slow and their heart muscles weaken. The symptoms are similar to that found in human heart disease. But when the grizzlies awaken, their hearts quickly resume normal function. Nelson is seeking to understand this regeneration of grizzlies’ hearts to find out what it might tell us in treating human heart problems. Nelson is available at 509.335.0711 or olnelson@vetmed.wsu.edu.