PULLMAN, Wash. — Business consultant and former banking executive John S. Thielbahr of Sandpoint, Idaho, has been named director of Conferences and Institutes at Washington State University. Thielbahr was regional training director and manager of the Bonner Business Center Incubator for the Idaho Small Business Development Center in Sandpoint from 1991-93, before establishing his private […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Washington State University President Samuel Smith will participate in a Public Policy Conference on Affordability of Higher Education, May 29 at the Sea-Tac Occupational Skills Center in Seattle. The 1-4 p.m. event will be convened by U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and is sponsored by the Washington Friends of Higher Education, the Council of Presidents, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University Summer Palace organizers are looking for men, women and children of all ages to audition for two Gilbert and Sullivan musicals that make up the 33rd annual summer theater series. Auditions for “The Sorcerer” and “The Mikado” are planned for Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m.-noon and from 1:30-4 […]
PULLMAN, Wash.–Longtime area art teacher Vic Moore opens the Washington State University Museum of Art’s summer exhibit series with a talk about the late Ken Cory, an exhibiting artist, and his jewelry techniques. Moore’s talk, “Play Disguised: The Early Years,” is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26, at the Fine Arts Auditorium and is […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — G. Dennis Clifton, chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice, has been appointed interim dean of the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University. M. Abdel-Monem, who has been pharmacy dean since 1987, is retiring. Clifton came to WSU last year to head the pharmacy practice program, which is headquartered in Spokane. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Bruce R. Wright, interim head of Health and Wellness Services at Washington State University, has been appointed its permanent director. Wright joined the WSU student health program in 1996 as university psychiatrist after two years in a similar capacity at the University of Idaho. He has been interim director at WSU since […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Educators from around the country will gather in Bellevue next week to showcase new programs and discuss the rapidly growing area of distance education in the 21st century. More than 300 faculty, staff and administrators are expected to attend the second annual “Distance Education: Designing for Success” conference in the DoubleTree Hotel […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Joseph Kerr, general manager of the Florence, Ore., Events Center, will become the new director of Washington State University’s Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum effective June 1. Kerr succeeds James Crow, who retired recently from the university after serving as coliseum director since its opening in 1973. A 1981 graduate in technical theater […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — For centenarian Mae Sherman Johnson and her daughter Joyce Johnson Hansell of Umatilla County, Ore., it was a nostalgic trip. They returned to Pullman May 9 to relive memories of their college days and be honored at Washington State University’s 102nd commencement. Johnson and Hansell were honored with other family members in […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Juli Sherwood and Eric Schmieman, engineering Ph.D. students who did collaborative research through WSU’s Center for Multiphase Environmental Research, not only have contributed new knowledge to the environmental cleanup efforts, but received doctoral degrees at the May 9 graduation. Both are superior scholars, say their faculty in chemical and civil engineering, and […]