PULLMAN, Wash.–Washington State University senior Roger C. Shew of Pullman will present a double bass, music education recital March 10 at Simpson United Methodist Church. Assisting with the 8 p.m. program will be Amy Bland, piano; Chris Earley, percussion; and Steve Erwin, baritone/saxophone. Shew will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Rabbath, Coltrane and Monk. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Regent Carmen Otero and Donna Shavlik, former director, American Council on Education’s Office of Women in Higher Education, will discuss women and leadership at Washington State University’s 1998 Women and Leadership Forum, “Leadership in Our Lives,” March 26. The forum, sponsored by the offices of the President and the Provost, will begin […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — One of the last large blocks of wild country left in the Lower 48, the Clearwater Country in north-central Idaho is home to cougars, bears, and lynxes; lodgepole forests; cedar groves; and ponderosa pine. In Wild to the Last: Environmental Conflict in the Clearwater Country (WSU Press, 1998), Charles Pezeshki chronicles this […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University regents will elect officers for 1998-99 at their meeting Friday, March 6. The board convenes at 1:30 p.m. in the Lewis Alumni Centre, following morning committee meetings. Among action items to be considered is approval to implement a contractor/construction manager process for two major facilities on the Pullman campus. […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — An afternoon of chamber music is set for Sunday, March 8, in a Washington State University Faculty Chamber Music Concert. Opening the 3 p.m. program planned for Bryan Hall Auditorium is the Solstice Wind Quintet performing Paul Taffanel’s “Quintette.” Members of the quintet are Ann Yasinitsky, flute; James Schoepflin, clarinet; Gary Plowman, […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The R. Carlos Nakai Quartet, noted for its traditional Native American sounds, Latin rhythms, ethnic jazz and an urban attitude, will perform at Washington State University’s Beasley Coliseum at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, April 4. Flutist Nakai, keyboard and saxophone player Amo Chip, percussionist Will Clipman and vocalist Mary Redhouse combine their talents […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A neurologist and Zen practitioner will deliver a series of lectures at Washington State University beginning March 9, titled Zen and the Brain. James Austin, M. D., will base his series of six talks on themes in his new book of the same title, which was published in February by the MIT […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Marc W. Fariss, associate professor of Pharmacy at Washington State University, has been awarded a Gasper and Irene Lazzara Professorship, a 10-year grant of $500,000 from the Gasper and Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation, for his research on the use of vitamin E derivatives in cancer prevention and treatment. The important role of […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Campylobacter jejuni. Its name may not be familiar, but its effects are. It causes the cramping, diarrhea, fever and nausea usually associated with food-borne gastrointestinal illness. Campylobacter jejuni causes more of this illness in the United States than its more famous cousins Salmonella or Escherichia coli, somewhere between two and eight million […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Appearances by Vladimir Fortov, Russia’s minister of science and technologies, at Seattle and Washington State University have been canceled because of health reasons. Fortov was scheduled to arrive in Seattle Monday, March 2, for meetings with a group of state business and industrial leaders and to deliver an address at WSU Tuesday, […]