PULLMAN, Wash. — The 49th Annual Road Builders Clinic, conducted by Washington State University and the University of Idaho March 10-12, is expected to attract a record number of participants in Coeur d’Alene. More than 275 federal, state and local highway and transportation officials and private sector executives are scheduled to attend the conference. Discussion […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — When a group of travelers ventured south of the border last summer they explored 400 miles of the Yucatan Peninsula through Washington State University’s Conferences & Institutes Yucatan Study Tour program. This summer, about 20 WSU honors students will join the Mexico-bound travelers and receive college credit at the same time. The […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Support from four companies and a member of the Washington State University Board of Regents is assisting the 1998 Black-Male Orientation to Leadership Development and the African American Women’s conferences at WSU. Using the theme “Empowering Ourselves to Build Our Community,” the BOLD and AAW conferences for African American college and high […]
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 […]