By Beverly Makhani, Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Nominations of books about leadership and social justice will be accepted through Oct. 15 for the 2016-17 common reading used by students in first-year classes at Washington State University.
PULLMAN – “Common Reading Tuesdays” – the newest addition to the popular Common Reading program at Washington State University — starts this week, bringing some of the most compelling research on campus directly to the students. Dr. Brian Kemp, molecular anthropologist and ancient DNA specialist, will meet with freshmen and others at 7 p.m. Tuesday […]
Historian, author, and expert on the 1918 influenza pandemic Alfred W. Crosby, a former WSU faculty member, returns to campus after more than a 30-year hiatus to present a lecture on that deadly flu, the topic of the university’s first common reading book for freshmen. Crosby’s public presentation is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. […]