Speakers, workshops, and more planned for Black History Month
Events honoring Black History Month have been taking place across the WSU system with several more planned for the coming days and weeks.
Common Reading
Pop culture’s depiction of nuclear energy focus of Common Reading
Mark O’English, researcher and writer for Marvel Entertainment and WSU Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections archivist, is the featured speaker on Feb. 5.
‘Soonish’ selected as WSU Pullman’s 2018-19 common reading book
WSU Pullman announced its 2018-19 common read: “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything.”
March 27: Common Reading participants invited to 80s Game Night & Crimson Key Gala
By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University students, faculty and staff are invited play retro board games at the 80s Game Night & Crimson Key Gala from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Terrell Library Atrium.
March 27: Common Reading participants invited to 80s Game Night & Crimson Key Gala
By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University students, faculty and staff are invited play retro board games at the 80s Game Night & Crimson Key Gala from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in the Terrell Library Atrium.
Jan. 29: Undergraduate research’s transforming power marks topic of WSU Common Reading talk
By Bev Makhani, Office of Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Shelley Pressley, director of the Washington State University Office of Undergraduate Research, will present “Leveling Up with Undergraduate Research,” 4:10 p.m. Mon., Jan. 29, in CUE, 203.
Sept. 18: WSU Common Reading lecture ‘The Future Has Always Been Female’
By Emma Epperly, Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – The Washington State University Common Reading Program hosts “The Future has Always Been Female: Mary Shelley, Ada Lovelace, and the Origins of Science Fiction and Computing,” a lecture by Roger Whitson, 4:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 18, in CUE 203.
Common Reading book nominations for 2018-19 open through Nov. 1
By Bev Makhani, Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – The Washington State University Common Reading Program is accepting nominations for the 2018-19 students’ common reading book to coincide with the theme “Frontiers of technology, health and society.”
Sept. 5: Common Reading lecture — HIV, AIDS stigmas persist into digital times
PULLMAN, Wash. – Matthew Jeffries, director of Washington State University’s Gender Identity/Expression and Sexual Orientation Resource Center, will present “Not all video games and the brat pack: AIDS stigma from the 1980s to the digital age” as a common reading lecture at 5 p.m. Tues., Sept. 5, in CUE 203.
Aug 28: ‘Ready Player One’ author to present Common Reading Invited Lecture
By Bev Makhani, Office of Undergraduate Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Ernest Cline, screenwriter and author of “Ready Player One,” will give the 11th annual Common Reading Invited Lecture, 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, in Beasley Coliseum on the WSU Pullman campus, with streaming to other WSU campuses statewide.