PULLMAN, Wash. – Read a good book lately? Nominations for the 2014-15 common reading book at Washington State University Pullman are welcome from the WSU and larger communities through Friday, Dec. 13.
PULLMAN, Wash. – “All the Ways I Was Wrong in College, and How Glad I Am I Was” will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in Stephenson residence hall’s Down Under by Melynda Huskey, dean of students. It is part of Washington State University’s free, public Common Reading Tuesdays series.
PULLMAN, Wash.— U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) hollers “You Lie!” at President Barack Obama during his health-care speech to Congress. Conservative talk-radio showman Rush Limbaugh labels a caller a “slut” because she advocates insurance coverage for contraceptive care. Occupy Wall Street protesters portray bankers as criminals. Is American democracy in the midst of an “incivility […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington geologist who defended his theory of the Missoula flood when everyone else attacked it as wrong will be the subject of a free, public presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept 24, in Todd 216 at Washington State University. The event ties to the WSU common reading book, “Being Wrong,” by […]
Patricia Hunt, WSU geneticist, BPA expert, in her laboratory PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University geneticist Patricia Hunt, who was called “the accidental toxicologist” by Scientific American magazine, will discuss “Science by Accident” 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, in Smith CUE 203. The public is welcome to attend the lecture that is part […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Scores of missteps as a soldier and cop in hazardous places have prepared Bryan Vila to make a career of studying deadly errors in his criminology lab at Washington State University Spokane. His free, public presentation, “Mistaken Adventures around the Globe,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, in Smith CUE 203 will […]
Blemmye Panotti PULLMAN, Wash. – Early historian Hartmann Schedel described an African tribe called Blemmyes, headless humans with their eyes, nose and mouth on their chests, in his 1493 work “Nuremberg Chronicle.” An ancient woodcut shows one of the odd creatures sitting cross-legged with one finger of his raised right arm pointing skyward – possibly […]
PULLMAN —San Francisco author Mary Roach will visit WSU on Tuesday, Sept. 16, to present the annual guest lecture for the freshman Common Reading Program. “May I Show You Our Whale Tapeworm? (Why I Love Research and You Should Too)” is the title of her public presentation set for 7 p.m. that evening in the […]
With “Flu” making its way across the Pullman campus, the excitement has been contagious. In the third month of their first common reading project, WSU Pullman freshmen and their teachers are finding a variety of ways to use the book, “Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the […]
An online database allowing access to more than 100 documents related to the impact of the 1918 flu can now be found online. The topic of the 1918 flu is the focus of the WSU common reading program that freshmen at the Pullman campus are participating in this year. The book Flu, written by Gina […]