Global Oil Depletion and Implications for the Pacific Northwest is the title of an Oct. 4-5 conference that will feature world and national energy experts analyzing energy outlooks and conservation strategies. The conference, presented by Washington State University’s Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service, will be held at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. […]
Among them, they’ve donated thousands of volunteer hours and have answered just as many questions about every bug and blight known to Washington state gardening.WSU Extension Master Gardeners honored four members, each with more than 20 years of experience in the program, at its conference on the Pullman campus this week. Marilyn Tilbury of Seattle, […]
Are the run-up in gasoline prices and energy supply problems in the wake of Hurricane Katrina just short-term issues? Or are we now receiving a troubling preview of our uncertain energy future?On Oct. 4-5 at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, some of the nation’s leading experts on oil production, global energy demand and alternative energy […]
Nearly 400 Washington State University Extension educators from throughout the state will gather on the Pullman campus March 1-3 for the biannual all-extension conference.“Creating A Culture of Change: Extension, Entrepreneurism and Engagement” focuses on how to affect and adapt to change in order to better serve extension clients, said WSU Extension Dean Linda Kirk Fox.“Many […]
Technical support staff are invited to attend the first WSU information technology forum March 13-15 on the Pullman campus. Free to WSU employees, the forum will provide professional development and networking opportunities. Attendees must register in advance via the website at http://infotech.wsu.edu/vpis no later than March 4. Ed Lazowska, the Bill and Melinda Gates chair […]
The Black Women’s Caucus of Washington State University will host its annual African-American Women’s Conference Feb. 26, featuring workshops and seminars on issues of gender and race.Guest speakers and facilitators for the events include Eunice Johnson, Mary Grimes and the Rev. Carmen Woods. Conference registration is $10; the deadline to register is Feb. 17. The […]
Members of the Washington State University community are invited to attend two lectures by keynote speakers of WSU Extension’s 2005 All-Extension Conference.The conference, titled “Creating a Culture of Change: Extension, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement,” will focus on the theme of entrepreneurship.Cam Marston, author of “Managing Across the Cultural Divide,” will make a presentation titled “Four Generations […]
In an effort to provide opportunities for increasing change and engaging the university community, WSU is hosting All-Extension Conference 2005, March 1-3 in the CUB.The conference, entitled “Creating a Culture of Change: Extension, Entrepreneurship, and Engagement,” is an opportunity for more than 300 Extension professionals to gather and learn new ways of engaging students, colleagues, […]
The state Public Employment Relations Commission has announced that it will hold a conference call on Feb. 4 with representatives from the Washington Federation for State Employees and Washington State University. The purpose of the meeting is to establish a date when PERC can hold a public hearing to review the unfair labor practice complaint […]
The annual conference of the national Oral History Association, co-hosted by Washington State University Vancouver, will be held Sept. 29 to Oct. 3 at the Hilton Portland and Executive Tower Hotel in Portland, Ore.The theme of the five-day event is “Telling Stories,Narratives of Our Own Times.”OHA gathers together academics, public historians, educators, personal historians and […]