“Globalization of Homelessness and Poverty” is the focus of Washington State University Vancouver’s Spring 2005 Honors Lecture Series.The series, which will take place throughout spring semester, will feature nine lectures dealing with poverty. Upcoming lectures include: Feb. 27, Mark Lakeman, representative from The City Repair Project in Portland, will discuss “The Village Lives.” March 17, […]
Rachel Halverson and Ana Maria Rodriguez-Vivaldi, associate professors of foreign languages, have put together a spring foreign film and lecture series titled “Like a Duck Out of Water: Cinematic Explorations of Lives at Odds with the World Around Them.” All films are free to the public and will be shown at 7 p.m. in Smith CUE. * […]
Washington State University welcomes Lance J. Ewing, vice president for Caesar’s Entertainment, to campus on Monday Oct. 25, to present the annual Walton Lecture. Ewing serves as risk manager for the company. He will discuss the concept of enterprise risk management (ERM) at 4:30 p.m. in Todd 130. The public is welcome, and a reception […]
Susan Winckler, staff counsel of the American Pharmacists Association, will speak on the “Medicare Drug Benefit: Threat, Opportunity or Both,” at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, for this year’s Allen I. White Lecture.Presented by the Washington State University College of Pharmacy at WSU Spokane, the free public lecture will be in the Phase I Classroom […]
WSU’s second annual International Education Week will be Oct. 16-23 and will include not only WSU students, faculty and staff, but also the greater Pullman community.Schedule• The week will start off with a party in Reaney Park, noon-3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17. Open to the public, the party will feature the Seattle steel drum band […]
Scientist and author David Suzuki, who is described as a conscience on the global environment, will deliver the annual Lane Family Lecture in Environmental Science at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in Todd Auditorium. Suzuki’s presentation, “Ecology vs. Economy: Setting the Real Bottom Line,” is free to the public. A reception will follow. The winner […]
“Can you be both a leader and an entrepreneur?” That’s the question to be discussed by Joseph P. Micatrotto, chairman, president and CEO of Micatrotto Ventures, Inc., at the annual Burtenshaw Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, in Smith CUE 203. A reception will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the CUE atrium, second floor. […]
VANCOUVER, Wash. — WSU Vancouver will host a nine-part lecture series on the science of Hollywood as part of the university honors program.The series will be divided into five scientific topics – genetic screening/databasing, global warming, disease: emerging infectious diseases, brain injuries and techno-identity/cyborgs – and will include the screening of films and lectures by […]
John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group, Inc. and president of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, will visit Washington State University Tuesday April 13 to present the 2004 Gary P. Brinson Distinguished Lecture on finance. His speech, “Mutual Funds: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution,” will begin at 4:15 p.m. […]
The 2004 Abelson Lecture at Washington State University will be given by geneticist Huntington F. Willard, director of the Duke University Genomics Institute. Willard is noted for tracing the genetic basis of human health and disease. His lecture “The Genome Revolution: Implications for Health and Society” is slated for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 5 in […]