Renowned history and biography author Stanley Weintraub will be among the speakers during WSU’s third annual “Week of Remembrance,” March 5-10, to commemorate the liberation of Nazi death and concentration camps in Europe following World War II. Weintraub is the father of WSU communication professor Erica Austin. Weintraub is known for histories of the American […]
Warren Hoge, The New York Times Foreign Correspondent at the United Nations, will be on the WSU campus Sunday, Feb. 26. He will make a presentation at 2:30 p.m. in The Bundy Reading Room at Avery Hall, and will also be the featured speaker at the Multicultural Fundraising Dinner from 6-8 p.m. at the CUB.The […]
Wells Fargo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Kovacevich will be the guest speaker at the WSU College of Business Power Breakfast Thursday, April 13 in Seattle.The breakfast is scheduled from 7:30 – 9:00 a.m. at the Grand Hyatt Seattle, 721 Pine St. Washington CEO magazine is a media sponsor for the event.“We welcome Richard […]
A university president from Texas, a Washington State University regent and the head of a Pullman company serving the electric power industry worldwide will address graduates at Washington State University’s 110th spring commencement May 6 at Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.Texas Tech University President Jon Whitmore, a WSU graduate, will speak at the 8 a.m. ceremony for liberal […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Phyllis Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the Seattle Foundation, urged Washington State University graduates Saturday to make choices guided by compassion, passion and service as a way to lead a fulfilling life. “The world, whether it is the world of business, politics or the professions, needs you to make these […]
Phyllis J. Campbell, president and chief executive officer of the Seattle Foundation, will speak at Washington State University’s fall commencement set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 in Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.A WSU graduate and former regent of the university, Campbell was born in Spokane and lives in Issaquah. She is a WSU Alumni Achievement […]
Washington State University’s International Students’ Council will welcome lawyer, journalist and diplomat Clovis Maksoud (mahk-SOOD) to campus, Wednesday, Sept. 28, to discuss Arab democracy as part of International Education Week.Maksoud, a faculty member at American University in Washington, D.C., will discuss “Prospects and Problems, Democracy in the Arab Countries” from 7-8 p.m. in Bryan Hall […]
Nationally recognized educator, pediatric and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner Dr. Bernadette Mazurek Melnyk will be the featured speaker at the 2005 Cleveland Visiting Scholar events hosted by the Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing Sept. 22 in Spokane.Melnyk, dean and distinguished foundation professor in nursing at Arizona State University, has authored more than […]
Kerry Killinger, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Seattle-based Washington Mutual, will speak at the inauguration of the Washington State University Power Breakfast series at 7 a.m. Friday, Sept. 10, at the W Seattle Hotel. The series is sponsored by the College of Business and Economics.“I applaud the deep commitment to academic excellence made […]
Speaker and author Allan Johnson will give two public presentations on campus Oct. 21 and 22. The author of four books, Johnson has worked on issues of social inequality since receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He teaches sociology at Hartford College for Women and is a frequent speaker on university campuses. Several […]