History Scholarship Writing Workshop
2019-11-14 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Floyd 223, United States
This event is open to current students with a declared history major who are interested in applying for history scholarships. Presented by Tracey Hanshew, History Department, 372-7390, tracey.hanshew@wsu.edu

Undergraduate Research Symposium & Art Exhibition-Poster Session Only
2019-12-09 12:00 - 13:00, 2019-12-12 12:00 - 13:00 | CIC 120, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
The Undergraduate Research Symposium and Art Exhibition serves as an occasion where projects, independent studies, internship outcomes, or fine arts produced by undergraduate students during the semester is showcased to faculty, staff, administration, and community members.

Undergraduate Research Symposium& Art Exhibition-Poster Session Only
2019-12-13 12:00 - 13:00 | CIC 120, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
The Undergraduate Research Symposium and Art Exhibition serves as an occasion where projects, independent studies, internship outcomes, or fine arts produced by undergraduate students during the semester is showcased to faculty, staff, administration, and community members.
December 13th’s event will focus on the Research Symposium in room CIC 120.

Treasures in Your Attic: A Time Capsule Experience for Women’s History Month
2020-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Floyd Atrium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Presented by Dr. Tracey Hanshew, History Department, and Dr. Patricia Wilde, English Department
Description: Students are invited to a brown bag lunch to explore archive boxes containing resources and artifacts informational to women’s history
This event is open to WSUTC students.

Virtual Running Start Fall 2020 Orientation
2020-08-18 10:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Greetings New Running Start students!
We are excited for you to start your fall semester. We know this isn’t a normal start to a semester, and we want to you to start successfully.
You are invited to a required virtual orientation to learn about resources, what to expect in your classes, and meet with faculty and staff who are there to support you.
Please use the link below to register for orientation. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Register in advance for this meeting:https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrfuCsrT0iGdNXMSrTdgROPVGSp6kXKIpc

Writing to Belong | Jump Start Workshop
2020-08-18 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Writing to Belong
Presented by Robin Ebert Mays

This workshop is an integrative writing opportunity for students to learn more about common fears they may face such as finding success in academics or how to fit into the campus culture. During this time, I will share some of these common themes and help students gain confidence that they belong here at WSU Tri-Cities.

Watch on Zoom

Connecting College and Career | Jump Start Workshop
2020-08-19 13:00 - 14:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Connecting College and Career
Presented by Kristine Cody, Career Services

The path from college to your career may feel like it’s out far ahead of you as you start your college journey, but the truth is your college experience and career experience are deeply interconnected. If you are strategic in engaging with the right opportunities, the choices you make in college on whether to pursue an internship, participate in a Career Fair or sign up to be mentored by a local employer will have significant impact on how prepared you are to join the workforce. This workshop overviews the multiple ways you can start and engage with your career as a college student.

Watch on Zoom

Communicating with Faculty | Jump Start Workshop
2020-08-20 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Communicating with Faculty
Presented by Anna Plemons

This practical workshop will cover strategies for effectively communicating with faculty and will include topics like how to send an email, what to do during an office hours appointment, and how to start a conversation about internships or other opportunities.

Watch on Zoom

Welcome Provost Elizabeth Chilton | Graduate and Undergraduate Student Open Forum with Q&A
2020-08-26 11:15 - 12:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Join Chancellor Sandra Haynes in welcoming WSU Provost and Executive Vice President Elizabeth Chilton to WSU Tri-Cities.
Please join us in our open dialogue with Provost Chilton, including discussions around the fall semester and visioning for the future.
Participants are encouraged to submit questions before and during the live event. For advance submission, please use the link below.

Submit questions in advance
(Question submission closes at 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 24)

If you have a disability that requires special materials, services or assistance, contact the WSU Tri-Cities Access Services at 509.372.7352 or g.hormel@wsu.edu as soon as possible to discuss your specific needs.

About Dr. Chilton
Dr. Elizabeth Chilton was named Provost and Executive Vice President in May of 2020 and began serving at WSU in July.
A first-generation college student, Chilton earned her Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, after earning her B.A. at the University at Albany, State University of New York at Albany.
From 2017 to 2020, she served as dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, one of the largest universities in the SUNY system.
Prior to her tenure at Binghamton, Chilton spent nearly 16 years as a professor and leader at the University of Massachusetts. She served as a professor, anthropology department chair and associate vice chancellor for research and engagement, among other roles. She worked toward making the institutions she’s served more accessible, diverse, and inclusive.
After earning her Ph.D., Chilton got her start in academia at Harvard University, where she was a tenure track assistant professor and served as the Associate Curator for the Archeology of Northeastern North America at the institution’s Peabody Museum.
In addition to her administrative roles, Chilton is a respected author, teacher, and scholar of New England archeology and Native American studies.

Fiction Reading - Kelly Yang, YA & Middle-Grade Author | WSU Visiting Writers Series
2020-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Online, WA, 99354, United States
Fiction Reading – Kelly Yang, YA & Middle-Grade Author
7 p.m. – Sept. 23
YouTube Live – No registration necessary
Free and open to the public

One WSU: Advancing Washington State Town Hall - WSU Tri-Cities
2020-09-28 15:00 - 16:00 | WA, United States
Faculty, staff and students at WSU Tri-Cities are invited to join WSU President Kirk Schulz and Elizabeth Chilton, provost and executive vice president, for a Town Hall.
One WSU: Advancing Washington State Town Hall – WSU Tri-Cities
Presented by President Kirk Schulz, Provost Elizabeth Chilton
Moderated by Chancellor Sandra Haynes
Monday, Sept. 28, 3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
experience.wsu.edu
Among some of the topics to be discussed:

Implementation of the WSU system strategic plan
Ramped up efforts to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment system-wide
Recent accomplishments by the WSU Tri-Cities campus and each of the colleges

Following their opening remarks, the president and provost will participate in a question-and-answer period with meeting attendees.
Questions may be submitted in advance.
Accessibility
If you have a disability that requires special materials, services or assistance, contact WSU Tri-Cities Access Services at 509-372-7352 or g.hormel@wsu.edu as soon as possible to discuss your specific needs.

Virtual Career Fair
2020-10-14 10:00 - 16:00 | ONLINE, WA, United States
This year, WSU Tri-Cities & CBC’s Career Services are teaming up to bring you a virtual Career Fair experience through the Handshake platform. Handshake can be accessed anywhere with an internet connection. For optimal performance, including minimizing any errors while chatting with employers, use a desktop or laptop computer with a webcam to participate in the Career Fair. Employers and students will have the ability to sign up for Group Sessions and One-on-One sessions to recruit for and or learn more about full-time, part-time, and paid internship and job opportunities.

The Virtual Career Fair through the Handshake platform will have Employer Info Sessions and One-on-One Sessions with live video and chat features.
STUDENT REGISTRATION LINK

EMPLOYER REGISTRATION LINK
VISIT THE CAREER FAIR PAGE FOR UP TO DATE INFO ON HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE CAREER FAIR!

Announcement of Doctoral Examination
2020-11-20 12:30 - 15:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Toya Nicole Beiswenger will be taking her doctoral dissertation defense exam for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (ENRS). Toya will give a 30-minute overview of her research and then proceed to the examination portion.
Thesis Title: Characterization and Identification of Actinide Bearing Minerals and Soils Using Various Analytical Techniques for Signature Discovery
As a publicly-funded institution of higher education, all WSU final exams are required to be open to the public without exception.
Contact:
Allan Felsot, Dissertation/Thesis Committee Chair, afelsot@wsu.edu
Watch: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/95806765299?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 958 0676 5299
Passcode: [REDACTED]

WSU TRI-CITIES FIRST GEN STUDENT AND FACULTY STORIES
2020-11-20 13:30 - 14:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
LIVE first-gen student and faculty chats discussing familial/peer support, motivation, mentor-ship, and building a sense of community on campus.

Brought to you by the WSU Tri-Cities TRIO Student Support Services, Student Affairs, ASWSUTC, Cougs LEAD Club, & Student Life

GIVING TUESDAY
2020-12-01 08:00 - 23:30 | ONLINE, WA, United States
WSU Tri-Cities is raising funds to support student hardship relief.
Donate to the Student Emergency Hardship Fund or Cougar Cupboard Fund any time tomorrow – Tuesday, Dec. 1. Help WSU Tri-Cities raise more than $10,000!
Staff, faculty, the chancellor’s executive team and the WSU Tri-Cities advisory council are all completing matching challenges that will go into effect throughout the day as funds are raised. If you would like to contribute to those matching challenges, be sure to provide your gift TODAY.
– Donate to the Student Emergency Hardship Fund
– Donate to the Cougar Cupboard Fund
More info about WSU Tri-Cities’ Giving Tuesday campaign

Financial Aid Night
2020-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Join us virtually for a Financial Aid Night, hosted by Washington State University Tri-Cities. Learn about the types of financial aid available and have the opportunity to complete your FAFSA or WASFA application. We’ll have financial aid staffready to meet one-on-one with you in secure breakout rooms ready to answer any questions you might have. *This event is open to all students and their families, even if they are not applying to attend WSU Tri-Cities.*
Register for event at bit.ly/3kVpdt7
It’s not too late to apply for Financial Aid!
Questions?
tricities.admissions@wsu.edu

Common Read Seminar: Challenging Exclusion and Segregation in the Mid-Columbia Region
2021-01-26 16:00 - 17:30 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Panelists Robert Bauman, Robert Franklin, Laura Arata discuss racial segregation and resistance to discrimination in the Mid-Columbia region. Based on research and multiracial oral histories, the panel reveals the experiences of non-white groups such as Chinese immigrants, World War II Japanese incarcerates, and African American migrant workers from the South, whose lives were deeply impacted by the Hanford Site and who advocated for change.
Hosted by WSU Tri-Cities.
Book: Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance Voices
https://wsupress.wsu.edu/product/echoes-of-exclusion-and-resistance/

GHCCRes Scholar Lecture + Discussion with Lester Black
2021-02-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Online, WA, 99354, United States
Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Director of The Guest House Cultural Capital Residency (GHCCRes) program, Peter Christenson, welcomes you to a (virtual) chat exploring the power of design as a storytelling method with GHCCRes 2021 Scholar and writer Lester Black. Lester Black (b. 1990) is a writer and photographer currently based in Wenatchee, Washington. He was most recently a staff writer for the Seattle newspaper The Stranger and he has written for magazines and newspapers in nearly every region of the United States. His work combines social science research techniques with narrative first-person reportage and focuses on class warfare in America, environmental destruction, smoked beers, osteopathic serial killers, and drugs.

Email Peter Christenson at peter.christenson@wsu.edu for zoom link.

WSU Scholarship Applications Due
2021-03-15 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
The WSU Tri-Cities scholarship application is due Monday, March 15.
Scholarship application:
tricities.wsu.edu/finaid/scholarships
Fill-out the application to ensure you are eligible for scholarships across the WSU system, as well as WSU Tri-Cities-specific scholarships.
The scholarship application is only open one time per year.

TRIO Student Success Programs info session
2021-03-16 12:30 - 16:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Learn more about how TRIO can help you go above and beyond your academic and career goals.
TRIO serves first-generation, low-income and students with disabilities. It provides students with support resources, tutoring, mentorship, engagement experiences and more!
Tuesday, March 16
In-person and drive-through options
Win prizes!
Floyd Building drive-up session: 12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Zoom session: 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. – trio.tricities (Zoom ID)

Deadline to reserve regalia for graduation
2021-04-12 | online, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
The WSU spring system-wide virtual celebration will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 8.
WSU Tri-Cities also plans to host a socially-distanced commencement celebration for graduates the same weekend. Details are still being confirmed, and more information will be shared on that at a later date.
REGISTER FOR SYSTEM-WIDE VIRTUAL CELEBRATION
commencement.wsu.edu/registration
You must register to participate. Registration will open March 9.
Registration deadline is April 12.
RENT YOUR CAP AND GOWN
Regalia may now be ordered through Herff Jones: colleges.herffjones.com/college/washst
Rent by April 12 to allow for six-week delivery time.
Order early!
Pricing is available on the website.

First day of late six-week summer session
2021-06-21 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Are you interested in taking summer classes at WSU Tri-Cities?
The next summer session starts Monday, June 21.
All students pay in-state tuition over the summer. Summer courses are all offered virtually this year.
Check-out more information:
tricities.wsu.edu/summer/enrollment
Need to talk with an academic advisor?
Book an advising appointment

Welcome [Back] Open House for WSU Tri-Cities Students
2021-08-18 13:00 - 15:00 | Floyd Building Entrance, 2710 Crimson Way, richland, WA, 99354, United States
We know many of you haven’t been on campus for at least a year and a half, and some haven’t set foot on campus at all. As such, we’re hosting a Welcome [Back] Open House for all WSU Tri-Cities students!
Wednesday, Aug. 18
1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Floyd Building entrance
Join us on campus and enjoy the following:

20 percent off at The Bookie student bookstore
Visit with:

Academic Advising
Financial Aid
Access Services
And more!

Campus tour with ASWSUTC to learn about new things on campus
Get your Cougar Card (student ID)

WSU Visiting Writers Series
2021-09-22 18:30 - 21:00 | YouTube, WA, United States
Mark your calendars! WSU Visiting Writers Series invites you to a semester of free public in-person and live-streamed readings, Q&As, book signings, and museum exhibits. Zoe Hana Mikuta | YA Fiction Zoe Hana Mikuta is a Korean-American writer currently attending the University of Washington in Seattle where she is majoring in English with a creative writing focus and minoring in History of Religion. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado, where she developed a deep love of Muay Thai kickboxing and nurtured a slow and steady infatuation for fictional worlds. She enjoys writing about deteriorating worlds inhabited by characters with bad tempers, skewed morals, and big hearts. Her YA wlw sci-fi debut Gearbreakers was published by Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan in June 2021. An untitled sequel will follow in 2022. Wednesday, September 22, 2021 | 6:30 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Haki R. Madhubuti | Poetry Haki R. Madhubuti is an award-winning poet, one of the architects of the Black Arts Movement, an essayist, educator, founder and publisher (Emeritus) of Third World Press (1967) and Third World Press Foundation. He is the author/editor of over thirty-six books of poetry and nonfiction including Don’t Cry, Scream (1969), Run Toward Fear: New Poems and a Poet’s Handbook (2004), YellowBlack: The First Twenty-One Years of a Poet’s Life (2006); Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems 1967-2009 (2009), Honoring genius, Gwendolyn Brooks: The narrative of Craft, Art, Kindness and Justice (2011); and the best-selling Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? (1991). A long-time community activist and institution builder, Madhubuti is a co-founder of the Institute of Positive Education and its three schools in Chicago. He retired in 2011 after a forty-two-year distinguished teaching career that included Cornell University, Howard University, Chicago State University where he was appointed its first University Distinguished Professor and was the founding Director of its MFA Program in Creative Writing, and DePaul University, where he served as the last Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor. Madhubuti’s most recent books are, Taking Bullets: Terrorism and Black Life in Twenty-First Century America (2016), co-editor of Not Our President: New Directions From the Pushed Out, the Others, and the Clear Majority in Trump’s Stolen America (2017) and Taught By Women: Poems As Resistance Language New And Selected (2020). Tuesday, October 5, 2021 | 6:00 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Brian Blanchfield | Prose Brian Blanchfield is the author of three books of poetry and prose, including Proxies: Essays Near Knowing and A Several World, which received, respectively, a 2016 Whiting Award in Nonfiction and the 2014 Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award. His recent work appears in The Oxford American, Grand, Tin House, A Public Space, The Map Is Not the Territory, Northwest Review, Textual Practice, and Chicago Review. A finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir and the recipient of fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the Idaho Council for the Arts, Blanchfield teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and directs the MFA writing program at the University of Idaho. Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | 5:30 P.M. Watch live on YouTube!

The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism, and White Supremacy | Panel Presentation
2021-10-07 16:15 - 17:45 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Panelists Kristine Hoover, C. Richard King and Rebecca Erbelding will discuss White supremacist organizations and Nazi movements in the United States generally, and in the Pacific Northwest, in particular. The panelists will explore the development of white supremacist organizations at different times in American history, their relationship to each other and to international Nazi movements. In addition, the panelists will discuss the connection between these organizations and versions of white supremacy in today’s America.
Hosted by WSU Tri-Cities College of Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and WSU Center for Arts and Humanities. Register for Event
Speakers
C. Richard King
Professor and Chair of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences
Columbia College Chicago
C. Richard King is a professor and chair of Humanities, History and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago. His research concentrates on the racial politics of culture. He is particularly interested in uses and understandings of Indianness, white supremacist movements and ideologies, and the forms of memory, representation, identity, and power animating race relations. He is the author/editor of several books, including Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy (a CHOICE 2001 Outstanding Academic Title), Beyond Hate: White Power and Popular Culture, and most recently Redskins: Insult and Brand. Dr. Kristine F. Hoover
Associate Professor in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program and Director of the Institute of Hate Studies
Gonzaga University
Dr. Kristine F. Hoover is a Professor at Gonzaga University in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership and director of the Gonzaga Institute of Hate Studies. The Institute bridges the academy with community engagement, through research, teaching and partnerships with students, staff, faculty, and community members. She is a former Chair of the Washington Legislative Ethics Board and former Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) trainer. Dr. Hoover is concerned with questions regarding how organizations and communities shape inclusion and cultures of dignity. Her most recent book publication is Countering Hate: Leadership Cases of Non-Violent Action. Rebecca Erbelding
Historian, Education Initiatives
William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rebecca Erbelding has been a historian, curator, and archivist at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum for the past eighteen years and served as the lead historian on the Museum’s special exhibition, Americans and the Holocaust. She holds a PhD in American history from George Mason University. Her first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe (Doubleday, 2018), won the National Jewish Book Award for excellence in writing based on archival research. Robert Bauman
Academic Director, History Professor
Washington State University Tri-Cities
Professor Bauman is an award-winning historian whose research interests are in 20th Century U.S. History, social policy, religion and race in the American West. He is the author of a number of articles and book chapters and two books, Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East LA, published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2008, and Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul: America’s Ecumenical War on Poverty, published by the University of Georgia Press in 2019. He also is co-editor, with Robert Franklin, and co-author of Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland to 1943, published by WSU Press in 2018, and of a yet untitled forthcoming volume on Race and Diversity in the Hanford region. His article, “Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943-1950” won the Charles Gates Award for the best article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005.

Sciences Internship & Research Information Session
2021-12-06 16:10 - 17:00 | Collaboration Hall 102/202, WA, United States
This event is an opportunity for students in environmental science, biology, viticulture and enology, mathematics or undecided majors and minors to learn more about the internship and research opportunities.
Registration is not required to attend event, but to receive Coug Presence Points you must register before December 3.
Snacks and bottled water will be provided. REGISTER FOR COUG PRESENCE POINTS

WSU Visiting Writers Series
2022-02-09 18:00 | YouTube, WA, United States
The WSU Visiting Writers Series brings noted poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction to campus for creative readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. Natalie Diaz Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press and won an American Book Award. Her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020 and was a finalist for the National Book Award the Forward Prize, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, as well as a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumni of the Ford Fellowship. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Beth Piatote Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce writer, scholar, and Indigenous language activist. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction; and shortlisted for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Award for fiction; as well as numerous stories, essays, and poems in literary and scholarly journals. She is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Native American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and chair of the Designated Emphasis in Indigenous Language Revitalization. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and works in her heritage language of Nez Perce. Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Storme Webber Storme Webber is a Two Spirit Sugpiaq / Black / Choctaw poet and an interdisciplinary artist. She is second generation Two Spirit and lesbian. Her work is cross genre: incorporating text, performance, audio, and altar installation; archival photographs and collaboration in order to engage with ideas of history, lineage, gender, race and sexuality. Her practice explores liminal identities, survivance and decolonization, and does so in a blues/jazz-based experimental manner, often incorporating acapella vocals. Her performance is described by the artist Laiwan as poetics / jazz. Storme has received numerous honors and residencies; including from Hedgebrook, Ragdale and Banff Arts Centre, and recently was honored with the James W Ray Award. Her first solo museum exhibition, “Casino: A Palimpsest,” was presented at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle. Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Michelle Nijhuis Michelle Nijhuis is a contributing editor at High Country News and project editor at The Atlantic Monthly. Nijhuis’s most recent book Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction was shortlisted for the 2020 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, one of LitHub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021, winner of the Sierra Club’s 2021 Rachel Carson Award, and one of the Chicago Tribune’s 10 Best Books of 2021. She is author of co-editor of the Science Writer’s Handbook. Her reporting has won national honors, including two AAAS/Kavli Science Journalism Awards, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism, and inclusion in four Best American anthologies. Her work takes her throughout the western United States and beyond and has been supported by the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and the Food and Environmental Reporting Network. Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Inés Hernández-Avila Inés Hernández-Ávila (Niimiipuu/Nez Perce and Tejana), Professor, Native American Studies, UC Davis, is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). Her research focuses on the interrelationships between autonomy, the arts, spirit, and social justice, through the study of Native American/Indigenous poetry, U.S./Mexico, with a particular focus on Chiapas. She is a poet, scholar, translator, visual artist, and a member of Luk’upsíimey/The North Star Collective, a group of Niimiipuu creative writers and language workers. She has received two grants to take a Luk’upsíimey delegation to San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, to meet with Mayan counterparts, in Spring 2022. She has a contract with SUNY Press for the multi-lingual collection Donde Nacen los Cantos/Where the Songs Are Born: Contemporary Mayan and Zoque Poetry, featuring twenty poets in translation. She collaborated with the Library of Congress to produce the site La Palabra Indigenous Voices. Throughout her career she has been a bridge between Chicanx Studies/Chicanx community and Native American Studies/Native American community, and between Native writers in the U.S. and Indigenous writers in Mexico, Guatemala, and Chile. In April 2017, she received the Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award from the Latinx Studies section of LASA. Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Naomi Littlebear Morena Naomi Littlebear Morena is a Chicana lesbian writer and musician who is featured in the seminal third-wave feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Her song, “Can’t Kill the Spirit” has been adopted in protests internationally from England to Nicaragua. In the 1980s, the Greenham Common Peace Camps adopted the song to protest the storing of nuclear cruise missiles, which lasted nearly two decades and was some 30,000 women strong. In her essay, “Tierra Sagrada: The Roots of a Revolution,” Cherrie Moraga names Naomi Littlebear Morena as a groundbreaking figure of Chicana feminism: “Since the early 1980s, Chicana lesbian feminists have explored these traditionally dangerous topics in both critical and creative writings. Chicana lesbian-identified writers such as Ana Castillo, Gloria Anzaldua, and Naomi Littlebear Morena were among the first to articulate a Chicana feminism, which included a radical woman-centered critique of sexism and sexuality from which both lesbian and heterosexual women benefited” (160). Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube!

Master's proposal defense: Alexis Sullivan
2022-04-12 12:00 - 13:30 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Open to WSU Tri-Cities faculty, staff, and students.
Final Examination Announcement for Alexis Sullivan, who will be defending her thesis proposal for the degree of Master of Science in Biology. The exam announcement is to be posted in a public space within the department. As a publicly-funded institution of higher education, all WSU final exams are required to be open to the public without exception.
Alexis Sullivan’s Master’s proposal defense will be held on Tuesday, April 12 at noon over Zoom.

Title: Impact of invasion by annual grasses on mycorrhizal inoculation potential in the Palouse Prairie.

Abstract: The Palouse Prairie is one of the most critically endangered ecosystems in the United States, with less than 1% of native prairie remaining. The native prairie that remains today is increasingly threatened by land-use change and invasive species. The invasive winter annual grass Ventenata dubia has become a dominant threat to native prairie remnants, as it decreases native plant species diversity and native plant species richness. Although we have seen the effects of V. dubia on native plant communities since its introduction in the 1950’s, the impact V. dubia may have on soil microbial communities such as arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is not known. My graduate work has focused on understanding the impact that V. dubia invasion has, if any, on AM fungi in the Palouse Prairie.

Zoom Link: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/94290055300?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 942 9005 5300
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Master's Proposal Defense: Madeline Lueck
2022-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Open to WSU Tri-Cities faculty, staff, and students.

Please find below the Final Examination Announcement for Madeline Lueck, who will be defending her thesis proposal for the degree of Master of Science in Biology. The exam announcement is to be posted in a public space within the department. As a publicly-funded institution of higher education, all WSU final exams are required to be open to the public without exception.
Madeline Lueck’s Master’s proposal defense will be held on Friday, April 15th at 11am over Zoom.
Title: Effect of mycorrhizal inoculants on the growth and nutrient uptake of Vitis vinifera
Abstract: Modern agricultural practices can reduce the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi that occur in the soil. This decline in AM fungal abundance has led to an emerging market of mycorrhizal inoculant products to be used for the re-inoculation of AM fungi in disturbed systems. My graduate research will investigate whether mycorrhizal inoculants can establish in live field soil and improve productivity of young Vitis vinifera compared to locally sourced AM fungal inoculants.
Zoom Link: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/95073122955?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 950 7312 2955
Passcode: [REDACTED]
