WSU Tri-Cities

Stress Management & Communication Workshop
2017-03-21 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | West 239, 2710 crimson way, richland, 99354
Academic Advisors partner with the Counseling Services to host workshops to support all students at WSU Tri-Cities.
The Stress Management & Communication workshop is designed to give students tools to deal with internal and external stressors. We will cover strategies to mitigate stress and provide practical application of the concepts that we cover. We will also discuss the role that communication plays in both stress management and success planning. We will discuss topics such as identity, giving and receiving feedback, and asking for help. The workshop will be interactive and include group activities and discussion, led by Aphrodite Beidler, a licensed mental health counselor in Washington State.
Registration is not required.

MAPS for Current Students
2017-03-21 15:00 - 16:30, 2017-03-22 14:30 - 16:00, 2017-03-23 09:00 - 10:30, 2017-03-27 10:30 - 12:00, 2017-03-28 15:00 - 16:30, 2017-03-29 14:30 - 16:00, 2017-03-30 09:00 - 10:30, 2017-04-03 10:30 - 12:00 and 2 more dates | CIC 101R
Majors and Academic Planning Sessions (MAPS) are held in a group setting and are pre-advisement sessions that are held each semester before priority registration. Academic advisors and faculty mentors lead these workshops and provide registration information and schedule building tools so you will make progress toward meeting your graduation requirements.
Priority registration begins April 10. Visit your student center to see your enrollment dates.
MAPS for 2017 course scheduling will be held at the following times in CIC 101R:

Monday
10:30 to 12 p.m.Tuesday
3 to 4:30 p.m.Wednesday
2:30 to 4 p.m.Thursday
9 to 10:30 a.m.

March 6March 7March 8March 9

March 20March 21March 22March 23

March 27March 28March 29March 30

April 3April 4April 5April 6

Convocation - Engineering, Education, Business, Nursing, Liberal Arts, Sciences, and V&E
2017-05-05 16:00 - 18:30 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Convocation is a time for the campus community to recognize graduating students and their families. This year’s event will be held on Friday, May 5 at 5:00 p.m. Please note that the Order of Engineering Ring Ceremony that is held in the East Auditorium will begin one hour earlier at 4:00 p.m.
Please RSVP to participate in Convocation. Graduates can bring up to four guests. Dress attire for the event is business casual.
The events will be held at the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus. Celebrations will be held with students, families, and faculty at their respective academic colleges in the following building locations:

4:00 pm | Engineering (East Building Auditorium, Room 266)
5:00 pm | Education (CIC Building, Rooms 210, 212, 214)
5:00 pm | Business (CIC Building, Room 216)
5:00 pm | Liberal Arts, Sciences & V&E (CIC Building, Room 120)
6 p.m. | Nursing (Red Lion Hotel Richland Hanford House)

Commencement
2017-05-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Toyota Center, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, 99336
Join us for Commencement and celebrate our students’ accomplishments. The event begins at 1 p.m. at the Toyota Center (7000 W Grandridge Blvd, Kennewick, WA).
Graduating students are encouraged to RSVP. Visit the Commencement site for more information.
The event is free and open to the public.

Fall Faculty Retreat
2017-08-17 08:30 - 15:30 | CIC 120/120A
Faculty are invited to attend a full-day retreat to network and learn about upcoming initiatives.
For location reference, please check our campus maps

Medical School Community Night
2017-09-06 18:00 - 20:00 | CIC 120/120A
The WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is hosting its first clinical intersession week and homestay community night for the charter class of medical students. To connect and engage students in the communities where they will spend their third and fourth years of training, the homestay program enables community members to house students during their intersession weeks and immerse them in the life and culture of the local community. The event will bring together the 15 medical students who will be based in the Tri-Cities and the local host families for the first time.
This event is invitation only.

Veterans Day Holiday (observed) - campus closed
2017-11-10 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Thanksgiving Day - Campus Closed
2017-11-23 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Native American Heritage Day - Campus closed
2017-11-24 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Global Cougs 101
2017-11-29 12:10 - 13:00 | Floyd 239, United States
Attend this info session to learn how to study abroad while you are studying at WSU Tri-Cities. Learn about the steps in the study abroad process, application deadlines and more.

“Hibakusha at the End of the World” by Japanese film maker Hitomi Kamanaka
2018-03-09 18:30 - 21:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
History will be made on Friday, March 9, when an atomic-bomb survivor (hibakusha) from Nagasaki,
Mr. Mitsugi Moriguchi, will visit Richland and tour Hanford’s B Reactor, which produced plutonium
for the Nagasaki atomic bomb. He will be accompanied by a student from Nagasaki University, Ms.
Hanako Mitsuoka.
The visit is part of a Nagasaki-Hanford Bridge Project sponsored by Consequences of Radiation
Exposure (CORE), a Washington state nonprofit, and funded, in part, by the City of Nagasaki.
The project is spearheaded by Professor Emerita Norma Field of the University of Chicago and
Associate Professor Yuki Miyamoto of De Paul University in Chicago, who is a second-generation
hibakusha (that is, at least one parent is an A-bomb survivor). Trisha Pritikin, an Oakland attorney
active with Hanford downwinders, is also part of the project team.
A press conference with the visitors will be held at 3:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room of the
Hanford Reach Interpretive Center, 1943 Columbia Park Trail.
Also on March 9 at 6:30 p.m., the documentary film “Hibakusha at the End of the World” by
Japanese film maker Hitomi Kamanaka will be shown at the WSU Tri-Cities auditorium.
In current usage, the term hibakusha identifies all human victims of radiation. The film brings
together footage not only from Japan and Hanford, but also Iraq (victims of depleted uranium
munitions).
Following the two-hour film, there will be an address by Mr. Moriguchi and a question and answer
period. The event is open to the public.
Media contact: Jim Stoffels, 946-8087

Seminar - Understanding km- to Reach-Scale Hydrological Exchange Flows along a Large Dam-Regulated River Corridor by Dr. Xingyuan Chen
2018-04-13 11:10 - 12:00 | BSEL 104
We will have a seminar tomorrow April 13, 11:10 AM -12:00 PM in BSEL 104 on “Understanding km- to Reach-Scale Hydrological Exchange Flows along a Large Dam-Regulated River Corridor” by Dr. Xingyuan Chen, who is a senior scientist in Atmospheric Measurements and Data group at PNNL. Please join us.
Understanding km- to Reach-Scale Hydrological Exchange Flows along a Large Dam-Regulated River Corridor

Abstract : This study seeks to understand how the hydrological exchange flows (HEFs) at the river water and groundwater interface are impacted by the dynamics of river flow and the heterogeneity in hydrogeologic properties in dynamic river corridor systems. We used a combination of field observations and high-resolution 3D numerical simulations (PFLOTRAN) to understand the complex spatial and temporal dynamics of HEFs from the km- to reach-scale (10s of km) along the regulated river corridor of the Hanford reach. The spatially distributed hourly data acquired from a monitoring well network at the Hanford site are used to define the initial and boundary conditions of groundwater aquifer, as well as for calibrating and validating numerical models. The drilling logs of the wells and river bathymetry were used to conceptualize the hydrogeologic formations of the domain, which show substantial variability in aquitard topography within the Hanford river corridor. Multiple numerical tracers are introduced at selected segments of river boundary to track the contribution of river water in the groundwater system. Particle tracking is run to reveal exchange pathways and estimate the distributions of river water residence time.
At the km-scale, the exchange pathways exhibit strong heterogeneity along the river shoreline within a given flow window as impacted the physical heterogeneity in riverbed substrate and in the aquifer. The riverbed permeability (or conductance) and its spatial heterogeneity are identified as the most sensitive parameters of the HEF model. The exchange patterns also vary substantially across different flow regimes. Consequently, the residence time distribution of river water in the groundwater system is featured by long tails and multiple modes. The reach-scale HEF model encompasses multiple hydromorphic features of the entire reach, which showed increasingly more complex spatial and temporal patterns of HEFs as the scale grows. The HEF studies at both the km and reach scales fill in a critical need in bridging the gaps between hydromorphic-scale process understanding and robust predictions of the watershed hydrobiogeochemical function
Short Bio: Dr. Xingyuan Chen is a research scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is a co-PI on a DOE science focus area project that studies Influences of Hydrologic Exchange Flows on River Corridor and Watershed Biogeochemical Function. Her main research expertise is in multiscale hydrobiogeochemical modeling and data assimilation. She got her PhD degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Master’s degree in Statistics from University of California, Berkeley.

Commencement
2018-05-05 13:00 - 15:30 | Toyota Center, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, 99336

RFO Faculty Brownbag with Janet Peters
2018-09-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Floyd 247, 2710 Crimson Way, WA, 99354, United States
All faculty are welcome to discuss teaching practices and gather information.

Wyatt Wineinger to present history of Day's Pay Bomber
2018-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
On September 28th at the East Auditorium from 6-8PM, Mr. Wyatt Wineinger, the son of the pilot of the Day’s Pay bomber, will be giving a talk about the history of the Day’s Pay bomber and it’s missions and crew. The Day’s Pay was a B-17 bomber purchased by employees of the Hanford Engineer Works in 1944 who were encouraged to “give a day’s pay and send a bomber on its way” to the European theater. The plane was purchased with these individual donations, had a short ceremony here at the Hanford Construction Camp (about 10 miles north of our campus near the town of Hanford), and then flew over 60 missions in Europe before being excessed and scrapped at the end of the war. More historical information on the Day’s Pay can be found at http://www.historylink.org/File/7491.
The Hanford History Project is helping a local historian, Don Sorenson, plan events commemorating this history. Mr. Wineinger will be visiting us for several days from his home in Holcomb, KS and this Presentation/Q&A will also feature artifacts and archival material from the Day’s Pay and some of the crew reunions. This talk is open to students, staff, faculty, and the general public. Please tell your students and consider attending what is sure to be an interesting talk and discussion!

PARKER LECTURE SERIES
2018-10-04 17:00 - 18:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
The lecture ‘What Do We Know about the Human Health Effects of Radiation Exposure?’ is lead by Dr. Roy E Shore, New York University School of Medicine. The Parker Lecture Series is sponsored by the Herbert M. Parker Foundation in partnership with Washington State University Tri-Cities. Please join us at the WSU Tri-Cities East Auditorium (E266) on Thursday, October 4, 2018, at 5:00 pm.

Book launch for "Nowhere to Remember" - first volume in Hanford Histories book series
2018-10-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Manhattan Project National Historical Park Interim Visitors’ Center, 2000 Logston Boulevard, Richland, 99354, United States
A collaboration between WSU Press and the WSU Tri-Cities Hanford History Project, “Nowhere to Remember” is edited by WSU associate professor of History Robert Bauman and HHP assistant director Robert Franklin. Both co-editors also contributed a chapter to the volume. The Hanford Histories series is edited by professor of English and HHP director Michael Mays.
There will be a short program and books will be for sale at the event.

LGBTQ+ 101 and Community Panel
2018-10-11 15:30 - 17:00 | SUB 120N, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
Please join Katie Banks and Joshua Rumley for an introduction to LGBTQ+ terminology from 3:30-4:00. We will then be joined by community members Jay Chavez, Anna Southern, and Jessyca Ramonette to discuss “coming out” and LGBTQ+ issues in recognition of the 30th Anniversary of National Coming Out Day.

Dr. Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey: Making "Vile Things Precious": King Lear and the Collapse of Civilization
2018-10-11 18:00 - 19:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
In partnership with Mid-Columbia Libraries for the NEA Big Read Grant, this on-campus lecture by WSU Tri-Cities English faculty member, Dr. Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey, will feature Shakespeare’s “King Lear’s” story of loss–of lives, of relationships, and of sanity. Dr. Lodine-Chaffey will consider how characters in this well-known tragedy react to chaos and brokenness.
This event is open to the campus community and the general public.
https://www.midcolumbialibraries.org/nea-big-read-mid-columbia#events

Using Power & Privilege for the Greater Good: Empowering Students
2018-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Floyd 239, United States
This workshop is part of a series sponsored by the Office of Development and the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs on social justice. It will focus on helping WSU Tri-Cities’ faculty and staff recognize diversity and inclusion within our spaces in a way that promotes student success and empowers our student body.

Student Leadership and Diversity: Taking Action on Campus and Beyond
2018-10-20 10:00 - 12:00 | SUB 120, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
Open to Student Leaders: This workshop is part of a series sponsored by the Office of Development and the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs on diversity and social justice. The training will focus on helping WSU Tri-Cities’ students recognize diversity and inclusion within our spaces in a way that empowers our student body to take action on campus and in the broader Tri-Cities community.
