WSU Tri-Cities

Outstanding Teaching Award Nominations Due
2017-02-13 | WA
The WSU Tri-Cities Outstanding Teaching Award is designed to recognize the outstanding achievements in teaching of the WSU Tri-Cities faculty. The award is presented to a member of the faculty who has demonstrated excelled in the following areas of instruction:

Versatility in course content, application of teaching and learning scholarship, and/or development of teaching methods and class materials using high-impact practices;
Effectiveness/impact of teaching on students, program, and/or campus; and
Quality of teaching materials (such as syllabi, assignments, projects, tests, and lectures).

All appointed members of the WSU Tri-Cities faculty at the time of nomination are eligible for this award. This includes adjunct faculty.
Nominations are welcome from WSU Tri-Cities faculty, staff, administrators, students, and alumni. Self-nominations are also encouraged.

Time Management Workshop
2017-02-21 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | West 133
Academic Advisors partner with the Counseling Services to host workshops to support all students at WSU Tri-Cities.
Time management workshops are designed to give students tools and strategies to effectively manage their various commitments. Topics discussed include: conceptualizing time, prioritizing tasks, setting goals and boundaries, and managing commitments. The workshop will include group activities and discussion, led by Aphrodite Beidler, a licensed mental health counselor in Washington State.
Registration is not required.

Time Management Workshop
2017-03-06 13:00 - 14:00 | West 131

MAPS for Current Students
2017-03-07 15:00 - 16:30, 2017-03-08 14:30 - 16:00, 2017-03-09 09:00 - 10:30, 2017-03-20 10:30 - 12:00, 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 and 6 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

Stress Management & Communication Workshop
2017-03-20 13:00 - 14:00 | West 230
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.

Stress Management & Communication Workshop
2017-03-21 09:00 - 10:00 | West 239, 2710 crimson way, richland, 99354

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
