WSU Tri-Cities

Herbert Parker Lecture | Radium in Pennsylvania - Miracle or Menace
2021-04-21 17:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | YOUTUBE, https://www.youtube.com/user/wsutricities, WA, United States
Radium in Pennsylvania – Miracle or Menace
Since the announcement of the Curies’ discovery of radium in late 1898, the scientific and medical community, as well as the public, has been fascinated with the potential use in treatment of disease and various medical conditions. Interest continues into current times in drama and literature. Sadly some of the early radium treatments were not grounded in scientific research, and would now be considered quack medicine. The early use of radium in various industrial applications is also noteworthy. This presentation will provide an overview of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s history and experiences with sites involving radium, where the material was manufactured, stored, and used for various medical and industrial applications, including a few radioactive quack cures. From 1910 into the 1920s, some of the first commercial radium production facilities were located in PA.
In May of 1921, Marie Curie and her daughters visited the U.S. and toured the facilities in Pittsburgh that produced the gram of radium purchased by the women of America, and presented to Madam Curie by President Harding. Around 1920 the use of radium in luminescent material for watches and aircraft gauges began in many locations, including PA. Effective use of radium in cancer therapy also began around this timeframe, with major radium source manufacturing operations being in Pittsburgh. The production of radium shifted to Belgium and Canada in the 1930s, with significant advances in cancer therapy. During the ‘30s Herbert M. Parker made significant contributions to the radiation dosimetry of such therapy. Historically radium was used in various products, at numerous locations, from circa 1910 through (as recent as) 2005. The sites are often found with significant building(s) and local soil contaminated with radium. Beginning in the 1960s, as contaminated buildings and properties were discovered, the state would take the lead or become directly involved with federal clean-up efforts at such facilities. Regrettably, radium sources and their use were not well controlled or regulated through the years. It was only with the passage of the Energy Policy Act in 2005 that NRC gained authority over discrete radium sources and related facility contamination. This was also a forcing function for regulatory uniformity at the state level. A few years ago the NRC directed one of their contractors to do an historical review of radium use in Agreement States and non-AS. The findings of these reviews were transmitted to each state. NRC conducted two ‘government-to-government’ webinars with the states in October 2016 to discuss outreach and the path forward in general. The Commonwealth was asked to present its experiences with radium contaminated sites. Of particular interest to the NRC, states, and property owners was the surface and volume contamination release criteria used for clean-ups, radon measurements, funding of clean-ups, waste disposal options, and public, property owner, and local government outreach and lessons-learned.
This presentation will review our past and ongoing efforts to address the radium contaminated sites in Pennsylvania. With all such sites and past work with radium, there is a concern of health effects with workers and members of the public. The presentation will also illustrate how the Commonwealth has led in this area, including the ongoing efforts to monitor and mitigate radon in buildings from natural occurring radium in soil, and a recent extensive evaluation of radium that returns with oil & gas production. From these many experiences, one might pose the question ‘is radium a miracle or a menace?’ The author will explain his thoughts, rationale, and conclusion for the answer.

Speaker
David J. Allard, MS, CHP, FHPS
Director, Pennsylvania State Bureau of Radiation Protection
Mr. Allard is the State of Pennsylvania’s Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection where he is responsible for accelerator, X-ray, environmental surveillance, nuclear safety, radiological emergency response, radioactive materials, decommissioning / site clean-up, low-level radioactive waste and radon programs. He is the Governor’s official liaison to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the technical lead on oil & gas radium and industry-generated NORM/TENORM issues. Mr. Allard received an associate in applied science degree in Environmental Health Technology from Hudson Valley Community College, a bachelor of science degree in Environmental Sciences from SUNY Albany, and a master of science degree in Radiological Sciences & Protection from U Mass – Lowell’s Department of Applied Physics. He is certified by the American Board of Health Physics, a Fellow of the Health Physics Society (HPS), and has acted as the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors’ (CRCPD) liaison to the National Council on Radiation Protection & Measurement (NCRP) for over 15 years. Dave has been in various leadership roles with the HPS and CRCPD; as a Director in both organizations, Treasurer of the HPS, and past Chairperson of the CRCPD. He is also a member of the AAPM, ANS, NRRPT and SNMMI. Mr. Allard also serves as a member or advisor on several national and international radiation protection committees. He has authored numerous professional papers and reports, and frequently lectures on a wide variety of radiation protection topics and concerns.

Virtual Etiquette Dinner
2021-04-22 17:00 - 18:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Join us for the 2021 Virtual Etiquette Dinner! Learn how to prepare for a professional dining experience from our past 2003 ASWSU President Jesse Aspuria. Jesse, a Senior Account Executive with Marriott, has over 15 years of experience to share with you during this interactive virtual event.
The Etiquette Dinner will boost your confidence and give you a competitive edge as you navigate the professional world of virtual networking.
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Honk & Cheer Para La Raza 2021
2021-05-01 11:00 - 13:00 | WSU Tri-Cities Elson S. Floyd Parking Lot, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
The Dreamers Club is excited to announce the Honk & Cheer Para La Raza Multicultural Graduation at WSU Tri-Cities!
Food, goodies bags, and music from Juan Fonseca!
Register at bit.ly/3cWCa

Using Data to Engage Students - Virtual Workshop
2021-05-14 13:00 - 16:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Big data is changing our world and data can be a powerful tool for engaging students in any content area. Please join us on Friday, May 14, 2021 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm as we share how data can be used in any content area to engage students at any level, deepen learning and address 21st century skills. Time will be provided to develop lessons integrating data into your courses.
During the workshop participants will:
• Use real world problems with data sets to explore key data science and computational thinking skills.
• Learn how to adapt these ideas and skills to any subject matter.
• Network with other WSU faculty about engaging students with data.
• Leave with just in time ideas and strategies for working with big data in their classrooms.
This workshop will occur simultaneously, via Zoom, across the Pullman, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver campuses.
Join Zoom Meeting from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/97551198668?pwd=[REDACTED]

Please RSVP to contacts below if you plan to attend (but feel free to attend even if you do not RSVP) or if you have questions:
Judy Morrison jamorrison@wsu.edu
Ann Wright-Mockler ann.wrightmockler@pnnl.gov
Jonah B. Firestone jonah.firestone@wsu.edu

Commemorating George Floyd
2021-05-25 14:00 - 15:00 | ZOOM, WA, United States
Join us for reflection, connection, and healing as we discuss our past, present, and future.
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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)

Week of Welcome Activities
2021-08-23 - 2021-08-28 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Check out Tricities.wsu.edu/welcome for up to date Week of Welcome event details!

Collaboration Hall Soft-Opening
2021-08-23 12:00 - 14:00 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Soft-Opening of the Collaboration Hall is open to faculty, staff, and WSU Tri-Cities current students.

National College Colors Day
2021-09-03 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
National College Colors Day is an annual celebration dedicated to promoting the traditions and spirit that make the college experience great by encouraging people across America to wear apparel of their favorite college or university throughout the day. The College Licensing Company founded College Colors Day in 2004. It is traditionally the Friday before Labor Day.
Wear your college colors; share your stories. Use #CollegeColorsDay to post on social media and spread the word.
Friday, September 3, 2021 is the day! Visit collegecolorsday.com to win prizes and support your team.

Grand Opening Celebration Collaboration Hall
2021-09-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Attend the grand opening celebration of Collaboration Hall, WSU Tri-Cities’ new academic building.
The grand opening will feature official remarks by university leaders, light refreshments, a ribbon cutting and open tours of the building.

Unable to attend in-person?
Attend virtually: youtube.com/wsutricities

Wednesday, Sept. 22
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
WSU Tri-Cities Collaboration Hall
2780 Crimson Way
Richland, WA 99354

For the safety and wellbeing of our guests, COVID protocols will apply

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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!

Get to know a Hispanic Coug
2021-09-27 | @wsutc_mosaiccenter, WA, United States
Tune in for interviews on the WSU Tri-Cities MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion Instagram account with Hispanic students, faculty, staff and others.
Every Monday through Oct. 15!

La Fiesta de Comida
2021-10-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Rotary Stage, WA, United States
Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion and the Dreamer’s Club for snacks and drinks from various Hispanic countries, including Argentina, Columbia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela. Dance to Latin music and meet fellow Cougs!
Tuesday, Oct. 5 | Noon – 2 p.m. | WSU Tri-Cities Rotary Stage

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.

LGBTQ+ Ally Training
2021-10-20 11:00 - 12:30 | Zoom, WA, United States
Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion for a Zoom training on how to be an awesome ally for the LGBTQ+ community! Wednesday, Oct. 20
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom
Meeting ID: 922 9948 5213
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Breast Cancer Awareness Walk
2021-10-23 11:00 - 13:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Join the WSU Tri-Cities Cougs LEAD Club for a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk on campus! Saturday, October 23, 2021 | 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Begin at the SUB and walk the trail behind campus.

Wear Your Pride and Pride Parade
2021-10-28 14:00 - 17:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion in your Pride attire for a parade walk across campus. The parade will start in the Floyd courtyard (directly outside the Floyd Atrium) and will continue across campus before ending at the MOSAIC Center. Pizza will be served in the MOSAIC Center upon completion of the parade. Thursday, Oct. 28
2:00 p.m.
Start in Floyd courtyard

Student Engagement Hub
2021-11-02 08:00 - 20:00 | CIC 120, WA, United States
The Student Engagement HUB is to give students and the Tri-Cities community access to in-person voter registration, provide voter registration materials, and ballots for the 2021 Election. This HUB is strictly non-partisan. 10presence points

Día de los Muertos
2021-11-02 12:00 - 15:00 | SUB 120, WA, United States
Bring your favorite foods, framed images, and other items of loved ones who have passed to contribute to the altars. Enjoy tamales, art activities, and learn the importance and history of this celebration. Tuesday, November 2, 2021 | 12 p.m. – 3 p.m.
SUB 120

COVID-19 and Mental Health | An Invisible Disability
2021-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | East Auditorium at WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Join WSU Tri-Cities for a students and staff panel facilitated by a WSU faculty member as we discuss the intersections and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health, and disabilities. You will hear personal experiences, as well as many of the WSU Tri-Cities support services being offered for students through this time. We will also hear from a representative from Lourdes Crisis Center — a local crisis services community support resource.
This event is presented by Access Services, Counseling Services, and the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion.
This event is taking place in-person and online through Zoom. Register for event

Coffee with the Chancellor
2022-01-10 09:00 - 09:30 | SUB Coffee Shop, WA, United States
Have coffee with the Chancellor!
Meet the Chancellor, ask questions and get a free drink voucher!

DIY Coping Skills Toolbox
2022-01-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Floyd Atrium, WA, United States
Visit the Floyd Atrium and participate in a DIY Coping Skills Toolbox Workshop.

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]

Pride Flag Raising
2022-10-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Elson S. Floyd Building, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion in kickstarting Outober with the raising of the pride flag on campus. Tuesday, October 4th
Noon – 1 p.m.
Floyd Main Entrance

Working with Disabilities: Resource and Networking Fair
2022-10-04 15:30 - 17:00 | CIC 120, WA, United States
Did you know that October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month? WSU Tri-Cities Access Services and Career Services will be hosting the Working with Disabilities: Resource and Networking Fair to give students and the community an opportunity to network. Tuesday, October 4th
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
CIC 120

WSU Visiting Writers Series
2022-10-04 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. Roger Reeves Roger Reeves is the author of Best Barbarian (W.W. Norton & Co., 2022), which Tracy K. Smith called “a revelation and a form of reparation,” and King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), a Library Journal Best Poetry Book of the year, and winner of the Larry Levis Reading Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and a John C. Zacharis First Book Award. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Tin House, among others. He was awarded a 2013 NEA Fellowship, Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation in 2008, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, two Bread Loaf Scholarships, an Alberta H. Walker Scholarship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, two Cave Canem Fellowships and a Whiting Award. Tuesday, October 4 | 6 P.M. Watch live on YouTube! Sam Roxas-Chua Sam Roxas-Chua 姚 (Yao) is a transracial/transcultural adopted person. He is the author of Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Echolalia in Script, Fawn Language, and the podcast Dear Someone Somewhere, an audio-journal project. His open-form calligraphy, artworks, and writing have appeared in various journals and galleries. Sam is a poet in the periphery, a multimedia artist, field recordist, and an amateur radio operator. He’s read for PEN International, city government events, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Portland Chinatown Museum. Poet Tyehimba Jess describes Sam’s poems as “surreal yet rooted in palpable color and history … it transcends oceans, blends geographies, and bleeds a multitongued heritage for us to better find ourselves.” Tuesday, October 25 | 5 P.M. Watch live on YouTube!

Fall 2022 Career & Internship Fair
2022-10-13 11:00 - 15:00 | Consolidated Information Center at WSU Tri-Cities, 2770 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Washington State University Tri-Cities, Columbia Basin College and Washington Workforce Portal have partnered to provide employers with an opportunity to meet with students, alumni and community members from the greater Tri-Cities area. Attend to find your internship opportunity or future job!
If you have any questions or need assistance, please email tricities.careers@wsu.edu. Registration is required to attend this event.
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Cougs at the Pumpkin Patch
2022-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Country Mercantile, 232 Crestloch Rd, Pasco, WA, 99301, United States
m Join the MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion and Counseling Services at the pumpkin patch! All WSU students, staff, faculty, alumni, friends, family, and pets are welcome! Admission is $11.95 + tax, 2 years and under are free, and Senior and Military receive a $2 discount. Saturday, October 15th
2 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Country Mercantile

Lei Making and Welcome Gift Creating
2022-11-28 15:00 - 17:00 | Floyd 140, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Create welcome gifts for our visitors with gathered native plant materials with Professor Michelle Brown. Snacks will be provided. Monday, November 28th
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Floyd 140
