WSU Tri-Cities

Build Your Own Stress Ball
2015-11-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | West Atrium, WA, United States
Data tells us that the period between Halloween and Thanksgiving is the most stressful part of fall semester for college students. Join the Psychology Club to ease your mind during these most stressful days!

First Annual Collective Community Clean Up of Bateman Island
2015-11-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Bateman Island (Columbia Park Trail Wye Park), 1600 Columbia Park Trail, Richland, WA, 99352, United States
The Environmental Club at WSU Tri-Cities is proud to announce our First Annual Collective Community Clean Up of Bateman Island
Please join the WSU TC Environmental Club and many other like-minded community groups in the Tri-Cities. We will be picking up trash! Please bring gloves, snacks, and a re-fillable water bottle…

Admissions Open House
2015-11-14 10:00 - 13:00 | West Entrance
The Office of Admissions will be hosting an Open House on Saturday, November 14 from 10 am to 1 pm. By attending our Open House students can learn about the programs we offer, how to apply for admission, how to pay for college and what student life is like at WSU Tri-Cities. Attendees will hear from students and meet with staff as they explore campus, learn about student life and find answers to all of their questions. Students can RSVP TODAY! For more information go to tricities.wsu.edu/admission/openhouse.

SEB Rollarena
2015-11-14 17:00 - 19:00 | Rollarena, 849 Stevens Drive, Richland

Dissertation Defense: Heather Ireland
2015-11-16 14:00 - 15:30 | West 224
Heather Ireland, candidate for an Educational Leadership, Ed.D., will defend her dissertation: “Disrupting Deficit Ideologies that Impact Learning for English Language Learners: An Elementary Principal’s Role.”
Her dissertation advisor is Dr. Michele Acker-Hocevar, Professor and Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.

Junior Writing Portfolio Timed Essay Exam
2015-11-17 09:00 - 11:00 | West 133
The Junior Writing Portfolio is a mid-career diagnostic to determine if students’ writing abilities have advanced in ways that can handle the writing demands of upper-division courses and courses in their major.
Successful completion of the Junior Writing Portfolio during the junior year is a requirement for graduation. To meet the requirement, students must take a timed essay exam and submit a packet of three graded papers.
Registration is required for the timed essay exam.

Healthy Living to Improve Academics - workshop
2015-11-17 10:00 - 11:00 | East 205
This is part 7 of an 8 week workshop series. It is not required that you have attended any previous workshops to attend this one. More skills will be attained the more workshops you attend.
-How important is sleep? Can’t I just catch up?
-Does nutrition really matter?
-I don’t have time to exercise; I’ll do that after I graduate

Career Development Workshop: LinkedIn and Social Media Management
2015-11-17 11:00 - 12:00 | W240
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop focuses on building your online presence using LinkedIn, how to create a LinkedIn profile, learning networking skills to grow your online professional networks, and connecting with employers.
All workshop times are 11:00 a.m. to Noon
Locations: West 240 (Tuesdays) and West 231 (Wednesdays)
All workshops are FREE and open to WSU Tri-Cities students only. No RSVP needed.
Food available during the workshop. Win prizes!
Can’t make it to a workshop? Get an individual appointment to speak to a Career Coach!
Career Development, West 140, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

Positively 3 days (a student led conversational art piece created by students for students)
2015-11-17 11:00 - 13:00 | West Courtyard
Positively 3 Days is a 3 day event promoting positivity on campus, it will be a tri-dacted painting the students will be invited to join in promoting positivity within themselves by creating art on canvas. This dialogical event will be placed in the courtyard, November 17, 18, 19 from 11 am to 1 pm. Each day will have a different theme but the ending result of the three days will be a cohesive art piece.

IEEE Seminar: The End of Helium-3 As We Know It?
2015-11-17 17:30 - 20:00 | CIC 120/120A
SPEAKER: Dr. Richard T. Kouzes, PNNL
TOPIC ABSTRACT: Within the last decade, the amount of available 3He has become limited, while the demand has significantly increased, especially for science and national security applications. The largest demand for 3He is in gas proportional counters for neutron detection. No other currently available detection technology offers the stability, sensitivity, and gamma/neutron discrimination of 3He neutron tubes. Such neutron detectors are used in many applications including neutron scattering research, international and homeland security, defense applications, and well logging. The limited supply has curtailed use of 3He; therefore, alternative neutron detection technologies must be implemented. There are additional uses of 3He for medical imaging (MRI lung imaging), targets, missile guidance, 3He-4He dilution refrigerators, and condensed matter research.
The production of 3He from tritium decay has declined as the nuclear weapons stockpile has been reduced, resulting in a lowered need for tritium to maintain the stockpile. The worldwide, steady state production of 3He is about 10-20 kliter/y, while the demand is much higher. This has driven the search for alternate neutron detection technologies to replace the use of 3He.
One of the two large uses for 3He has been in radiation portal monitors deployed for homeland security both domestically and internationally. This use is no longer permitted by U.S. government policy. Thus, an alternative had to be found and deployed over a short period of time. The nuclear physics community successfully met this challenge. Nuclear safeguards and neutron scattering science are no the challenges being addressed. This talk will provide an overview of the 3He supply problem and the application of neutron detectors.
This work was supported by U.S. DOE, U.S. DOD, U.S. DHS, and PNNL.
Pizza and soft drinks available at 5:30 social time, seminar 6-8pm.

Career Development Workshop: Finding Internships and Jobs
2015-11-18 11:00 - 12:00 | W231
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop focuses on learning about the free tools and resources available to you on our campus to learn about internship and job search strategies, where to find openings, and the best practices used in applying for them.
All workshop times are 11:00 a.m. to Noon
Locations: West 240 (Tuesdays) and West 231 (Wednesdays)
All workshops are FREE and open to WSU Tri-Cities students only. No RSVP needed.
Food available during the workshop. Win prizes!
Can’t make it to a workshop? Get an individual appointment to speak to a Career Coach!
Career Development, West 140, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

Women in STEM Town Hall
2015-11-18 16:30 - 18:00 | East Auditorium at WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Academic Affairs, in partnership with WA STEM and the Women’s Funding Alliance, is hosting a Women in STEM town hall meeting. This is one of four events that will be held across the state.
Liz Vivian, Executive Director of the Women’s Funding Alliance, will act as moderator. Guest speakers will include a WSU alumna, a STEM intern, and women from engineering and health care.
The event is open to faculty, staff, and members of the community.
For more information, click here.

Active Shooter | 3 Presentations
2015-11-19 10:30 - 12:00 | WA
Active Shooter Presentation
Assistant Chief Steve Hanson from the WSU Police Department will be on campusTODAY to conduct presentations on how students, staff, and faculty can respond to an “active shooter” situation. Presentations will include discussion of response options, a video presentation, and an opportunity for questions.
Sessions will be held in the East Auditorium at 10:30 AM, 1:00 PM, and 2:30 PM.
Additional sessions will be scheduled in the spring semester, for those who are unable to attend.

Scott Tomren
Environmental Health & Safety Coordinator
509-372-7163

Writing Placement Exam
2015-11-19 14:00 - 16:00 | East 207
To meet graduation requirements, all students must pass an English composition course. The writing placement exam is designed to help you fulfill this requirement by identifying the course that best matches your skills.
The writing placement exam is administered in a two-hour session. You will write two essays, one argumentative and the other self-reflective.
Registration is required.

Thanksgiving Day
2015-11-26 08:00 - 20:00 | WA
Campus will be closed. Happy Thanksgiving!

Campus Closed
2015-11-27 08:00 - 17:00 | WA
Campus will be closed.

Insight Meditation workshop
2015-12-01 10:00 - 11:00 | East 205
This is part 2 of the meditation workshop series. It is not imperative that you attended part 1 in order to participate and benefit from attending part 2.
“The meditation workshops will include an introduction to the background and benefits of mindfulness meditation and guided practice of mindfulness meditation applied to the breath and body. Another mindfulness meditation technique will be introduced that can be very helpful in opening to difficult physical or emotional sensations.”
This is open to the entire campus community to attend.

Career Development Workshop: Negotiating Salary and Benefits (Special Panel)
2015-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | W240
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop will focus on how to navigate your first job offer with a special panel of Human Resource professionals.
All workshop times are 11:00 a.m. to Noon
Locations: West 240 (Tuesdays) and West 231 (Wednesdays)
All workshops are FREE and open to WSU Tri-Cities students only. No RSVP needed.
Food available during the workshop. Win prizes!
Can’t make it to a workshop? Get an individual appointment to speak to a Career Coach!
Career Development, West 140, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

Career Development Workshop: Interview Prep
2015-12-02 11:00 - 12:00 | W231
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop focuses on acing the interview and landing the job. Learn what to do before, during and after an interview. Learn how to answer tough questions and make the best professional impression.
All workshop times are 11:00 a.m. to Noon
Locations: West 240 (Tuesdays) and West 231 (Wednesdays)
All workshops are FREE and open to WSU Tri-Cities students only. No RSVP needed.
Food available during the workshop. Win prizes!
Can’t make it to a workshop? Get an individual appointment to speak to a Career Coach!
Career Development, West 140, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

Writing Placement Exam
2015-12-04 09:00 - 11:00 | CIC 210, 212, 214

CE Seminar: Rivers in Human-Nature Dialogue: An Earth System Modeling Approach
2015-12-04 12:10 - 13:00 | West 133
Abstract: Rivers are vitally bridging the interactions between human and nature on the one hand. On the other hand, rivers are an essential linkage in the regional and global atmosphere-land-ocean cycles of water, energy and biogeochemistry. However, there is a lack or under representation of rivers within most of the earth system models (formerly known as climate models) including the extensively used Community Earth System Model (CESM). This talk presents the research activities at PNNL centering on the understanding and representing riverine dynamics of water, energy and biogeochemistry at the regional and global scales. In particular, the focus will be on a physically based riverine modeling framework which is now embedded within CESM and coupled to a water management module. The insights distilled from the model results will be discussed, followed by the limitations and future directions of this modeling endeavor.
Speaker: Hong-Yi Li earned his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Master and Bachelor’ degrees both from Tsinghua University, China. He joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in 2010 as a postdoctoral researcher and is now a research scientist. Trained as a watershed hydrologist, His current research focus is to improve the representation of hydrologic processes in Earth system models from three major aspects: 1) Improving diagnosis of earth system modeling behavior by systematically introducing meaningful signatures revealed from watershed hydrology; 2) Improving parameterization of key hydrologic processes in earth system modeling, 3) Adding/enhancing the representation of human systems in earth system modeling. As such he still maintains his interest in watershed hydrology, but mainly from the aspect of bridging watershed hydrology and earth system modeling. Another current research focus is to decipher the behavior and functions of aquatic biogeochemical systems under climate and human-induced changes primarily within the earth system modeling framework.
Speaker: Dr. Hong-Yi Li, PNNL

Dead Week in Career Development: FREE Coffee and Hot Chocolate for Students
2015-12-06 09:00 - 16:00 | West 140
Career Development is the “DARK SIDE” for the Dead Week Star Wars theme in collaboration with the Office of Student Life.
Keep calm and use the “FORCE” from Career Development to get through Dead Week.
“SITH” with us and warm up with a cup of FREE coffee or hot chocolate.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

Survival Bags
2015-12-07 09:00 - 11:45 | West Entrance
Office of Student Life will be handing out 100 survival bags on Monday and Tuesday of dead week. They will be filled with goodies for students!

Dead Week in Career Development: FREE Coffee and Hot Chocolate for Students
2015-12-07 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-08 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-09 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-10 09:00 - 16:00 | West 140
Career Development is the “DARK SIDE” for the Dead Week Star Wars theme in collaboration with the Office of Student Life.
Keep calm and use the “FORCE” from Career Development to get through Dead Week.
“SITH” with us and warm up with a cup of FREE coffee or hot chocolate.

CAREER DEVELOPMENT, West 140, (509) 372-7600, careers@tricity.wsu.edu

OSL: Oxygen Bar
2015-12-07 11:00 - 15:00 | West Atrium, WA, United States
Office of Student of Life is presenting an Oxygen Bar for students the week before finals.
What is an Oxygen Bar?
Imagine walking up to a bar unlike any other you have experienced and sitting down to enjoy something the body thrives on. An oxygen bar is exactly that. It is a bar where people can breathe in oxygen-enriched air for recreational use. In a sit-down session that can last up to 20 minutes, you can breathe in 4 to 5 times the amount of oxygen than is present in normal air. The result? You feel energized, refreshed, and more mentally alert.

Innovative Instruction Series: Open Topic
2015-12-07 12:00 - 13:00 | West 247
New full-time faculty are invited to an open session to discuss their accomplishments and challenges of fall semester.

ASWSUTC: Free Massages
2015-12-09 12:40 - 16:30 | West Atrium, WA, United States
ASWSUTC has arranged for free massages for students during the week before finals
