WSU Tri-Cities

Women's networking event: "Her Story" A timeline of the Women who changed America - Author Ms. Charlotte S. Waisman, Ph.D.
2015-11-12 05:00 - 18:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354-1671, United States
WSU Tri-Cities and the CHPRC Women’s Network will Co-host a women’s network evening event.
This year’s event will feature Ms. Charlotte S. Waisman, PhD. who is the co-author of “Her Story” A TIMELINE OF THE WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICA (see the link for more information). www.herstoryatimeline.com Ms. Waisman will provide an overview of the book.
The November 12th women’s networking event will consist of a reception and book overview. Both will be held at the WSU Tri-Cities East Auditorium.
The reception will be from 5:00 -5:30pm in the foyer outside the East Auditorium and the book overview will begin at 5:30pm in the East Auditorium
Ms. Waisman will be on hand to sign books and the book can be obtained via Amazon and other book stores.
There will be a limited number of books on hand at the event for purchase.

IEEE Seminar: Energy and its Capture on a Global Scale Using Solar Energy
2015-11-12 03:00 - 16:00 | West 240
PRESENTER: Dr. John Roberts, Silane & Silane Derivatives Scientist, Research & Development – REC Silicon
ABSTRACT: Solar electrical power generation continues to be a promising contender for the displacement of petroleum-based electrical power
on a meaningful scale, in terms of both the available supply of energy and the cost and potential scale of implementation. Solargrade
silicon, the primary commodity required for solar panel construction, was once made only in energy-intensive batch processes,
imposing substantial cost constraints. This material can now be produced in significant quantities in an energy-efficient
continuous process, a truly disruptive technology that will impact the economics of solar electrical power generation in a fundamental
way. Dr Roberts will review this silicon production technology along with its competitors, and place this into the context of
solar energy as a power grid component.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
WSU Tri-Cities — 2710 Crimson Way, Richland WA
West Building, Room 240
3PM to 4PM

Veterans Day
2015-11-11 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Due to Holiday, Campus will be closed.

Distinguished Scholarship Workshop: Rhodes, Mitchell, Marshall, Gates,
2015-11-10 15:30 - 17:00 | West 210
This interactive workshop will review the application components for each of the UK graduate fellowships. All students interested in applying for any of these awards this year must attend one of the UK workshops. These scholarship applications are due to WSU for review by Feb. 29, 2016.
This workshop is hosted by the Office of Distinguished Scholarships on the WSU Pullman campus and Tri-Cities students participate via video conference.
Contact Dr. Kate McAteer, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at WSU Tri-Cities, for more information.

Career Development Workshop: e-Etiquette
2015-11-10 11:00 - 12:00 | W240
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop will teach students the professional expectations for proper email and social media behavior.
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

Reflection for Optimum Performance - workshop
2015-11-10 10:00 - 11:00 | East 205
This is part 5 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.
-Iterative process
-Concept map vs. outline
-Plan your work and then work your plan
-Everything with a side of “reflection”

Lecture: What was it like at Hanford in 1947?
2015-11-10 05:30 - 20:00 | West 230
Harold Copeland, ISA Member since 1949 & former Richland section President in the 1960’s
Please RSVP to brad.carlberg@bsc-engineering.com by Monday, November 9th.
Social at 5:30pm, seminar from 6-8pm.

Home Soccer Game
2015-11-07 15:00 - 16:30 | Hanford Field
Men’s Soccer will be playing their first home game of the season against Central Washington University. Admission is free and free hot dogs to the first 100 students.

Rugby Home Game
2015-11-07 13:00 - 14:30 | Crimson Field, 2710 Crimson Way., Richland, WA, United States
Men’s Rugby will be playing their first home game of the season against University of Idaho. Admission is free and free hot dogs to the first 100 students.

LGBT Panel
2015-11-06 13:00 - 15:00 | West Atrium, WA, United States
Washington State University Tri-Cities will welcome several representatives and advocates of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to participate in a panel discussion on LGBT issues from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. Nov. 6 in the West Atrium on campus.

The panel will feature five speakers who affiliate with or advocate for the LGBT community:

Anna Southern is a biologist and anthropologist who affiliates with the LGBT community as a transgender woman.

Jefferson Coulter is the senior attorney with the Pasco office of the Northwest Justin Project. He is also on the board of directors for the QLaw Foundation, which seeks to educate the public and courts about LGBT legal issues.

Cat Wesley is a history teacher who affiliates with the LGBT community as a lesbian woman. She is an active member with Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).

Reverend Keri Lobdell is president of the local PFLAG chapter and has been a straight ally for more than six years. A member of the Progressive Christian Alliance, she currently serves as a retention counselor and advisor for TRiO Student Support Services at WSU Tri-Cities.

The panel is presented in conjunction with the Anthropology 395 course “Contemporary Human Issues,” which is taught by Mansperger.

Math Placement Re-Assessment
2015-11-06 08:30 - 11:30 | West 145
To meet graduation requirements, all students must pass an approved Math course. The Math placement exam is designed to help you fulfill this requirement by identifying the course that best matches your skills.
After the first assessment, all re-assessments must be proctored. You may retake the placement assessment up to four times. Before the first re-assessment, you are required to spend 3 hours in the Prep and Learning module and an additional 5 hours in the Prep and Learning module before the second re-assessment.
Registration is required.

Tri-City Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours
2015-11-04 16:00 - 18:30 | CIC 120/120A
WSU Tri-Cities is hosting “Business After Hours” for the Tri-City Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, November 5th.
The event will be held in CIC Room 120 and 120A with a reception and brief program occurring between the hours of 4 and 6 o’clock.
This is a “drop in” event, and will have an ebb and flow of attendees. At approximately 5:15 we will host a program with the Chancellor welcoming the group and giving a brief overview of the campus and vision for the future. Please bring business cards and any materials you would like to have on display for guests to review and/or take home.
Additional information can be found at the following link:
http://web.tricityregionalchamber.com/events/November-Business-After-Hours-1512/details

Career Development Workshop: Applying for Graduate/Professional School
2015-11-04 11:00 - 12:00 | W231
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop focuses on learning when, how, what to do to apply to graduate and professional schools. Get tips on the application process, find the right school, and how to apply to competitive programs.
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: Office Etiquette
2015-11-03 11:00 - 12:00 | W240
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop will provide students with practical tips to office etiquette. Learn how to present yourself professionally in an office environment, in business meetings, and appropriate office attire.
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

Speak to Anyone - workshop
2015-11-03 10:00 - 11:00 | East 205
This workshop is part 4 of an 8 week series. It is not required that you have attended any of the previous workshops in the series to attend the final four sessions. Attendees will gain important skills in emotional intelligence by attending any number of these workshops. The more workshops you attend, the more skills you gain.
-Rapport and relationships
-Keys to effective communication
-The art of Listening
-Feedback

Operation Thank You; Military Care Package Drive
2015-11-02 08:00 - 2015-11-15 17:00 | Veterans Office; West 203, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99352, United States

Presentation: ‘Disease detective’ recounts Ebola outbreak
2015-10-30 13:00 - 14:00 | East Auditorium at WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Emily Pieracci returns to her hometown to talk about her work “Stalking Ebola: A Disease Detective’s Journey through Sierra Leone” at 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in the East Auditorium at Washington State University Tri-Cities.
An epidemic intelligence service officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, she is a 1998 graduate of Hanford High and a 2009 veterinary medicine alumna of WSU.
As one of the CDC’s initial responders in summer 2014, she traced the Ebola outbreak across Sierra Leone as she taught infection prevention strategies to Ebola workers. She returned to the country in December 2014 to continue the fight against the disease.
Pieracci earned a bachelor’s degree from Western Washington University in 2002 and a master’s of public health from Johns Hopkins University in 2014.

Dia de los Muertos
2015-10-30 11:00 - 13:00 | West Atrium
The World Research Club, Belly Dancing Club, and Wazzu Records are hosting a large Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event to introduce Hispanic Culture to the campus through this Mexican Holiday.

TRiO Graduate school and Cultural Enrichment Trip
2015-10-30 08:30 - 23:00 | EWU and Spokane
This trip is for TRiO Students only
TRiO will be providing the transportation for FREE – We will be heading to Eastern Washington University to look at their Graduate programs in the areas of: Social Work, K-12 school counseling, Psychology counseling, Urban planning and public health administration. This will take us to their Cheney and downtown Spokane campus locations where we will meet with faculty and students from the programs, discuss admission requirements and financial aid options as well as get campus tours.
Immediately following this trip we will attend the Chinese Lantern Festival in downtown Spokane for the evening. Here is a link to more information about the festival; http://www.spokanelanternfestival.com/
Lunch will need to be purchased by the student and we’ll eating on campus at EWU – suggested amount to bring $10.00
The festival and dinner are FREE to students – prices are covered by TRiO.
Seating is limited; so reserve your spot early or risk being put on the wait list

Junior Writing Portfolio Timed Essay Exam
2015-10-28 14:00 - 16:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
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.

Chancellor Polytechnic Forum
2015-10-28 13:30 - 14:30 | West Atrium
ASWSUTC is hosting a forum with the Chancellor to learn about Polytechnic Experience. Some issues discussed will be understanding the definition of “polytechnic” and how this transition will affect our campus. The forum is open to any questions students may have for the Chancellor. So, come ask and learn!

Career Development Workshop: Spooktacular Resume
2015-10-28 11:00 - 12:00 | W231
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop will provide students with practical tips to enhance your resume to compete in today’s tough job market.
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: Screamin' Cover Letter
2015-10-27 11:00 - 12:00 | W240
As part of the Fall 2015 Career Development Office Workshop Series, this workshop offers students with the tips and tools to write a powerful cover letter to entice employers to read your resume.
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

ASWSUTC Senate Meeting
2015-10-27 08:00 - 09:00 | West 136 D
ASWSUTC ‘s weekly Senate Meeting is every Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. and is open to all students to come listen and voice their opinion about current university matters.

Club Sports Team Night @ Texas Roadhouse
2015-10-27 05:00 - 22:00 | Texas Roadhouse, Kennewick, WA, United States
The WSU Tri-Cities Club Sports teams will receive 10% of proceeds from anyone that eats at Texas Roadhouse and brings our flyer on October 27th.
Please email rj.aubert@tricity.edu or visit West 124 for a copy of the flyer!

SEB: Terror Behind the Screen
2015-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
Limited to 50 students. Meet at Benton County Fair Grounds.

CE Seminar: Metal Organic Frameworks for Removal of Xe/Kr from Nuclear Reprocessing Plants
2015-10-23 12:00 - 13:00 | BSEL 103
Title: “Metal Organic Frameworks for Removal of Xe/Kr from Nuclear Reprocessing Plants”
Abstract: During reprocessing, fission-product noble gases are released when the fuel cladding is breached and any fuel processing is performed. Two of these gases are radioactive xenon (Xe) and krypton (Kr). Although Xe is generated as fission product, by the time the fuel is reprocessed, all the radioactive isotopes have decayed to very low concentrations. Never-the-less, non-radioactive Xe is at a higher concentration than Kr. Krypton has two long-lived isotopes 81Kr [t1/2 = 2.1 x 105 y] and 85Kr [t1/2 = 10.7 y]. Of these, 85Kr is the isotope of regulatory concern and cannot be freely released if fuel younger than roughly 30 y is processed. In an operating reprocessing plant, 85Kr is diluted with process air making its removal difficult because of the low concentrations. The existing technology is cryogenic distillation which is costly and energy consuming. We at PNNL, focused on room temperature separation of Xe and Kr from nuclear reprocessing conditions using novel porous sorbents, which shown to be more effective and cheaper.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Thallapally currently is a scientist working on the development of Hierarchical porous materials for Energy and Environmental applications including gas storage, separation heating and cooling and so on. He is major contributor for DOE – EERE collaborative project with PNNL on crystalline solids for Hydrogen storage applications and played a major role in The Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology (ALL-CRAFT) program on materials for Methane Storage Applications. His work has been highlighted in several external press including Science Editorial Choice and Chemical Engineering News, and Chemical Communications. Dr. Thallapally’s research interests include Carbon Sequestration, nanostructured materials, catalysis, crystallography and crystal engineering.

IEEE Student Chapter: Patent Talk with Keith Grzelak
2015-10-22 18:00 - 19:00 | CIC 120/120A
Joint meeting of the IEEE Richland Section, Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Chapter & INCOSE Cascade Chapter
TOPIC: New Challenges to Patentable Subject Matter and Software Patentability
6:00 PM on Thursday, 22 OCTOBER 2015
Room CIC 120/120A, WSU Tri-Cities, Richland, WA
Pizza and soft drinks available at 5:30 social time
TOPIC ABSTRACT: Recent changes have occurred in how we determine patentable subject matter. IEEE-USA’s intellectual property policy committee (IPC) filed an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court in Alice v. CLS. A decision came down in June 2014 that raises more questions than it answers. The IPC subsequently filed comments to proposed guidance issued from the US Patent Office. The amicus position and comments will be reviewed to provide a summary of the questions that are now raised, and a review of recent interpretations from the Federal Circuit will be summarized. The US Patent Office, in the wake of this decision, has withdrawn many software patents (for which notices of allowance had already been granted), and is currently aggressively issuing rejections for many software and business method patent applications based on patent ineligibility. The office has issued guidelines that are now used by way of example in order to determine subject matter eligibility and recent guidelines will be reviewed.
SPEAKER: Keith Grzelak worked at General Motors and Ford Motor Company as a safety and crashworthiness engineer supporting numerous vehicle platforms. With his employer’s support, he attended law school, became a patent lawyer, and currently represents engineers and scientists. He has worked in many technical areas including electrical, mechanical and medical systems. He has worked for a broad range of entities, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to start-up businesses, including universities and faculty start-up entities.
He is currently a director of Wells St. John PS in Spokane, Washington where he supports technology companies. He is active in teaching courses to STEM workers on technology policy and legal issues.

Executive in Residence Meet and Greet
2015-10-22 17:00 - 18:00 | 2nd Floor of CIC
Come and meet the WSU Tri-Cities Executives in Residence, a group readily available to help you in the classroom by offering subject matter expertise on a variety of subjects including business education, history, environmental science, engineering and more. A brief program will occur at 5:00 PM.

Beginner Yoga Class
2015-10-22 07:15 - 08:15 | The Den
Beginner Yoga Class (AM)
Class will be held every week at 7:15 am in the Den
