WSU Tri-Cities

Thanksgiving holiday - Campus closed
2021-11-25 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Thanksgiving break - No classes
2021-11-22 - 2021-11-26 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

WSU Tri-Cities Preview Day
2021-11-20 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
WSU Tri-Cities’ Preview Day is a fantastic way to see campus, learn more about academic degree programs offered, get a feel for student life and learn more about student resources.
As part of Preview Day, students receive tours of campus, meet with faculty and staff, learn more about the admissions process and more.
Individuals who attend also receive FREE WSU GIVEAWAYS!
Preview Day
Saturday, Nov. 20
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Student Union Building | WSU Tri-Cities
Sign-up to attend: https://bit.ly/3n6kZmo
There is no cost to attend. Your family and friends are welcome to join you!

Coug Pride Popcorn Giveaway
2021-11-19 13:00 - 15:00 | SUB, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Show your Coug Pride! Stop by the SUB on Friday, Nov. 19, from 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. wearing WSU gear of any kind to get some FREE popcorn! Go Cougs!!

RFO Forum with Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs
2021-11-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Zoom, WA, United States
A meeting of the RFO to talk with the Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs and the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Academic and Student Affairs. Zoom link

MOSAIC Center Game Night
2021-11-18 15:00 - 17:00 | MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion – Floyd 140, WA, United States
The MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion welcomes students to join our Game Night!
Thursday, Nov. 18
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Floyd 140
Students will get to know each other, compete, and play a variety of games. Food and drinks will be provided to all event attendees. While games will be provided, feel free to bring your own for us to play. If you have questions or concerns, please contact tricities.mosaic@wsu.edu.

SEB's Thanksgiving Feast
2021-11-18 11:00 - 14:00 | SUB, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
SEB’s Thanksgiving Feast is back at the SUB! Feast on traditional foods and bingo with prizes while enjoying our musical guest Jeff Peterson!
Thursday, November 18
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Student Union Building!
Free for all students to enjoy before break!

The Zen Den
2021-11-18 09:30 - 10:00 | Floyd 136, WA, United States
Join Sylvia from Counseling Services as we practice mindfulness and go through a morning stretching routine to help you embrace the day! It’s the same as the original Zen Den, but now it happens on Thursday too!

Academic Program Info Night - Education
2021-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States
Explore your passions and start developing a vision for your future. Meet faculty and students from the programs that interest you most. Learn about the application process and next steps.
All info nights take place from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. in Collaboration Hall
Attend as many as you like
Free and open to all

Tuesday, Nov. 2
Health—Psychology, Pre-health and Nursing
If you have a passion for helping others and solving problems, a career in the health sector may be a good match.
SIGN-UP

Thursday, Nov. 4
Business
Get the theoretical knowledge and applied skills you need to put your business degree to work. WSU’s business programs are ranked among the top in the country.
SIGN-UP

Wednesday, Nov. 10
Liberal Arts
Engage with broad ideas and big questions, and get the critical thinking and communication skills you need to prepare you for the opportunities and challenges of our diverse community and world.
SIGN-UP

Tuesday, Nov. 16
Education
Prepare for a career in teaching, educational administration and other professions in the field of education.
SIGN-UP

Tuesday, Nov. 30
Sciences (including Wine Science)
From science labs to internships and practicums, you’ll get hands-on, real-world learning opportunities that lead to great jobs.
SIGN-UP

Thursday, Dec. 2
Engineering and Computer Science
Do you have a knack for math, are interested in tech and have a fascination with how things are built and work? Engineering and computer science could be a great fit. The Tri-Cities is a top destination for careers in engineering and computer science.
SIGN-UP

Thankful for Your Presence!
2021-11-16 13:00 - 15:00 | SUB, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Come learn about Coug Presence and enjoy some Thanksgiving treats!

Academic Program Info Night - Liberal Arts
2021-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States

Academic Program Info Night - Business
2021-11-04 18:00 - 19:30 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States

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

Feminist / Queer Dialogue Series
2021-11-03 16:30 - 17:30 | Zoom, WA, United States
The English Graduate Organization & The Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality present the Fall 2021 Feminist / Queer Dialogue Series! Please join us for our Fall 2021 panel where WGSS affiliate faculty member Dr. Tanja Burkhard will present on her latest research. Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Dr. Tanka Burkhard, “Toward Transnational Black Feminist Inquiry in Qualitative Research” Zoom Link

Academic Program Info Night - Psychology, Pre-Health and Nursing
2021-11-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Collaboration Hall, WA, United States

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

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

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

President's Town Hall
2021-10-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom, WA, United States
Wednesday, Oct. 27
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. via Zoom
Webinar ID: 985 6393 3618 Passcode: [REDACTED]
The traditional annual series provides faculty, staff and students throughout the WSU system with the opportunity to hear from and engage with university leaders.
This year’s event includes a change in the traditional format. In advance of the scheduled town halls, participants are asked to view a 20-minute recorded presentation featuring WSU President Kirk Schulz and Provost and Executive Vice President and Pullman Chancellor Designate Elizabeth Chilton sharing WSU’s significant advancements, achievements and developments made by the university in the last year.
The launch of the new Workday system, as well as updates on WSU’s fiscal health, enrollment and philanthropy, are discussed. There’s also an overview of the university’s expanding research portfolio and its efforts to better meet diversity, equity and inclusion needs. WSU efforts to manage budget and other challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic also are highlighted.
Members of the WSU community have the opportunity to submit questions ahead of each town hall by filling out an online form.

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.

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]

WSU Tri-Cities and Columbia Basin College Virtual Career Fair
2021-10-20 10:00 - 14:00 | Handshake, WA, United States
Columbia Basin College and WSU Tri-Cities are having a virtual Career Fair! Columbia Basin College is partnering with WSU Tri-Cities on October 20, 2021 from 10 am to 2 pm. Join us on Handshake to meet recruiters and learn about opportunities available at companies looking for students like you. This is the perfect opportunity to connect with your future employer and get recruited for your next career opportunity. Join here!

Deadline for state employees to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated or have an exemption on file
2021-10-18 | WA, United States
Now that there is an FDA-approved COVID-19 vaccine, personal exemptions are no longer valid or accepted. However, exemptions are still accepted for religious or medical reasons.
Individuals should abide by the timelines for submitting proof of COVID-19 vaccination or religious or medical exemptions.
Employees must be fully vaccinated or have obtained a medical or religious exemption by Monday, Oct. 18.
* Student employees must also submit their vaccination information via Workday.
Where to submit:
Workday
Instructions for submitting vaccination info in Workday

Deadline for students with personal exemption to submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination or other exemption
2021-10-18 | WA, United States
Students with a COVID-19 vaccination personal exemption currently on file must provide proof of full vaccination or request a religious or medical exemption by Monday, Oct. 18.
Where to submit:
Cougar Health Services
Workday (student employees, only)

Education Summit
2021-10-16 08:30 - 15:30 | CIC 120
Saturday, Oct. 16
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Consolidated Information Center (CIC) 120

Join the WSU Tri-Cities College of Education for the 2021 Education Summit for Teachers and Administrators!
Choose from several sessions. Gain six clock hours. Also enjoy lunch and a keynote presentation.
Sessions:

STEM Education
Culturally-Sustaining Pedagogy
Social and Emotional Learning

Sponsored by STCU. Hosted by the WSU Tri-Cities College of Education.
Register: tricities.wsu.edu/stcu-register | Cost: $15 (free for students)

RFO General Assembly - Fall 2021
2021-10-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Zoom, WA, United States
This is a general assembly of the RFO for the fall 2021 semester. Zoom link

APAC Monthly Meeting
2021-10-14 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom, WA, United States
APAC regular meetings are scheduled for the second Thursday of each month from 9:00 -10:30 am. For the 2020 – 2021 year our meetings will be held remotely via Zoom. We have special presentations for each meeting! All AP staff members are invited to attend.
Meeting URL: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/571015013?pwd=[REDACTED]

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.

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

Latinx Professional Panel
2021-09-30 14:00 - 15:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
The panel will feature local Latinx professionals that discuss honoring identity and culture in the workplace, the impact of discrimination and systemic injustice and identify-based resources for professionals. The panel will be followed by a question and answer session with students. The event is hosted by the WSU Tri-Cities MOSAIC Center for Student Inclusion, WSU Tri-Cities TRIO Student Success Programs and the Tri-Cities Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Thursday, Sept. 30 | 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | WSU Tri-Cities East Auditorium (East 266)
