WSU Tri-Cities

Distinguished Scholarship Workshop: Fulbright
2016-01-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Fulbright awards are one-year study abroad grants for individually designed research projects. All students interested in applying this year must attend one of the Fulbright workshops. (Students who plan to graduate in May, 2016, or have already graduated are eligible to apply.) Scholarship applications are due to WSU on August 22, 2016.
This workshop is hosted by the Office of Distinguished Scholarships on the WSU Pullman campus and WSU Tri-Cities students participate via video conference.
Contact the Dr. Kate McAteer, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at WSU Tri-Cities, for more information.

Writing for Scholarships - It's not as bad as you think
2016-01-19 14:00 - 15:00 | West 240
You know that you need to apply for scholarships and that there is a WSU online scholarship that your being encouraged to apply for. If you don’t know where to start, have applied before and not received anything or just want to improve your application skills then this is the workshop for you. Dr. Beretta and Keri Lobdell team up to provide an interactive and informative 50 minute workshop that will help you get “FREE” money for your college education. Come prepared to interact and learn – this workshop is one you don’t want to miss.

Martin Luther King, J.r. Day
2016-01-18 08:00 - 17:00 | WA
campus closed

Math Placement Re-Assessment
2016-01-15 09:00 - 11:00, 2015-12-18 09:00 - 12:00 | 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.

Distinguished Scholarships Workshop: Rhodes, Mitchell, Marshall, Gates, Cambridge
2016-01-14 15:30 - 17:00 | West 260
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.

Spring 2016 Orientation
2016-01-08 10:00 - 17:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Spring 2016 Orientation is mandatory for all incoming freshman and transfer students. Be sure to register for orientation here: https://tricities.wsu.edu/orientation/ and check your email for more details! The orientation staff will communicate with incoming students regarding orientation on the email they use to register.

SEB: Black and White
2015-12-18 19:00 - 23:00 | Kennewick Red Lion
Kennewick Red Lion. Time to be announced soon!

Junior Writing Portfolio Timed Essay Exam
2015-12-18 13:00 - 15:00 | 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.

Undergraduate Research Symposium & Art Exhibition
2015-12-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2015-12-15 12:00 - 13:00 | CIC 120
Join students as they showcase their fall 2015 semester projects, internship outcomes, and works of fine art.
All sessions are from 12 to 1 p.m. and are open to the campus community and the public.

Session 1: Tuesday, Dec. 15 (CIC 120)
Session 2: Wednesday, Dec. 16 (CIC 120)
Session 3: Thursday, Dec. 17 (CIC 120 and CIC Art Gallery)

Campus Community Movie: Inside Out
2015-12-11 16:00 - 18:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
The Psychology Club and The Office of Student Life invite you to bring your family and friends watch the movie Inside Out.
There will be a presentation afterward about the psychological aspects presented in the film. Snacks will be provided.

Improve Your Chances for Benjamin's; writing for scholarships workshop
2015-12-11 15:00 - 16:00 | East 205
This workshop is co-hosted by Dr. Beretta and Keri Lobdell of TRiO SSS. We will be discussing the importance of writing good essays for college scholarships and providing tips on how to write them for maximum personal benefit. Dr. Beretta teaches English classes on campus and Keri Lobdell brings her knowledge of sitting on a variety of scholarship review boards to this workshop. Their combination of expertise and a shared passion for helping students should translate into a wonderful workshop that is helpful to students.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Keri Lobdell at kalobdell@tricity.wsu.edu

Scarves for you from WSU
2015-12-11 10:00 - 14:00 | West Atrium, WA, United States
We want all students to come join us in creating their own WSU scarf so we can rock our school spirit all winter long!
Supplies are limited!

Dead Week in Career Development: FREE Coffee and Hot Chocolate for Students
2015-12-11 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-10 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-09 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-08 09:00 - 16:00, 2015-12-07 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

Junior Writing Portfolio Timed Essay Exam
2015-12-11 09:00 - 11:00 | West 131

CIZE fitness class
2015-12-10 16:00 - 17:00 | The Den
The Den is providing CIZE during the week before finals.
What is CIZE?
Don’t call it a workout. But great dancing the way we’ve designed it is hard work. The more you get into it, the more you’ll get out of it. You WILL drip sweat. And you WON’T stop moving. Performing these pulse-pounding, thrilling routines is serious cardiovascular conditioning, core strengthening, and overall muscle toning—all at once.

ASWSUTC: Library Social
2015-12-10 13:00 - 15:30 | WA
ASWSUTC is providing snacks for students in the library

Orchestra Club Performance
2015-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | WA
Orchestra club will be performing in the West Atrium so take a break and come relax with some classical music

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

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.

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.

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
2015-12-06 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

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
