WSU Tri-Cities

State of the University Address
2019-03-26 15:10 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
President Schulz highlights the University’s accomplishments of the past 12 months. Q & A and a reception will follow the address.

Current Student Advising
2019-03-26 14:30 - 16:30, 2019-03-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2019-03-21 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-03-19 14:30 - 16:30 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.
Undergraduate Advising
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2710 Crimson Way | Richland, WA 99354-1671
Website: tricities.wsu.edu/advising |Email: advising@tricity.wsu.edu

2019-03-26 14:30 - 16:30 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.
Undergraduate Advising
Washington State University Tri-Cities
2710 Crimson Way | Richland, WA 99354-1671
Website: tricities.wsu.edu/advising |Email: advising@tricity.wsu.edu

Strategic Planning Town Hall
2019-03-25 15:00 - 16:30 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Campus Survey Results
Monday, March 25, 3– 4:30p.m. in East 266 (Auditorium)
Sarah Tragesser, Ph.D., associate professor, and Ray White, MBA, vice chancellor for finance and administration at WSU Tri-Cities, will provide an overview of the campus survey results collected earlier this year on common values, expectations and vision for the campus moving forward. Also joining Dr. Tragesser will be her data analysis team of undergraduate research assistants, Sarah Wright, Eric Mendez and Emma Ballew.
If you would like to learn more about WSU Tri-Cities’ strategic planning process, visit tricities.wsu.edu/strategicplanning.

MME Seminar Series - "How to do a Project" - with Lance Doyle
2019-03-22 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
Abstract
In order to successfully complete a project, there are a number of steps
that must be taken. The goal of this presentation is to help you identify
those steps. The process starts with a concept and goes through initial
production. Lessons learned from over 40 years in the industry are
discussed.
Bio
Lance Doyle
Electronics Engineer/Mfg Engineer
Bruker Nano Analytics
Lance has been doing engineering and design work since 1974 working
for companies with 1 to 4,000+ employees. The products he has been
involved with range from X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometers, Spaceborne
Tape Recorders, weather instrumentation, and robotic tape libraries for
medium to large computer systems. While his focus is in electronics, he
has also done tool and die design. He holds 2 patents for his work in Road
Condition Sensors for snow & ice control.

Campus lecture and discussion - Expert Women Explore The Heavy Burden Of Hanford Cleanup
2019-03-21 17:00 - 20:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Northwest News Network’s Anna King will present her award-winning public radio project Daughters of Hanford at WSU Tri-Cities.
Afterwards, King will moderate a panel discussion with three of those featured expert women. The event starts at 5 p.m., March 21, in WSU Tri-Cities’ East Auditorium.
“These women have intense experiences, great depth of knowledge and funny stories to share about Hanford,” says Anna King, who also appears on WSU’s Northwest Public Broadcasting. “Hanford is a heavy burden that we all inherit and these women’s wisdom is invaluable.”
WSU Tri-Cities, WSU WiSTEM and the Women Chemist Committee of the American Chemical Society, Richland Section, are presenting the entertaining program together.
Daughters is oral histories, portraits and personal archives of women who changed the World War II plutonium production site, and women who were changed by it. The evening’s panel discussion will feature three Daughters of Hanford: retired Washington State Ecology geologist Zelma Maine Jackson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Frannie Smith and retired head of Washington State Ecology’s Hanford program, Jane Hedges.
“Women’s contributions to the Hanford site and the Manhattan Project sites across the country, but especially at Hanford, are unknown,” says Zelma Maine Jackson. “When you think of the nuclear industry you think of men, you never think of women. But more than likely they performed 90 percent of the hard work — the laborious, tedious, number crunching, dictating a letter, making a policy come into effect — it’s always been the mental heavy load carried by women.”
Daughters of Hanford was created in partnership with WSU Tri-Cities, The REACH, and Northwest Public Broadcasting. Daughters is a series, a museum installation and a radio documentary. Daughters was awarded the Washington State Historical Society’s David Douglas award.
“This won’t be a stiff lecture, or a glum chat,” King says about the upcoming event at WSU Tri-Cities. “Bring a young woman or girl and grab a seat for this entertaining evening full of dynamic sound, surprising Northwest stories, poignant moments and laughter.”
Daughters gets its name from nuclear science. “Daughter products” are isotopes formed by radioactive decay of some other isotope. Daughters collaborators include: WSU Tri-Cities’s associate professor of fine arts Doug Gast, Seattle-based photographer Kai-Huei Yau, and newly-minted APM podcast editor Phyllis Fletcher. You can listen to the audio stories and explore the full project and photography at daughtersofhanford.org.

Current Student Advising
2019-03-20 09:00 - 11:00 | CIC 219, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States

Diversity Lecture: On the Power of Memoir: Writing Black Lives Into the Future - Darnell Moore
2019-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | floyd 244, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Diversity Lecture from the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center Speaker Series – On the Power of Memoir: Writing Black Lives Into the Future by Keynote Speaker: Darnell Moore

Current Student Advising
2019-03-18 13:00 - 15:00 | CIC 101R, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Current student advising sessions will occur March 18 through April 11 at WSU Tri-Cities. At these sessions, advisors will work with you to build your course schedules for the 2019/2020 academic year.
Reminder: First Year Students, students who started in the FA 2018 or SPR 2019 term, are required to attend an advising session. At the advising session, advisors will be available to assist you and answer any questions you have.
If this is not your first year at WSU Tri-Cities, you may submit an E-Advising form. To submit this form, please visit the following link: https://wsu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bJF7aQQUKhVrvSt
Questions? Please contact Undergraduate Student Advising.

Pre-retirement seminar
2019-03-13 09:00 - 10:30 | Floyd 209, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Human Resource Services (HRS) will be conducting pre-retirement seminars to assist you with retirement planning. Topics include:
• Retiree Medical, Dental, and Life Insurance Enrollment Processes;
• Medicare and Social Security;
• Voluntary Employee’s Benefit Association Medical Expense Plan (VEBA MEP);
• Annual Leave Payment;
• Voluntary Investment Programs;
• Retirement Income, and;
• Retirement Supplementation for WSURP participants.
These seminars are open to all Department of Retirement System (PERS/TRS/LEOFF) and WSU Retirement Plan (WSURP) participants. You do not need to register to attend, but seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-seated basis.
The seminar will be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, from 9:00 – 10:30 in Floyd

College Planning Day CANCELED
2019-03-12 09:00 - 12:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
College Planning Day has been canceled because of inclement winter weather.

Please contact us if you’d like to schedule a personalized campus tour or groups visit.

Mechanical Engineering Graduate Seminar - "Molecular Insights on Materials Formation from Solution”
2019-03-08 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
See the flyer for more information.

International Women's Day
2019-03-08 12:00 - 13:30 | Floyd Atrium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Students, staff and faculty are invited to join WSU Tri-Cities in a celebration of International Women’s Day on campus.

Picture Books and Social Justice-Diversity Lecture
2019-03-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Floyd 243, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
Join award-winning author and illustrator Duncan Tonatiuh on March 7, 4-5 p.m., to see his livestreamed presentation, “Picture Books and Social Justice.” Tonatiuh will share some of his children’s books and talk about the role children’s literature can play in teaching our youth about social justice issues like immigration. The presentation is great for teachers, social workers, parents, and anyone working in youth programming.

This event will also be available via Global Campus, https://connections.wsu.edu/events-calendar/picture-books-and-social-justice/

RFO Spring General Assembly
2019-03-06 12:00 - 13:00 | CIC 125T, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States

National TRIO Day
2019-03-06 11:00 - 14:00 | Floyd Atrium, 2710 University Dr, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
In honor of National TRIO Day, TRIO Student Support Services is hosting a celebration event next Wednesday March 6, 2019. Leading up to and at the event we will be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to the WSUTC Cougar Cupboard. In addition, our students have been signing up for local volunteer opportunities such as tutoring support at the Family Learning Center, providing workshops at the Kids Engineering Day at Jeffereson Elementary, and offering mentorship for the Dream It, Be It conference.

Overview of National TRIO Day:

On February 24, 1986, a congressional resolution (H. Con. Res. 278) declared that Saturday, February 28, 1986, should be designated as “National TRIO Day” to commemorate the annual achievements of the Federal TRIO programs in communities across the country.
Every year since then, our community has reserved the fourth Saturday in February as National TRIO Day — an opportunity to focus the nation’s “attention on the needs of disadvantaged young people and adults aspiring to improve their lives if they are to become contributing citizens of the country, and to the talent which will be wasted if that investment is not made.”
For many programs, National TRIO Day has become a tradition as it allows students who benefit from the TRIO programs and to give back to their local communities through acts of service.

Please join us next week, and bring a non-perishable food item, in the Atrium beginning at 11:00 am as TRIO Student Support Services celebrates National TRIO Day. There will be guest speakers from PNNL, activities hosted by our students, and light appetizers.

MME Seminar Series: The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Gas Dynamic Shock Waves
2019-03-01 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
This seminar presents a computational investigation of shock-wave structures through a novel
implicit high-order Galerkin finite element Runge–Kutta algorithm. The algorithm induces no spatial
discretization artificial diffusion, relies on cubic and higher-degree elements for an accurate resolution
of the steep shock gradients, uses an implicit time integration for swift convergence to steady states,
and employs original Neumann-type outlet boundary conditions in the form of generalized Rankine
Hugoniot conditions on normal stress and balance of heat flux and deviatoric-stress work per unit time.
Through an innovative approach, the formulation also calculates the shock extent, which is an additional
unknown, and employs the single non dimensional (0, 1) computational domain for the determination
of any shock structure. The algorithm rapidly generates steady shock structures, in at most 150 time
steps for any upstream Mach number considered in this study, in the range 1.05 < M < 10.0. The finite
element discretization is shown to be asymptotically convergent under progressive grid refinements, in
respect of both the H0 and H1 error norms, with an H0 accuracy order as high as 6 and reduction of the
discretization error to the round-off-error threshold of 1 x10-9 with just 420 computational cells and
5th-degree elements. For any upstream Mach number, the computational results are shown to satisfy the
Rankine–Hugoniot conditions, an established requirement for solution reliability.
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Deadline to apply for a Graduate Degree.
2019-03-01 08:00 - 17:00 | WSU Tri-Cities, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
Late fees are applied after this date. Please see Graduate School Deadlines for more information.

Campus budget meeting #2
2019-02-28 11:00 - 12:00 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
Please make arrangements to attend one of the meetings to learn about the campus budget. There are two scheduled meetings to choose from:
Wednesday, February 27, from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. at the East Auditorium, 266
Thursday, February 28, from 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. at the East Auditorium, 266
Here’s a brief agenda for the session…

share our progress towards this year’s budget targets,
provide a preview of next year’s budget outlook,
describe the budget calendar and development process we’ll be using, and
explain how you will participate and stay informed along the way.
Then, stick around as Robin explains the numbers.

CEREO Debate Series Spring 2019 - Tapping the tensions between the science and politics of climate change
2019-02-27 15:10 - 16:30 | Floyd 247, WA, United States
Tapping the tensions between the science and politics of climate change

Climate change poses significant risks to our environmental, societal, and economic well-being. As society attempts to address the complex and interconnected problems of climate change, we face a core problem: scientists have the knowledge, but politicians and social institutions hold the power to exact meaningful solutions. Do climate scientists need to better understand the politics? Or should science stay true to itself and the process of climate change investigations?
Come participate in a discussion with Drs Berger and Stephan on the roles,
responsibilities, and differences between policy and science in driving public
perceptions about climate change.
Dr. Michael Berger is a Clinical Assistant Professor at WSU Vancouver who studies the impact of location and other environmental stressors on marine invertebrates.
Dr. Mark Stephan is an Associate Professor at WSU Vancouver whose research focuses on environmental governance around issues related to climate change policies at the sub-national level.

Professional Development Workshop Series for Juniors and Seniors, Presented by the English Dept.
2019-02-27 15:10 - 16:30 | CIC 210, WA
Resume and Cover Letter Writing Workshop
Students would plan to bring a current resume and cover letter hardcopy or on a laptop to be reviewed.
Work shops are limited to 10-15 participants. Students who attend the workshop on January 30th, will have first priority to attend other workshops in the series.
Registration is required, to register, email Vanessa Cozza@wsu.edu.
Snacks and beverages provided.

Campus budget meeting #1
2019-02-27 14:30 - 15:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354

MME Seminar Series - Vortex-Breakdown and Wall-Separation States in Swirling Flows in Finite-Length Pipes
2019-02-22 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
Abstract
The dynamics of inviscid-limit, incompressible and axisymmetric swirling flows in finite-length, long circular pipes
with varying geometries is studied through global analysis techniques and numerical simulations. The inlet flow is
described by fixed-in-time profiles of the circumferential and axial velocity together with a fixed azimuthal vorticity,
while the outlet flow is characterized by a state with zero radial velocity. A numerical algorithm based on the upwind
finite-difference method for the evolution of the circulation and azimuthal vorticity together with a Poisson solver for
the solution of the stream function in terms of the azimuthal vorticity is developed. The convergence of computed
results with mesh refinement is demonstrated. Moreover, a mathematical analysis that is based on the Squire-Long
equation (SLE) is formulated to identify steady-state solutions of the problem with special conditions to describe
states with separation zones. These solutions include the base columnar flow state, a decelerated flow along the
centerline, an accelerated flow along the centerline, a vortex-breakdown state and a wall-separation state. The
problem is then reduced to the columnar (axially independent) SLE, with centerline and wall conditions for the
solution of the outlet flow stream function. The numerical simulations realize the various flow states and show
correlation between time-asymptotic states and steady states predicted according to the SLE and the columnar
SLE problems. The simulations also shed light on the stability of the various steady states. Results show that pipe
divergence promotes the appearance of breakdown states at lower inlet swirl levels while pipe contraction delays
the appearance of vortex breakdown to higher swirl levels and promotes formation of wall-separation states. The
influence of various inlet swirling flow profiles on the manifold of steady states in a straight, finite-length pipe and
on flow dynamics is also investigated. Depending on the inlet profiles, flows may first exhibit vortex breakdown while
others wall-separation states.
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Professional Development Workshop Series for Juniors and Seniors, Presented by the English Dept.
2019-02-20 15:10 - 16:30 | floyd 244, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354, United States
February 20th | Floyd 244
3:10 p.m. – 4:30p.m.
Resume and Cover Letter Writing
Learn practical tips and tools to enhance your resume and write a powerful cover letter.
Work shops are limited to 10-15 participants. Students who attend the workshop on January 30th, will have first priority to attend other workshops in the series.
Registration is required, to register, email Vanessa.Cozza@wsu.edu.
Snacks and beverages provided.

Professional Learning Opportunity - Culturally Relevant Teaching
2019-02-18 09:00 - 16:00 | CIC 120, 2710 University Dr, Richland, 99354, United States
Participants in this session will engage in critical conversations involving gender, class ethnicity, and sexual orientation, and will experience the positive and negative effects that teacher expectations, privilege, and stereotyping can have on student achievement. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own classroom management and teaching style and will apply their knowledge by creating culturally relevant classrooms and infusing lesson plans with culturally relevant teaching strategies.

MME Seminar Series - Importance of Physicochemical Details to Understand Colloidal Dispersions
2019-02-15 12:10 - 13:00 | BSEL 102
We will have ME 598 Graduate Seminar this Friday (2/15) at 12:10 PM – 1:00 PM in BSEL 102.
Dr. Jaehun Chun will be presenting on “Importance of Physicochemical Details to Understand Colloidal Dispersions”

Running Start Info Night
2019-02-13 18:00 - 19:30 | East Auditorium, 2710 Crimson Way, Richland, WA, 99354
Join us for an in-depth look at Running Start, there will be a student panel, faculty presentation, and a Running Start 411.
