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For the first time, WSU Libraries team up with the University of Idaho Library to host GIS Day 2025 on Wednesday, Nov. 19, at the UI Student Union Building’s Clearwater Room and over Zoom. Free and open to everyone, the event will bring together scholars, students, professionals, businesses, and the public to discuss geospatial technologies […]

Travis Baldree, author of the cozy fantasy novel Legends & Lattes, will discuss his book and more at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, at the Holland and Terrell Libraries, part of the regional Everybody Reads program. The event is free and open to the public. For more area talks by Baldree, check out the Everybody […]

“Later in the night, I felt another stirring inside me. Something I had buried and denied for over 20 years began to make itself heard. I cried out, ‘Who am I? Am I Indian—or am I white?’ I heard a voice, and it told me, ‘Go home.’” On Feb. 20, 1993, Roberta Tawlikitsanmay’ (Woman of […]

WSU Libraries and the WSU Academic Success and Career Center (ASCC) hosted an Oct. 13 Résumé Café in Terrell Library’s new academic support space to open in January, the Cougar Commons. In total, 64 WSU students came to receive one-on-one networking and résumé support from 16 representatives of nine companies in attendance, including Boeing, Enterprise […]

International Open Access Week takes place Oct. 20-26, with the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” WSU Libraries will host a Zoom panel, “AI Tools in an Open Research Landscape,” at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) concerns impact academic researchers and their work. Those interested in attending can register here. […]

Florence Shotridge, a Tlingit woman from Alaska, did something unheard of for Native American peoples in the early 20th century: She conducted anthropological fieldwork among Northwest Coast communities and played an “Indian princess” as she educated schoolchildren who visited Philadelphia’s University Museum where she worked. And she did it by using her Indian boarding school […]

In collaboration with the WSU African American Student Center (AASC), Owen Science and Engineering Library will hold an Oct. 24 dedication and reception of a permanent display honoring Gladys Cooper Jennings, food science pioneer, activist, and the first African American woman to earn a master’s degree from Washington State College in 1948. The events start […]

Dave Crowder is a professor in the WSU Department of Entomology, the director of the WSU Decision Aid System Service Center, and the assistant director of the WSU Molecular Plant Sciences Graduate Program. Research in his laboratory deals with the population dynamics and ecology of insects, as well as their interactions with plants. Most of […]

WSU Libraries celebrate Holland Library’s diamond anniversary with a panel and an exhibit around the theme “Lights, Tubes, Space: Holland Library Turns 75.” The panel from 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1, in the Holland original circulation area features Trevor Bond, WSU Libraries dean; Phil Gruen, professor, WSU School of Design and Construction; and Mark O’English, […]

Following weeks of fruitless 1970s job-hunting, honor student and new college graduate Mike Nolan was broke and miserable, sleeping on his sister’s couch. As a last resort, he signed on as a shipyard laborer and discovered that the most worthwhile education often happens outside of a classroom. Indeed, when he toppled from the crow’s nest […]