VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver presents the third in the Chancellor's Seminar Series's spring season, entitled "Climate Change: Fact or Fiction?" This campus lunchtime presentation takes place noon to 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 16, in the Firstenburg Student Commons.
Ticket price for each seminar is $30 per person, including lunch and parking. For more information and to register, see http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/css, call 360-546-9600, or visit http://www.vancouverusa.com to purchase tickets online. Advance registration deadline is Friday, May 9.
"The Chancellor's Seminar Series offers an outstanding lineup of speakers from within the WSU community of experts - along with national experts from outside of our institution-to address issues impacting Clark County …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - "Visionary Landscapes: The Electronic Literature Organization 2008 Conference," will be held May 29 - June 1 at the downtown Hilton Vancouver Washington, at Clark College, at WSU Vancouver (bus transportation provided), and at the downtown North Bank Artists Gallery, 1005 Main St. More than 120 digital media artists and critics from around the world will participate in the event.
The keynote speaker is internationally renowned artist Mark Amerika, one of Time magazine's "100 Innovators." Featured speakers include hypertext author John Cayley and Sue Thomas, founder of trAce Online Writing Centre and author of "Correspondence" and "Hello World!"
The conference kicks off May 29 with workshops open to the public at $40 per event. From 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Amerika …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - The newest art display in the Washington State University Vancouver library gallery is a group of oil paintings by Leslie Cote.
Cote is a local artist who has shown in the Aurora Gallery, the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, and the YWCA. In her current body of work she explores her ancestral heritage with images of people in Africa. The show runs until July 11.
Cote uses a soft color pallet. In a number of pieces she pairs a cool yellow with a pale blue. The colors create a calm, soothing feel to images of people busy shopping, dancing, working and making music. Six of the paintings in the exhibition are small in scale. Even in the smaller works Cote's paintings include many minute details, but the faces of the people remain …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission announces the first awarding of grants to 25 organizations and agencies around Washington as part of the No Child Left Inside program, created to get kids connected with nature.
Organizations receiving the grants include the Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center, a non-profit organization located on over 100 acres of urban green space just east of I-205 on the old Evergreen Hwy.
Columbia Springs is the only Southwest Washington organization recipient and was awarded $42,550.00 to target and provide outdoor and environmental education to students who are low-income or homeless. Funds will be used to provide these youth opportunities to discover everything from birds and bugs …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - When the students and faculty of Washington State University Vancouver gather for commencement this year on May 10 at 1 p.m., many proud parents will fill The Amphitheater at Clark County to watch their children graduate.
However, on this day before Mother's Day, one mother will be cheering her son from the students' seating, and he will cheer her as well. Tami Galland, 43, and her son Loy J. Dockery, III, 21, are both receiving their bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degree.
It was a long road for Galland, who collected credits through years while working as an engineering technician and raising two children alone, then blending families with marriage, adding two more children. "I started this degree in 1989," she said. "I wasn't going …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - May 10 is graduation day for 711 students of Washington State University Vancouver. Each year, one undergraduate student as well as two faculty members receive a special mention during the ceremony.
The Chancellor's Award for Student Achievement will go to David Neuhauser, 44. Despite great personal difficulty in recent years, Neuhauser is receiving his Bachelor of Arts in human development, with a 3.87 GPA. "The human development faculty and staff supported me through so much, even when they didn't know it," he said. "The professors were always so approachable - they were like friends as well as teachers."
Selected by the students of WSU Vancouver, the 2008 Student's Award for Teaching Excellence goes to Marcelo Diversi, assistant professor of human development. Diversi teaches courses in understanding family interactions and …
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The ceremony is expected to last approximately 90 to 120 minutes in the outdoor setting of the Amphitheater. Tickets are not required. Rehearsal is planned for 3 p.m., May 9, also at the Amphitheater at Clark County. Parking is free for rehearsal and commencement. More parking details, including maps, are available at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/ss/commencement.htm.
The numbers of students receiving graduate degrees at the ceremony will be:
- Doctor of Education, 6 …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver has named Wim Geurden to the position of director of information technology, as of April 15.
Geurden comes to WSU Vancouver from JPMorgan Chase, Columbus, Ohio, where he was chief of IT architecture for retail financial services. He is a resident of Ridgefield, Wash., where he has lived since 1999. He has also worked as a senior executive in Accenture's Financial Services Practice, and as a senior technology strategist for banking at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to Microsoft, Geurden was a partner with Accenture's Strategic Information Technology Effectiveness group.
"I am looking forward to expanding the IT capabilities on this rapidly growing campus," said Geurden, "and to appropriately integrating a continuous stream of new technology into our existing environment."
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver students from the Introduction to Digital Media class are showcasing prints of their work in the Administration Building gallery through June 6.
For more than 10 years, students from the WSU Vancouver Fine Arts courses have mounted an end-of-year exhibition of their work. This exhibit addresses the problem of abstraction, which places the emphasis on visual fundamentals such as shape, color, texture, line, volume and the logic of composition. In the following assignment, students had free reign in both subject matter and technique. The prints will be exchanged in the gallery as the students create new work. The instructor of the class is Harrison Higgs, assistant professor of Fine Arts. Adjunct faculty Yoshi Kitai's Print Based Media class is showing a mix of etchings and …
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PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University will conduct a simultaneous test of its emergency communications systems at the university's four major campuses at 12:15 p.m. on April 9.
During the testing, students, faculty and staff in Pullman and at WSU's regional campuses in Spokane, Vancouver and Tri-Cities will receive test emergency messages by telephone, cell phone, cell phone text, and e-mail. The brief message, indicating that an emergency test of the system is underway, will be issued to all who have registered their contact information online via the WSU computer network. In Pullman, the test will also involve use of …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Southwest Washington Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement will host its fourth annual MESA Day event, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 22 at Clark College.
More than 140 middle school students from three school districts will have the opportunity to showcase design, problem solving, mathematical and communication skills on a competitive basis. Schools will compete in the pre-built trebuchet competition and a math olympiad. Students from separate schools will work in collaborative on-site design teams to take on integrated engineering challenges. Parents and family members are invited to attend the events of the day, including a parent seminar, "College Readiness 101." An awards ceremony will complete the event.
MESA brings resources into schools to help close the academic achievement gap and build a pathway to careers in engineering and science for …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - In the annual celebration and spring clean up of campus grounds, the faculty, staff, students and community of Washington State University Vancouver will host Cougar Pride Days this year April 1 -3 and 5.
Community members are welcome to join in the fun and environmental sprucing. The schedule of events includes:
Community members (especially WSU alumni!) interested in taking part to show their Cougar Pride can sign up for events online at http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/events/cougarpride/.
WSU Vancouver is located at 14204 N.E. Salmon Creek Ave., east of the 134th Street exit from either I-5 or I-205, or via C-Tran bus service. We offer 16 bachelor's degrees, nine master's degrees, one …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State University Vancouver's Child Development Program will be expanding in to a private, full-day kindergarten, thanks to a $1.5 million dollar donation from the Tod and Maxine McClaskey Family Foundation.
This is the foundation's initial gift, and the largest cash gift to date for WSU Vancouver.
The funding will be used for a variety of start-up costs, from nearly $1 million in interior and exterior construction, to curriculum development, and to staff salaries. Under current plans, the new kindergarten would open doors to students in the fall of 2010. To fully fund the program, the university will need to raise at least $3.5 million more in the coming year.
The program currently serves three to …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - Washington State Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen will visit Washington State University Vancouver at 1:30 p.m., Feb. 21 to highlight recent grants from the Washington Technology Center to researchers at WSU Vancouver.
"We are really seeing a trend toward this kind of engagement between the state, university research facilities and private industry," said Hal Dengerink, chancellor of WSU Vancouver and Vice Chair of the WTC board of directors. "Such a partnership between these three entities is key to economic development."
In January of this year, Washington Technology Center awarded Research and Technology Development funding totaling $528,978 to eight projects developed between companies and Washington researchers; two of those to Vancouver companies with research partnerships at WSU Vancouver: Efficere Technologies and nLight Photonics.
Representatives from Efficere and RS Medical, an awardee from 2001, will …
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Center for Social and Environmental Justice at Washington State University Vancouver presents the second annual spring research colloquium. All of the lectures are free and open to the public, in the Multimedia Classroom building, room 6. Parking is available in metered spaces, or in the Blue Lot for $3 per day.
Feb. 20, 12 to 1:15 p.m.: - Prof. Stephen Bollens, Earth & Environmental Sciences, "Shrimp and Oysters in Willapa Bay: Integrating Applied and Basic Sciences"
March 3, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.: