A second round of girders are being installed as part of the Salmon Creek Interchange Project. Southbound I-205 was closed last night and will be closed again at the I-5 junction from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight and Tuesday night. This work also closes the southbound off-ramp to NE 134th Street.
 
All through traffic will be diverted onto I-5. Local traffic and drivers heading to Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center should exit I-5 at NE 179th Street (Exit 9) and follow a signed detour.

Electrical maintenance to the Library, Multimedia Classroom and Undergraduate buildings will cut power in those locations from 7 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday, July 27. Emergency power will allow for lighting, but not computers.

July 27 – Aug. 12 carpet will be replaced in about half the space in the Library. Expect a little disruption as furnishings get moved to accommodate the project.

Call Facilities Operations with questions at 6-9000.

“Pathfinders: Documenting the Experience of Early Digital Literature” is making its debut on campus July 8 – 9 in the Electronic Literature Lab in the Classroom building, room 210. Stuart Moulthrop, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction as both a theoretician and writer, will be the first guest. He will also lecture at 7 p.m. July 9 at Nouspace Gallery, 1005 Main St, Vancouver, Wash. The lecture, “Failure to Contain: Electronic Literature and the State of (Machine) Reading,” is free and open to the public.

“Pathfinders,” led by Dene Grigar, associate professor and director of the creative media and digital culture program, and Moulthrop, are developing methods for digital preservation with the goal of capturing not only the digital work but also the human experience of interacting with early digital art. It is supported by a “Digital Humanities Start Up Grant” from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Computer science graduate student Bo Wang and Assistant Professor of Computer Science David Chiu have been selected to participate in the 2013 Google Summer of Code. Wang was one of 1,192 applicants accepted to the highly competitive program out of 5,999 proposals from 94 countries. Chiu was selected to be a Google Summer of Code mentor.

Since 2011, four WSU Vancouver computer science students have participated in Google Summer of Code. One of the four participants has interned for Intel and two others are software engineers for Web Trends and ForgeRock.

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The American Chemistry Society Green Chemistry Institute welcomed Mark Stephan, associate professor for the School of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, as a panel speaker for its 17th annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference. The event took place June 18 – 20 in Washington, D.C.

The Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference offers programming on subjects such as designing safer chemicals and products, government regulation and green chemistry, and new business through green chemistry innovations.

Stephan presented, “The Disclosure Dilemma and the Toxics Release Inventory.” He discussed green chemistry and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory including reporting achievements and identifying effective practices.