Nominations due by March 31
Nominations forms: Student/Staff

The Chancellor's Award for Student Achievement recognizes an outstanding graduating student each academic year. Students are selected based on academic achievement and love of learning, overcoming barriers, community service, future leadership potential, active involvement in campus life and other examples of achievement. This award is presented annually at the WSU Vancouver commencement ceremony.

Learn about committee guidelines and membership online.

The Chancellor’s Award for Staff Excellence recognizes and salutes the dedication and commitment of a civil service or administrative professional staff member in advancing the mission of WSU Vancouver. Award criteria includes active participation with campus activities, excellent performance in the staff member’s own role, demonstrated leadership on behalf of WSU Vancouver and going the “extra mile” to advance WSU Vancouver. This award is presented annually, typically at the beginning of the academic year.

Learn about committee guidelines and membership online.

Lunchtime Feb. 18
Dengerink Administration Building Café

Enjoy gyros or hummus pitas with couscous and tabouleh for $5.39. The soup of the day will be lemon, spinach and orzo, sold separately for $1.89 a cup or $3.69 a bowl.

9 a.m. –  noon Feb. 22
6575 NE 124th Ave. (north of Fourth Plain Blvd)

Cougs in the Community is teaming up with the Sifton Heritage Neighborhood Association, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and NRC Environmental to clean up a former transient camp. There will be no campers present, and law enforcement will attend. Trained hazmat professionals will clean up and dispose of needles or other bio-hazardous material. Dress for the weather and bring leather gloves. Heavy-duty trash bags and tongs will be provided.

WSU alumni, students, families and friends are invited to help with this community service project. Meet at 9 a.m. to enjoy coffee and pastries before starting. All volunteers who RSVP will receive a free Cougs in the Community T-shirt! Email to RSVP.

Come help Sifton community members reclaim the beauty of their neighborhood.

11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Feb. 27
Classroom Building, Room 219

The remodel is complete! Come to an open house to see changes Vancouver Information Technology has made to its headquarters in the Classroom Building. Cookies, coffee and tea will be served.

Noon – 1:15 p.m. March 5, 11 and 26
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 129

Join the Center for Social and Environmental Justice us for three free lectures:

• March 5—Anthony Deringer and Susan Finley, “EcoAesthetics and Place-based Education”
• March 11—Pavithra Narayanan, “Indigenous Land Rights and Resistance”
• March 26—Wendy Olson, "Appalachian Rhetorics of Resistance," and Paul Thiers, "Extreme Energy Extraction and Export”

For more information, contact Desiree Hellegers.

12:10 p.m. March 5
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110

Attend “The War on Terror and the New Police State,” a presentation by Thomas H. Nelson, to learn about the USA PATRIOT Act.

Nelson is a Portland-area lawyer whose representation of several clients wrongly suspected of terrorism has made him an expert on the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, more commonly known as the USA PATRIOT Act. Among Nelson’s former clients is Brandon Mayfield, the Oregon lawyer wrongly suspected of involvement in the 2004 coordinated terrorist bombings in Madrid.

Nelson’s talk will focus on the USA PATRIOT Act, an Act of Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2001. The act greatly expands the FBI’s and other federal agencies’ powers to search homes and businesses and to obtain records without consent or knowledge. It has come under increasing criticism following former CIA employee and National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden’s exposure of secret documents that revealed that the NSA, under the power of the USA PATRIOT Act, collected the telephone records of virtually all Americans.

7 – 9 p.m. March 5
Library, Room 265

Vern Rutsala, author of 12 collections of poetry, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award for “The Moment’s Equation.” A champion of the modern-day prose poem, he is also known for such works as “Laments,” “The Journey Begins,” “Paragraphs” and “Little-known Sports.” He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and numerous poetry prizes. His work has appeared in such periodicals as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper’s and American Poetry Review. Rutsala graduated from Reed College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and taught at Lewis & Clark College in Portland for more than 40 years.

The Professional Writers Series brings award-winning writers from a variety of genres to WSU Vancouver. This spring, Pacific Northwest writers are speaking about the trajectory of their careers, their successes and challenges. Free and open to the public.

You’re invited to a reception featuring a panel discussion and Q&A before the talk at 6:15 p.m. in the Library, Room 203.

Murrow Interview
10:30 – noon March 7
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110
RSVP required

The Chancellor’s Seminar Series welcomes the Murrow Interview to campus Friday, March 7. Lawrence Pintak, founding dean and professor for The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at WSU Pullman will interview Dan Fletcher, formerly of TIME and Facebook, and now co-founder of Beacon, a start-up that connects readers and writers to fund journalism. The two will discuss where the news business is headed in the new digital universe. The program will be a one-on-one interview taped in front of a live audience. The tape will be edited and broadcast at a later date.

A limited number of free tickets for the taping are available. Check in time is 10:30 a.m. Taping begins promptly at 11 a.m. Latecomers will not be seated unless or until there is a break in taping.

This spring’s edition of the Chancellor’s Seminar Series is unlike past events. Tickets to the luncheon following the interview are not available for public purchase. If you have any questions, please contact Barb Holder, assistant to the chancellor, at 6-9580.

“Community” (working title) will be the first campus-wide, juried exhibition for emerging and established artists. It will showcase the quality and diversity of fine art and craft produced by staff, faculty and students.

Artists are encouraged to submit pieces in all mediums, although the ability to show three-dimensional and time-based works is limited. Works must be ready to hang. A limited number of frames are available to accepted artists who request one. All entries will be juried by a committee comprised of staff, faculty and students.

Entries are due March 25. Selected artists will be notified by March 31. Art must be delivered to WSU Vancouver April 20. The show will run April 25 – July 20 in the Science and Engineering Building Gallery.

Entries may be submitted via email and must include:

• Name of artist, mailing address, phone number, email, website (if applicable)
• 1 – 4 images of the work you want considered (no smaller than 1920 pixels on the longest side, 72 ppi/dpi, JPEG only, 3 MB max file size)
• An accompanying image list (title, medium, size, year of completion)
• If your work is selected, the arts committee will need one or two sentences about the piece

“Relatively Flat,” the collaborative exhibition featuring the work of Master of Fine Arts students from WSU Pullman and Portland State University, has been delayed in shipping due to inclement weather. It will be on exhibit in the Dengerink Administration Building Gallery beginning Feb. 21. The exhibit aims to foster cross-border exchanges, while engaging with pedagogy, and with traditional and contemporary art practices.

Ninja, a black cat who made campus her home about 15 years ago, passed away last week. She had an injured leg, a heart murmur and she was elderly for a cat.

Ninja made a good life for herself. She was adopted by Parking Services and Facilities Operations, and cared for by all. She brought joy to countless staff and students. Almost daily you could find Ninja accepting pets from a passing student. She also enjoyed resting on the warm hood of a recently parked car.

Ninja will be missed.