Photo by Taylor Jones

April 7 – 11

In an effort to promote gender diversity at WSU Vancouver, student leaders will host the third annual Gender Neutral Bathroom Week. This week, some restrooms in each building will be designated universal bathrooms. Gender Neutral Bathroom Week has the goal of raising awareness that we do not all conform to societal expectations related to gender, but we all need to use the bathroom.

More than 60 volunteer students, staff and faculty wearing "toilet trainer" T-shirts will be available to provide educational information throughout the week. The campus community is invited to participate in a town hall-style discussion about the week at 10 a.m. Friday, April 11 in the Library, Room 201. Learn more by reading the FAQs.  For additional information, contact the student leads or Bola Majekobaje at 6-9568.

Participation is the goal for the annual Faculty & Staff Campaign. You have until Friday to make a gift of any size to the fund of your choice. The College of Business has already achieved 100 percent participation in this year’s campaign.

With an outstanding giving history, WSU Vancouver is again aiming for high participation. Last year, 66 percent of faculty and staff participated—way above the national average of approximately 23 percent and any of the other WSU campuses. Help us maintain our top spot with your donation.

Visit the Faculty & Staff Giving Campaign website to learn more and see the funds you may choose to support. If you have questions, please call Lisa Abrahamsson in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 6-9600.

4 p.m. April 8
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110
Reception to follow in Rooms 129/130

Come hear Chancellor Mel Netzhammer’s updates on enrollment, tuition, housing, our 25th anniversary celebration and more. Next, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Renny Christopher will recognize four faculty members who have been promoted to professor: Susan Finley, Tamara Holmlund Nelson, Christine Portfors and Rick Sawyer. After the presentations, enjoy the company of your colleagues at a reception to honor our promoted faculty members.

7 p.m. April 9
Library, Room 265

Lee Montgomery was associate publisher and editorial director of Portland-based Tin House Books for more than 10 years. She launched a new e-book platform, Shebooks, in February. Montgomery will discuss, “Publishing Platforms: Old vs. New.” This event is free and open to all.

Lunchtime April 10
Dengerink Administration Building Café

Enjoy Filipino lumpia and veggie pancit for $5.39. The soup of the day will be vegan sinigang, sold separately for $1.89 a cup or $3.69 a bowl.

Lumpia are pastries of Chinese origin. The recipe was brought by the Chinese immigrants from the Fujian province of China to Southeast Asia and became popular where they settled in Indonesia and the Philippines. Pancit is the term for noodles in Filipino cuisine. Sinigang is a Filipino soup characterized by its sour and savory flavor most often associated with tamarind.

4:20 – 6 p.m. April 10
Firstenburg Student Commons

Faculty, staff and students are invited to learn more about initiative I-502 and its implementation on Thursday afternoon. Clay Mosher, professor in the College of Arts and Sciences; and Chris Marr, member of the Washington State Liquor Board will break down the news laws, discuss the Washington and Colorado state laws versus federal law, and talk about where the revenue will go.

Noon – 5 p.m. April 11
Multimedia Classroom Building, Rooms 103 and 107

Travel Café is an annual photo exhibit of work by faculty, staff and students. Guests of the event will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite submitted photograph. The winner will be announced at 4:30 p.m. Artwork created by fine arts students will be on display. This year the event will also include:

• 12:15 p.m. Letterpress workshop
• 2:30 p.m. Artist Lecture by Donn Anning Jones, photographer
• 3:30 p.m. Artist Lecture by Krista Connerly, artist/designer and poetic sociographer

More than 90 displays from across campus will be on view at the 11th annual Research Showcase from 8 to 11 a.m. April 17 in the Firstenburg Student Commons. Students and faculty will be on hand to discuss their work with viewers.

The presentations will explore such topics as the Columbia River ecosystem, mobile storytelling, the effects of hormones on hearing, environmental contaminants in ordinary household products, cultural diversity and end-of-life care. The presentations will be evaluated by a panel of judges, with an awards ceremony at noon.

Afternoon events move to the Dengerink Administration Building, where Charles Brandt will deliver the keynote address at 1 p.m. in Room 129. Brandt is director of the Coastal Sciences Division of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s Energy and Environment Directorate. He will discuss “Opportunities and Challenges for Renewable Ocean Energy in the Pacific Northwest.” A reception follows at 2 p.m. in Room 130.

A History Research Showcase concludes the day at 3 p.m. in Room 129. Students and graduate students in history will discuss topics such as food and the feminist revolution, and ethnic relations in China at the time of the Communist Revolution.

Do you send email notifications about events or deadlines to current students or community members? Sending to large lists of people through Outlook can potentially damage WSU Vancouver’s reputation with Internet service providers and our ability to send and receive email to off-campus addresses.

If you are emailing to more than a dozen off-campus people, please reconsider your approach. A couple options exist.

If you are marketing an event, Marketing and Communications regularly helps create beautiful HTML emails. We use a system called Campaign Monitor that offloads the sending portion and keeps us in good graces with Internet service providers so everything flows smoothly in the world of email messaging.

If you are working with large internal lists, there is a great service through Pullman IT called Mailman. Take a look.

The Chancellor’s Seminar Series welcomed the Murrow Interview to campus March 7. Lawrence Pintak, founding dean and professor for The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, interviewed Dan Fletcher, co-founder of Beacon Reader, a startup that connects readers and writers to fund journalism. See the interview online to learn how Fletcher proposes to change the way you get news.