VIT has installed AirServer software to allow instructors to wirelessly display content from newer Apple iPads, iPhones, iPods or Mac laptops on the classroom projector. Visit VIT’s website for step-by-step instructions. If you have questions or need additional help, contact VIT at 6-9770 or by email.

Three women were honored for inspiring, mentoring and empowering others at the sixth-annual Women of Distinction celebration. Held March 27, the event wrapped up Women’s History Month at the university.

The awardees are Lauren Clark, a senior at Columbia River High School, as High School Woman of Distinction; Kim Stewart, a graduate student in the master’s of accounting program, as WSU Vancouver Student Woman of Distinction; and Brenda Alling, director of marketing and communications, as Non-student Woman of Distinction.

The annual WSU Vancouver Faculty & Staff Campaign launches Tuesday, April 1 and runs through April 11. WSU Pullman colleagues will be in town to show their support for the campaign by serving treats from 2 – 3 p.m. April 1 in the Dengerink Administration Building, Room 130. Take a break and come by for a dessert bar, Cougar Gold cheese, fruit and other goodies.

With an outstanding giving history, WSU Vancouver is again aiming for high participation. Participation is the goal. 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.

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 3
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110

The Washington State VetCorps will present a screening of “Service: When Women Come Marching Home.” The film portrays the courage of several women veterans as they transition from active duty to civilian life. They wrestle with prosthetics, homelessness, post-traumatic stress disorder and military sexual trauma.

The screening will be followed by a veteran panel discussion and a keynote address by Lourdes E. Alvarado-Ramos, director of the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs.

10 a.m. April 5
Sign up online

Run for Cougs is a 5K fun run starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 5 from the Firstenburg Family Fountain. The price of entry is 10 non-perishable food items for the Cougar Food Pantry. The Cougar Food Pantry supports students in need. This event is open to all. Free t-shirts will be distributed while supplies last.

3 – 4:30 p.m. April 9
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 129

Faculty, staff and students are invited to a town hall-style session to comment on the draft WSU strategic plan for 2014 – 19. The provost and strategic planning committee would like comment from as many voices as possible. The draft plan has been formed and fine-tuned with input from several committees, college leaders, staff and faculty groups, student leadership groups and individuals.

Noon – 1:15 p.m. and 1:25 – 2:40 p.m. April 10
Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110

Join the Center for Social and Environmental Justice for a free lecture by Eric de Place, policy director at Sightline Institute in Seattle. De Place spearheads Sightline’s work on climate and energy policy. The Sightline Institute has released a study estimating the climate impacts of the proposed fossil fuel export facilities in the Pacific Northwest as equivalent to seven times that of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

De Place is a leading Northwest expert on strategies to cut carbon pollution, writes extensively about coal and oil exports, and is considered an authority on a range of issues connected to fossil fuel transport, including carbon emissions, railway congestion, coal dust, water pollution and economics. He also conducts research on demographics, stormwater runoff, transportation, land use and economic security. Previously he worked with the Northwest Area Foundation, developing strategies to alleviate poverty in rural communities. He has a master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.

WSU Vancouver will celebrate Arbor Day with two tree planting events on campus.

Arbor Day Kickoff with the Chancellor
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. April 9
The quad

The kickoff will include the ceremonial planting of an Oregon ash tree. Chancellor Mel Netzhammer will speak at the ceremony.

StreamTeam Tree Planting
10 a.m. – 2 p.m. April 12
Pond by the sports fields

Volunteer to help plant trees. Sign up by emailing the StreamTeam or call 360-992-8585. Volunteers should bring their own gloves. Refreshments will be provided.

7 – 9 p.m. April 9 – 11
Dengerink Administration Building, Rooms 129/130

The History Club will show a series of films that focus on the history of minorities. The series, titled “Unheard Voices,” is free and open to the public. One film will be shown per evening. At the conclusion of each film, there will be a short discussion led by a faculty member and/or member of the History Club Executive Committee about the topics covered in the film and how they relate to the Pacific Northwest. Light refreshments will be provided.

April 9
“Family Gathering” explores three generations of a Japanese-American family, the Yasuis, from immigration through internment during World War II.

April 10
“Harvest of Loneliness” documents trends in Mexican labor immigration from 1942 to 1964. The bracero program, which offered incentives for migrant farm laborers, may have inspired today’s immigration debates.

April 11
“Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin” deals with the interplay of the personal and the political through the story of Bayard Rustin, a freedom rider and an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rustin’s homosexuality forced him into the background of history.