Clubs and Organizations
Get Involved
Expand your horizons and extend your learning beyond the classroom with WSU student clubs and organizations. From improv to pre-health, from the annual Pumpkin Drop to the Cougar Marching Band, you’ll find opportunities to get involved and gain leadership experience.
The more than 40 clubs and honor societies affiliated with the the College of Arts and Sciences take field trips, organize social and networking activities, sponsor guest speakers and presentations, and apply their knowledge to real-world situations.
Follow your interests and explore the list below to learn more.
Fine and Performing Arts
Allegro
Allegro represents a broad body of performing artists on the WSU campus. We work to bring opportunities to WSU student musicians, such as helping to bring professional guest artists to WSU, providing performances opportunities, and financially helping students for travel to participate in music- related events.
Art Club
This organization works to create awareness of the arts on the WSU Pullman campus. They encourage people from all majors and talent bases and helps them accomplish amazing projects and learn new things.
Choral Company
This group works to raise funds in support of WSU’s premiere choral ensemble, Concert Choir, an audition-based, mixed choir of 40–50 singers who meet four times a week and perform several times a semester. Members must register for Concert Choir (MUS 431/531), complete an audition for Dr. Lori Wiest, and be accepted into the ensemble.
Collegiate National Association for Music Education
The WSU group helps prepare students to become music educators through monthly meetings and collaboration with present and past music educators. Anyone who aspires to teach music, in any setting, is welcome. Organized under the Allegro RSO.
Cougar Celli
Dedicated to providing a space for cellists of all skill levels to come together and make music. We are also focused on reaching out to younger musicians across Washington state to provide information and inspiration on the pathways available to musicians pursuing higher education.
Digital Media Club
This group serves students’ professional interests and needs in the creative media field.
Jazz Society
The Jazz Society is committed to the promotion, support, and performance of jazz music on and around the WSU campus. Anyone interested in the performance and/or promotion of jazz music is welcome.
Music Teachers National Association
MTNA is geared toward private music teachers and includes several community-oriented activities throughout the year, including performances. Chapter membership is open to all current WSU music students, subject to membership regulations. To be considered “active,” members must perform at least once per semester in an MTNA Atrium Recital.
WSU PhotoWorks
A photomedia space for the WSU art photo community.
Concept Clay
Ceramics studio in Pullman sharing clay processes and concepts.
STAGE
STAGE is WSU’s student theatre group and home to improv comedy troupe Nuthouse. STAGE produces one-act play festivals and full-length plays in Daggy Hall’s Wadleigh Theatre. Opportunities for involvement include acting, directing, playwriting, stage management, and technical direction.
Symphony Orchestra
String players seeking to foster a love for symphonic works and to promote music across the WSU campus and to play four or five concerts a year of varied repertoire. All majors are welcome to audition.
Vocal Jazz Association
This group promotes vocal jazz singing in the WSU community and the Palouse. Vocal Jazz ensembles allow students to express themselves through the singing of jazz and popular music. Organized under the Allegro RSO.
Physical, Natural, and Life Sciences
Actuarial Club
Focus on preparing aspiring actuaries for exams and internships. Periodic visits are scheduled to companies employing actuarials for networking opportunities, fostering communication, and enriching student relations and experiences. Open to all majors.
American Mathematical Society
Furthering the interests of mathematical research, scholarship and education, serving the national and international community through publications, meetings, advocacy and other programs.
Association for Women in Mathematis
Promotes and encourages involvement in the mathematical sciences through mentorship and professional development. Open to undergraduate and graduate students and anyone who supports the advancement of women in math.
Biology Club
The Biology Club is open to all students interested in biology. The club focuses on the many areas of study within biology and seeks to foster a sense of community within the biology community at WSU. All majors are welcome!
Chemistry Club
A student affiliate of the American Chemical Society and open to any undergraduate interested in chemistry, the Chem Club hosts regular meetings with chemistry faculty members and outside speakers and discussions about research and funding. The club’s primary fundraiser is selling student laboratory jackets, which supports programs such as the Mom’s Weekend Chemistry Demo show: a mixture of flames, explosions, and interesting behavior of various chemicals and substances. Members also do outreach to local junior high and high schools as well as Boy Scouts meetings.
Environmental Science Club
An opportunity to interact with student peers who are interested in the well-being of the environment and to work to improve the environment on campus and in the community. The club works with the ASWSU Environmental Task Force to pursue sustainability, environmental protection, and well-being in many different ways.
Forestry Club
We are a student chapter of the Society of American Foresters (SAF), which is the largest and oldest professional society representing the forestry profession in the United States. We have a number of activities, including social events (e.g., bonfires), forest management activities such as thinning stands for firewood, chainsaw training, forestry skills training, and networking with the local working chapter of the SAF.
Geology Club
The club arranges field trips to local sites of geologic interest and give Mom’s Weekend tours from the Webster Hall roof, explaining visible geological features and selling rocks and geological specimens. Their regular pizza/lunch meetings are held in the department undergraduate study lounge that offers computers and lockers.
Graduate Chemistry Society (GCS)
The GCS is committed to improving the social and academic life of chemistry graduate students at WSU. We have our own library space on campus where members can gather for meetings, social gatherings, and studying. We sponsor barbeques, departmental events, and intramural sports teams. Goggle and notebook sales are our primary fundraising activity.
Math Club
You don’t have to be a math major to join—just interested in mathematics! The club gives both graduate and undergraduate students an opportunity to use and improve their mathematics skills and to learn more about advancements and opportunities in the fields of mathematics. The group invites guest speakers and hosts a campus-wide math competition.
Math Modeling Team
Two teams of three undergraduate students competed in a 100-hour (4 days and 4 hours) math modeling competition against 15,000 teams world-wide.
Physics and Astronomy Club
Members are known for being intellectually adventurous. Best known for the annual Pumpkin Drop on Dad’s Weekend, members also design rockets and launch weather balloons, host pizza/movie socials and star parties at the Jewett Observatory, and take tours to places like the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory, both in the Tri-Cities. They also assist one another with research and class assignments.
Scientista
For women who love science, technology, engineering and math at WSU! Be sure to like us and the official scientista foundation page!
Wildlife Society
The Washington State University Wildlife Society is the student chapter of a national society. This club is designed to allow people with an interest in wildlife to gain experience, connections, and knowledge about the wide range of topics and careers of wildlife.
Zoology Club
Also know as Zeta Omega, this group explores career options for zoology majors by visiting sites like the wolf center near Lewiston, Idaho, and the raptor rehabilitation center in Boise, Idaho. They also invite professional zoologists to give presentations. The group takes on local public service projects and hosts social activities.
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Anthropology Club
The Anthropology Club offers a series of activities designed to bring faculty and students together informally to facilitate and expand hands-on learning opportunties and foster greater anthropological understanding. The club is open to all currently enrolled WSU undergraduate students.
Anthropology Graduate Organization (AGO)
AGO promotes professional development in anthropology through participation in professional meetings, sponsoring guest speakers, and involvement in local community education.
Criminal Justice and Criminology Graduate Student Association
The CJC-GSA represents the interests of the graduate student body to the department, University, and community. All advanced degree candidates currently enrolled in the WSU Graduate School and pursuing a criminal justice graduate degree, regardless of campus, constitute the CJC-GSA student body and are eligible for election to the CJC-GSA.
Criminal Justice Club
The Criminal Justice Club is a means for criminal justice students to meet each other and faculty and to exchange ideas on a semi-regular basis. Anyone interested in criminal justice and/or criminology is welcome to join.
Mock Trial
Mock Trial is both a student club and an academic class at WSU. The course is built around a simulated trial of a criminal or civil case in which students role play as the participants. The club Mock Trial team participates in the national competition sponsored by the American Mock Trial Association as well as other invitational tournaments throughout the year.
Police Internship Program at WSU
The mission of the Police Internship Program is to educate and involve students in police operations, provide the University with volunteer security services, develop a mutual understanding between the student population and the WSU Police Department, and generate interest or help prepare interns for careers in law enforcement. The program provides valuable lessons to students as they consider whether to enter law enforcement. The application process each year begins mid-way through spring semester.
Pre-Law Society
This group brings students together to examine the legal structures that govern our society. Activities include public speakers from the legal field, opportunities for civil service and leadership development, educational sessions pertaining to citizenship and law, and preparation for the LSAT. The Pre-Law Society is open to any students interested in the study or future practice of law.
Psychology Club
Majors, minors, and those interested in psychology are welcome to join the growing Psych Club, which gives you the answers you need about the major and career options/preparation and opportunities to hear from and network with other psychology students and guest speakers.
Sociology Club
Sociology Club provides opportunities to meet and network with sociology faculty and majors, for career development, for civic engagement, and to develop an appreciation for the sociological imagination. Sociology majors are automatically members, but the club is open to all WSU students.