Faculty member Mark Stephan will speak this week at the 17th annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. He was invited, in part, due to attention received as co-author of the award-winning book, “Coming Clean: Information Disclosure and Environmental Performance.”
Robert Owen “Bob” Johnson, 86, professor emeritus of English at WSU, passed away on June 3, 2013, at Bishop Place in Pullman. Alexander Hammond, also emeritus in the Department of English, expressed fond memories of Johnson’s welcoming him to the department in 1975 and of Johnson’s administrative support for the American Studies program, his bibliographical scholarship on the New Yorker magazine, and his “wicked play in the department’s poker game.”
Perceptions of crime are shaped by a combination of personal experience and the media, says Michael Gaffney, associate director of the Division of Governmental Studies and Services at Washington State University.
Richard King, professor in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender and Race Studies, says III Citadel — a walled city which may be built this summer in northern Idaho’s Benewah County — “fits a long pattern among Patriots, neo-Nazis, sovereigns and those with antigovernment agendas to prize the Pacific Northwest as an ideal location to escape from modern America.”
Quoted in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report, Dr. King said that those lured by III Citadel may be experiencing “a sense of an endangered way of life, anchored in a sense of imperiled whiteness, especially as inflected by class, gender and sexuality.”
“9:00 am,” a recording featuring Washington State University jazz faculty members Brian Ward, piano, and Dave Hagelganz, tenor saxophone, was recently released on the peer-reviewed WSU Recordings label.
It is available on iTunes, Amazon mp3, Amazon On Demand, Spotify, Rhapsody and other websites. Compact discs are available from the WSU School of Music.
The recording features duo performances of beloved songs from the “Great American Songbook,” including Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael’s “Skylark,” Jimmy Van Huesen and Johnny Burke’s “It Could Happen To You” and jazz standards like Woody Shaw’s “Theme for Maxine” and Sam Rivers’ “Beatrice.” The recording is entitled “9:00 am” because that is the time the duo rehearsed.