Awarded annually since 2007, the prize goes to an outstanding, environmentally knowledgeable graduate student from an underrepresented community who has demonstrated an exceptional capacity for leadership as well as scholarship. This is the third year in a row the honor has gone to a WSU student.
The Partners in Discovery GK-12 Project brought together environmental science graduate students from WSUV with middle school science teachers in several Clark County districts for real-world science projects using funds from an NSF grant.
CAS student and former president of ASWSU Spokane, Lindsey Schaffer will take her student government skills to the next level during her yearlong term as student regent on the WSU Board of Regents. Also in the Honors College, Lindsey is working toward a degree in basic medical sciences and Spanish while working on her doctor of pharmacy degree in the College of Pharmacy.
Encounters with creativity await visitors to the Washington State University Museum of Art’s annual Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, April 5-May 4. An opening reception will be at 6 p.m. Friday, April 5, in the museum gallery. Museum admission is always free.
The display of work by MFA graduate candidates was organized by Keith Wells, the late Museum of Art curator.
“This exhibition provides a wide range of styles for faculty, students and local museum constituents,” Wells said. “The world class faculty at WSU encourage the MFA candidates to become more confident and articulate in their convictions. The museum presents this year’s graduate thesis work in hopes that undergraduate students, first year graduate students and anyone willing to be moved by art will find it a fun and stimulating experience.”
Anna Plemons, a graduate student in the Department of English, will present “A Place for Poems: Art as Activism in the California Prison” at noon in CUB 420 on February 13.
Her presentation is one of many Black History Month activities happening around the Pullman campus in February.
