Notices and Announcements

The International Journal of Sport Communication (IJSC) invites researchers, scholars, and professionals to contribute original research to a special issue exploring the multifaceted relationships between sport, politics, and communication. Topics of interest include political issues in sport communication, media representation of sport in various political systems, athlete activism, and the influence of social media on political discourse in sport.

To submit a manuscript, however, please go through the regular submission steps found on the IJSC website (please see link below). In the cover letter to the IJSC editor (Paul M. Pedersen, PhD, Indiana University), simply note that the submission is for the Politics, Sport, and Communication: A Global Review special issue.

• Submission guidelines
• International Journal of Sport Communication (IJSC)

Please reach out to Drs. Michael Mirer, Mahdi Latififrad, and Alex C. Gang — the guest editors of this special issue — at mirer@uwm.edu, mahdilatififard@gmail.com, and alex.gang@wsu.edu with any questions regarding the special issue.

The last meeting of WSU AAUP for the spring semester will happen on Friday, April 26, at 12:10 p.m. on Zoom. We will use our regular Zoom room.

The agenda is a review of the recent survey results and agenda setting for going forward.

All faculty throughout the WSU system are welcome!

The Green 3 section of the parking lot located along NE College Avenue and south of Daggy Hall is scheduled to be closed permanently, Monday, May 6. The hourly parking (labeled as “Columbia Street Lot Top Bays” in the AMP Park app and at aimsmobilepay.com) section of this lot will remain open during construction. Additionally, SE Columbia Street from Idaho Street to Spokane Street, and a section of the Green 3 parking lot west of the Commons building is temporarily closed for the duration of this project. Patrons may utilize the nearby Green 3 parking lots. View the map for exact locations.

The closure is in conjunction with the construction of the new Schweitzer Engineering Hall. This new building will become the academic home for all of Voiland College’s Pullman campus activities. To learn more about this exciting new addition to the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture on WSU Pullman’s campus, please visit the Voiland College’s Schweitzer Engineering Hall web page.

If you have any questions regarding the parking impacts, please contact WSU Transportation Services at transportation@wsu.edu or 509-335-PARK (7275).

HRS Benefits is hosting a presentation on “Social Security 101 — Everything You Wanted to Know.” Kirk Larson with Social Security will be presenting on topics such as:

• When are you eligible to receive benefits
• How an early draw can affect your benefits
• Survivor, spouse, and disability benefits
• What is the future of Social Security, and
• When should you file for Medicare

To register to attend, visit Percipo, where the Zoom link will be provided once you register. (Note: This is a joint presentation with Bellevue Community College, which the Zoom link will reflect.)

WSU will be hosting this event again in the fall if you are not able to attend this presentation.

Following their recent update to the rollout schedule of the updated format of Teams, Microsoft plans to move all remaining users to the new Teams app, removing the option to revert to Teams classic, in mid-May.

Information Technology Services (ITS) recommends all WSU faculty, staff, and students upgrade to the new application now since users can expect many of the familiar features of Teams classic with no significant workflow impact in the upgraded Teams app.

Those still using Teams’ classic version can activate via the “Try the new Teams” button in the upper-left corner of the classic app. Please contact your local IT support team for transition assistance on a WSU-owned device if needed.

You can revert to Teams classic until Microsoft’s May changes.

If you experience issues transitioning to the new Teams app now or closer to May, please confirm that your device meets the minimum system requirements for new Teams and connect with your local IT support team to complete additional troubleshooting.

Teams classic users who do not meet the new Teams prerequisites or are unable to be automatically moved to new Teams by mid-May will maintain classic access until July 1 to allow needed transition support. After July 1, Teams classic will no longer be functional.

Visit its.wsu.edu to learn more about this upcoming Microsoft Teams change.

Please contact Crimson Service Desk via email at crimsonservicedesk@wsu.edu or phone at 509-335-4357 with any questions.

The Genomics Core at WSU Spokane now offers cutting-edge bioinformatics services to support WSU research. Spearheading this initiative is Dr. Daniel Beck (Biosketch (PDF)), an accomplished bioinformatician with over a decade of experience, particularly in next-generation sequencing data analysis. Our standard services include procedures such as data quality control and processing, differential expression analysis of RNA-Seq data, de novo genome assembly, and genomic variant analysis. Additionally, we offer custom data analyses tailored to your specific research needs (visit our website for more information).

Our team will work with you to design custom methods for library preparation, sequencing, and data analysis for your research projects. We are committed to helping you access advanced tools and resources for genomic analysis, ensuring your work remains at the forefront of scientific discovery. For free consultation or more information, please reach out to us at 509-368-6668 or via email at spok.genomicscore@wsu.edu.

The David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities invites you to attend its first Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Conference (IAHC) on April 26–27. The theme of the conference is Connecting Communities.

The conference website and schedule are available online.

Please share this with your colleagues and students.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Annual parking permits for the WSU Pullman campus are available for renewal through Friday, May 31.

Current eligible, non-residence hall permit holders may log into their WSU Pullman parking account and renew their current permit or purchase a different available zone permit. Current eligible permit holders interested in a different zone permit, may request to join a waitlist by contacting WSU Transportation Services at 509-335-PARK (7275) or transportation@wsu.edu.

All vehicle information must be updated. All account parking ticket balances must be paid in full before a permit can be renewed and purchased.

Faculty and staff who are utilizing payroll deduction may see an outstanding balance for their current permit. This balance will not restrict the renewal and purchase of a parking permit. Please do not pay off the payroll eligible parking permit balances.

Please visit the Parking Permit Rates web page for a complete list of annual parking permit rates.

Order 2024–25 annual parking permit:

• Go to parking.wsu.edu
• Click “Login” in the top right-hand corner.
• Login with WSU network ID and password.
• Click on “Order Permits” icon.
• Review and agree with the terms of service.
• Select current zone or available permit.
• Confirm permit, account details, associated vehicles, add permit to cart, and complete checkout.

For more annual permit renewal information, please contact WSU Transportation Services at 509-335-PARK (7275) or transportation@wsu.edu.

Edited by WSU faculty Vahid Vahdat, the book, Animate(d) Architecture, brings together an interdisciplinary group of internationally-recognized thinkers, designers, and artists, such as Refik Anadol, Greg Lynn, and Graham Harman, to examine animation from a spatial lens.

The chapters investigate the role of space in animation, including in creating humorous moments in early cartoon shorts, generating action and suspense in Japanese anime, and even stimulating erotic pleasure in pornographic Hentai.

Animation, in this collection, is approached as a medium that can equip the designers of the built environment with a utopian scope to address our socio-political and ecological crises.

Tuesday, April 23, 6–7 p.m.
The Hecht Meeting Room, Neill Public Library
Downtown Pullman

There will be pastries!

Description:

At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, in his new book, The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894 (Edinburgh UP, 2024), Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants, and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decenter the human.

For this public lecture, McAuley will present an eco-feminist reading of Leonora Sansay’s Gothic novel set during the Haitian Revolution, Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo (1808). According to McAuley, Sansay’s work establishes a troubling connection between the brutality of capitalism and evolutionary biology vis-à-vis women’s struggle for survival in a misogynistic plantation economy designed to satisfy the desires of European men.

Speaker bio:

Dr. Kirk McAuley is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at WSU, and, in addition to various scholarly articles and chapters, he is the author of two books, including (most recently) The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), the research for which was supported by a 2015–16 Fulbright Scholarship at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK.

Students, faculty, and staff are invited to learn how to reduce the risk of opioid overdose at Narcan training.

The training will cover how to recognize the symptoms of opioid overdose, assess appropriate care, and administer naloxone (Narcan). Participants will also learn how to use fentanyl test strips.

The training takes place Wednesday, April 24, 3–4 p.m. in Todd Hall 133 on the Pullman campus.

All are welcome to attend. Free Narcan kits and fentanyl test strips will be provided at the end of the training. No registration required.

Narcan kits are also available for free at the Cougar Health Services Pharmacy.

Join the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center in celebrating the Class of 2024 during a WSU Pullman Commencement Reception 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Saturday, May 4.

The reception is open to all Coug grads, their families and supporters, and community members wishing to commemorate the latest group of WSU alumni and features a dessert bar, complimentary Cougar IX wine tasting, and keepsake photo.

More information is available at visitor.wsu.edu, 509-335-4636, visitor@wsu.edu, or by following the Brelsford WSU Visitor Center on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Check out these upcoming development opportunities! Questions? Contact hrstraining@wsu.edu.

• Supervisor Support Roundtable Discussion, April 26
  Learn more and register for Supervisor Support Roundtable Discussion

  This 2-hour roundtable discussion is related to all stages of an employee’s lifecycle: recruitment, performance management, and performance correction. Supervisors and managers are encouraged to bring questions, scenarios and/or case studies to this HR Consultant facilitated session.

• Conflict Resolution, April 30
  Learn more and register for Conflict Resolution

  Join Learning and Organizational Development Manager, Laura Hamilton as you explore to understand the five main styles of conflict resolution, and the six phases of the resolution process.

• Crucial Accountability Book Review: Spring Series May 2 and 21
  Learn more and register for Crucial Accountability Book Review

  Crucial Accountability offers tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life. Learn how to deal with violated expectations in a way that permanently solves the problem at hand without harming the relationship.

• Workplace Communication: Giving and Receiving Feedback, May 14
  Learn more and register for Workplace Communication

  Review the development stages of teams and the importance of clear communication in the workplace. Using an interactive survey, participants will identify different communication styles, including their own, and the skills required to give feedback effectively.

WSU’s Kamiak High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster is a powerful resource available for all WSU researchers to accelerate their research computing. This presentation will highlight key features and recent upgrades to Kamiak and lay out the Center for Institutional Research Computing’s (CIRC) plans for the future. Learn how you can take advantage of Kamiak’s freely available research computing resources and find out how you can purchase expanded compute power for your lab using CIRC’s condominium style investment model.

Join us on Tuesday, April 23, from 11:10 a.m. – noon. 

RSVP to receive the Zoom link

Washington State women’s rowing gets to compete at home this weekend as they will face off with Gonzaga in the 32nd Fawley Cup race at 4:45 p.m. today, April 19, at Wawawai Landing in Colton, Wash.

For more information on the Washington State rowing team, follow @WSUCougarRowing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

This is the last week to nominate titles for consideration as the 2025–26 WSU Common Reading, with a deadline to submit nominations by Monday, April 22. The selection committee welcomes nominations of books in any genre and on any topic that could spark multidisciplinary campus-wide conversation, classroom use, and activities. The nomination form is available at commonreading.wsu.edu.

The program also encourages instructors and programs across the university to consider use of the 2024–25 Common Reading, Priya Fielding Singh’s How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America. All incoming first-year students across the system will be receiving paperback copies of the book in August, thanks to funding from the Provost’s Office. Links to request an exam copy, information on the book, and options for inexpensive student access are also available on the Common Reading site.

Check out these upcoming development opportunities over the coming weeks:

• Conflict Resolution, April 30
  Learn more and register for Conflict Resolution

  Join Learning and Organizational Development Manager Laura Hamilton as you explore to understand the five main styles of conflict resolution, and the six phases of the resolution process.

• Crucial Accountability Book Review, May 2 and 21
  Learn more and register for Crucial Accountability Book Review

  Crucial Accountability offers tools for improving relationships in the workplace and in life. Learn how to deal with violated expectations in a way that permanently solves the problem at hand without harming the relationship.

• Workplace Communication: Giving & Receiving Feedback, May 14
  Learn more and register for Workplace Communication

  Review the development stages of teams and the importance of clear communication in the workplace. Using an interactive survey, participants will identify different communication styles, including their own, and the skills required to give feedback effectively.

Tuesday, April 23, 6–7 p.m.
The Hecht Meeting Room, Neill Public Library
Downtown Pullman

There will be pastries!

Description:

At this critical juncture in which the biodiversity of planet Earth appears to be shrinking fast and furiously, in his new book, The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894 (Edinburgh UP, 2024), Louis Kirk McAuley invites us to consider the ways in which particular unruly natures, including animals, plants, and minerals, actively intervene in literature to decenter the human.

For this public lecture, McAuley will present an eco-feminist reading of Leonora Sansay’s Gothic novel set during the Haitian Revolution, Secret History; Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo (1808). According to McAuley, Sansay’s work establishes a troubling connection between the brutality of capitalism and evolutionary biology vis-à-vis women’s struggle for survival in a misogynistic plantation economy designed to satisfy the desires of European men.

Speaker bio:

Dr. Kirk McAuley is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at WSU, and, in addition to various scholarly articles and chapters, he is the author of two books, including (most recently) The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704–1894 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), the research for which was supported by a 2015–16 Fulbright Scholarship at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, UK.

HRS Benefits is hosting a presentation on “Social Security 101 — Everything You Wanted to Know.” Kirk Larson with Social Security will be presenting on topics such as:

• When are you eligible to receive benefits
• How an early draw can affect your benefits
• Survivor, spouse, and disability benefits
• What is the future of Social Security, and
• When should you file for Medicare

To register to attend, visit Percipo, where the Zoom link will be provided once you register. (Note: This is a joint presentation with Bellevue Community College, which the Zoom link will reflect.)

WSU will be hosting this event again in the fall if you are not able to attend this presentation.

A new Commercialization Gap Fund cycle is coming soon!

Hosted by the Office of Commercialization (OC) with support from the Washington Research Foundation (WRF), the yearly competition aims to provide a funding avenue for researchers looking to bridge the “gap” between their research and industry.

Through the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF), you can receive up to $50,000 in awards to help turn your innovative ideas and inventions into viable market products.

Join us for an informational Zoom webinar!

Friday, April 19, 2–3 p.m.
Register online!

Contact the Office of Commercialization:

509-335-5526
commercialization@wsu.edu
commercialization.wsu.edu/about-us