Pullman Campus News & Events February 21, 2023

Join Katie Sullivan with The Walt Disney Company today at 5 p.m. at the annual Halver Lecture where she will present about her work in animal nutrition.

Award-winning author Robin Wall Kimmerer will discuss “What does the Earth ask of us?”, when she delivers virtually the 16th annual Common Reading Invited Lecture for Washington State University. The event is free and open to the public.

Melissa Hellmann, racial, gender, and economic inequality reporter for the Center for Public Integrity, will present “The Cost of Disparity: How State Tax Policies Fuel the Racial Wealth Gap” at the Hoops Taxation Research and Policy Institute’s spring forum Feb. 27.

The Administrative Professional Advisory Council (APAC) is seeking system-wide nominations/applications for general council member and alternate membership roles.

The state of Washington’s Long‑Term Care program and the associated payroll tax that will fund the LTC Benefit Trust are set to start in July 2023.

Washington State University alumni Cindy Brunson, Robert Dove, and Roger Nyhus will be honored by the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication as 2023 Hall of Achievement Award recipients at the 47^th Murrow Symposium held April 4–5.

Engineering professors Shulin Chen and Xiao Zhang have been honored as senior members of the National Academy of Inventors.

Many of the WSU studies that grabbed headlines last year had to do with human health, topped by the discovery of a potentially dangerous virus in Russian bats, a relative of the one that causes COVID‑19.