April 2001   

Dear Colleagues,

We are fast approaching the end of this academic year, yet April brings many opportunities still for faculty and staff of our College to become involved in College and University planning and collegial activities. Last year, you will recall, I began a tradition of giving an annual All-College Address during the spring term. I wish to invite all of you to this year’s address which will be held on Wednesday, April 11, at 3:10 p.m. in WHETS room T-101 in the FSHN Building. At that time, I will share with you our College Macro Plan; our progress in curriculum, student recruiting, and development; and our budget planning principles for next year. I also will ask for your input on issues that are shaping our common future. A question period and reception will follow the address.

Planned for April as well are two events celebrating the accomplishments of our faculty and staff. Our Liberal Arts Recognition Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 19, from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in the Anthropology Museum. This year we will be honoring recipients of our Faculty, Staff, Student and Alumni Achievement Awards, as well as new recipients of College Distinguished Professorships and of College service awards. And on Thursday, April 26, at 3:30 p.m. we will hold the first annual Liberal Arts Authors’ Recognition Ceremony, also in our Anthropology Museum. This event is modeled after an academic custom in universities in Latin America, and it will feature recently published substantial achievement in scholarship and creative work by our faculty. Those attending will be introduced to faculty authors/artists/composers and their work and have time for pleasant conversation over refreshments.

Finally, I wish to once again invite all of you to the series of Town Hall Meetings on University Strategic Planning being held at noon on March 30 (T-101 FSHN), April 2 (Todd 211), and April 6 (Todd 211). These meetings provide an opportunity for you to give input to the nine design teams who will be presenting final reports to the university’s Strategic Planning Oversight Committee on April 15.

I hope you enjoy reading about the recent accomplishments of our faculty and staff in this issue of “The Chronicle,” and as always, I wish you the best in your continued professional work in teaching, research and service for the College and Washington State University.

Barbara Couture
Dean, College of Liberal Arts

WSU alumna and co-chair of the College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council Burdena “Birdie” Pasenelli was honored at the WSU Women and Leadership Luncheon as a Woman of Distinction for 2001. Pasenelli, a 1967 WSU police science and administration graduate, began her career as one of the first female detectives hired by the Seattle Police Department; she was also one of the first 10 to graduate from the FBI Academy when it opened its doors to women in 1973. She was also the first woman assistant special agent, the first woman special agent in charge of a field office and the first woman assistant director in the FBI. Now retired, she lives in Seattle, where among many activities the mayor has appointed her to a citizens review board.

Congratulations to Liberal Arts students Jared Anthony (English, Vancouver) and Paul Zimmerman (Anthropology), who were among the undergraduates who submitted the Best University Writing Portfolio submissions for fall semester 2000.

Paul Lee (Fine Arts) was interviewed via telephone by BBC World Services for the program Arts in Action. The subject of the interview was his Shanghai Architecture project. The BBC became aware of his work from his Web site: www.wsu.edu/~leep/inshang.html. Lee discussed the Chinese government’s redevelopment of Shanghai from the seat of colonial powers to a world class financial center that rivals Hong Kong. The interview was carried by 1250 KWSU Radio. (You may listen to the interview online.)

Mary Bloodsworth (Women’s Studies and Philosophy) was named the Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2001. As part of the award, Bloodsworth presented a talk, “Centering (on) the ‘D’ Word: Teaching (Towards) Diversity,” in March. An assistant professor in the women’s studies and philosophy departments, Bloodsworth’s teaching methods are “centered on making students feel in charge of their own learning, on the development of critical thinking and writing skills, and on having students organize and present arguments themselves,” said her nominators. The Marian E. Smith Faculty Achievement Award is given each year to recognize significant and meritorious achievement in teaching during the prior academic year.

Faith Lutze, Karen Mason, Nicholas Lovrich and graduate student Michael Gaffney (all Political Science/Criminal Justice) have been invited to participate as members of the Juvenile Drug Court Implementation Teams for Benton, Franklin and Thurston Counties as evaluators.

The Comparative American Cultures Department, its chair Epifanio San Juan, and the CAC Working Papers essay series are cited, in the national newspaper Asian Week, as resources for groups planning events for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (May).

Faith Lutze and Greg Russell (Criminal Justice) have been selected as the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program faculty mentors for Kimberly Williams and Gela Maria Baez.

Laurie Whitcomb-Norden (doctoral candidate, History) has received a fellowship to attend the Summer Institute on Holocaust History and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. The Institute, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, brings together faculty and advanced graduate students in Holocaust studies from around the United States and abroad. Her research specialization concerns the experiences of Jewish women during and after the Holocaust. Her faculty advisor is Raymond Sun, associate professor of history.

In March, Jeanne Johnson (Speech and Hearing Sciences) conducted a workshop on Augmentative Communication as part of the Idaho Assistive Technology Center’s “Assistive Technology Training for Teachers” series, in Moscow.

Music faculty members Jill Schneider, organ, and David Turnbull, trumpet, presented some of the earliest music written for trumpet/organ duo at the American Guild of Organists Pullman-Moscow Chapter Organ Recital in March. Their program included music by Viviani, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Langlais, Callahan, Diemer, Lemmon, Livingstone, Lasky and Wood.

LeRoy Ashby (History) chaired one of the prize committees of the Organization of American Historians for 2000-2001 and is the Steine Jonasson Lecturer for 2001 at Linfield College.

Professor Emeritus Marcel Wingate (Speech and Hearing Sciences) has been invited to participate in the development of the first national specialty examination in fluency disorders.

Amy Mazur (Political Science) was named to the Marie-Jahoda Chair in International Women’s Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, for the fall term in 2001-2002.

Erica Weintraub Austin and Bruce Pinkleton (Communication) were among approximately 10 individuals statewide called to serve on an advisory panel convened by the Washington State Dept. of Health, in February, regarding the role of school-based prevention for statewide prevention priorities and the Tobacco Control Plan in the legislature. They have also received a grant to perform an evaluation of a media literacy-based, anti-smoking intervention designed by colleagues at the University of Washington, for the Tobacco Legacy Foundation and the State Dept. of Health.

In March, Gene Rosa (Sociology) gave an invited presentation at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., titled “The Cognitive Architecture of Risk: Pancultural Unity or Cultural Variation?”

Riley E. Dunlap (Sociology) gave a lecture on “Citizen Concern for the Environment: Cross-National Evidence” at Northwestern University’s Center for International and Comparative Studies on March 8th.

Tamara Helm (Fine Arts) showed twelve drawings and six paintings, “Faces and Heads,” at the Women’s Center during Women’s History Month. “Faces and Heads” portrayed famous women writers in history, some of whom have won Pulitzer prizes in literature and other distinctions. For example, Beryl Markham, the first person to fly across the Atlantic from England to North America was represented. A final showing was featured at Women’s Recognition Luncheon at the CUB on March 29.

Riley Dunlap (Sociology) gave a presentation on “Public Support for the Environmental Movement” at his alma mater, San Francisco State University, on February 20, that was co sponsored by SFSU’s Department of Sociology and Program in Environmental Studies. He was recently appointed to a three-year term as a member of the Advisory Panel for the Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy. The Spivack Program is one of the American Sociological Association’s core programs within the Executive Office directed to drawing the links between sociological (social science) knowledge and broad issues of social policy.

Michael Myers (Philosophy) delivered a talk at the UI/WSU Philosophy Colloquium. His talk was entitled “A Defense of Henotheism.” Henotheism is the “tendency of the worshipper to treat the particular god or goddess whom s/he is venerating as all-powerful and supreme, as though s/he were the only god, for the moment at least, to the exclusion of all others.”

Sociology majors Jaymie Parkhurst, Stacy Bauer, Kelle Kennedy and Wendy Paulson have been elected into the Mortar Board Honor Society.

Paul Brians (English) has been notified of further recognition for his Web sites. OuterNotes, “a twice-weekly newsletter devoted to sites, articles and gadgets of interest to content creators reviewed the site.” The review can be seen at www.trottamedia.com/outernotes/ON010213.cfm. European Internet Network (EIN) included his site in their “Russia search directory” and the March issue of ”On Target” published an article about it. It also received a Star Award from the Awesome Library and was added to a directory of the top 2 percent of educational sites by bigchalk. In a Writers’ Forum feature it was listed among the best 50 Web sites.

Congratulations are in order! A book co-authored by Nicholas Lovrich (Political Science), former CLA Dean John Pierce and others has been nominated for a Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociology Association’s Section on Environment and Technology. The book is titled Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia.

Wendy Dasler Johnson (English) will present two papers at scholarly gatherings in Europe this summer. She will participate in the July faculty colloquium of an international project on “Voice” in Bayreuth, Germany, delivering the paper “‘Other’ Voices in Early Modern Rhetoric.” Also in July, she will give the paper “Black U.S. Ventriloquist Poet: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper,” at the International Society for the History of Rhetoric in Warsaw, Poland. Her article “Cultural Rhetorics of Women’s Corsets,” has been accepted for fall 2001 publication in the journal Rhetoric Review.

Victoria Arthur (doctoral student, English) presented her paper “Colleagues as Context: When Our Colleagues Read Our Students’ Writing...And Our Teaching” as a member of the “Class, Classrooms, and Community: How Does Who We Are and Where We Teach Influence How We Teach Writing?” panel at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in Denver, Colo.

On March 16 Mary Blair-Loy (Sociology) presented a paper, “Work Devotion: A Cultural Schema Shaping Career Commitment among Female Executives,” at the Berkeley Journal of Sociology Conference on Work at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jeannette Mageo (Anthropology) organized a session on “Gender History in the Pacific” for the 30th annual meetings of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania, in Miami, Florida. She presented papers there entitled “Slip-Sliding Gender in Samoan Colonial History” and “Half-Caste Dreams: Race, Colonialism and Embodiment in Samoa.” Mageo presented a paper entitled “Towards a Polythetic Model of the Self” at the 99th annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in San Francisco. She also showed the film for which she consulted and in which she appears, Boys will be Girls in Samoa for the ethnographic film festival at the meetings.

Camille Roman (English) will give a paper on gender fluidity in the love lyrics of Elizabeth Bishop and D.H. Lawrence at the International D.H. Lawrence Conference in Naples, Italy, in June.

Otwin Marenin (Political Science/Criminal Justice) was invited to be lead presenter at a workshop on “Managing the Context of Police Reform–Implications for International Assistance,” organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, England) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (Geneva, Switzerland), to be held in Geneva in April 2001. He will present a paper on “Approaches to Police Reform.”

Steven Kale (History) presented a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in March entitled “High Society and the Organization of Political Life in Early Nineteenth-Century France.”

Brenna Helm (BFA Honors Program ’97) has 16 new paintings on display at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle. Artist reception is Thursday, April 5, from 6-8 p.m. Brenna lives in Pullman and works for the WSU Museum of Art.

Members of the Anthropology faculty have recent books: Linda Stone is editor of New Directions in Anthropological Kinship and author of Kinship and Gender: An Introduction; and Jeannette Mageo edited Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific.

Paul Lee (Fine Arts) presented his art in the Through Our Eyes Lecture Series in Seattle at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in March.

Delia D. Aguilar (CAC and Women’s Studies) has published “Revisiting Vicvic: Of Widows and Revolution” in Against the Current, March/April 2001. Aguilar also published an essay, “Globalization, Labor, and Women,” in the Working Papers Series, No. 6, of the Ethnic Studies Department, Bowling Green State University in January 2001. She also gave a talk, “Feminism and Empire,” in the Colloquium Series on Race & Gender at Portland State University in February. Aguilar and E. San Juan gave lectures on “Diaspora and Cultural Studies” and “Women and Globalization” at the School of Cultural Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in March.

Steven Kale (History) had two articles accepted for publication: “Women, the Public Sphere, and the Persistence of Salons” in French Historical Studies and “Women, Salons, and the State in France from the Napoleonic Era to the July Monarchy” in The Journal of Women’s History (for a special issue on women and the state).

The Center for Global Media Studies has published a new issue of its newsletter Global Media News. David Demers is editor/executive director . He has finished writing the second edition of “Global Media: Menace or Messiah?” The first edition, which was released in 1999, sold out. The book is published by Hampton Press and is used primarily in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in international and global communications.

Jeannette Mageo (Anthropology) edited two books, Cultural Memory: Re/Configuring History and Identity in the Pacific published by the University of Hawai’i Press and Power and the Self in press at Cambridge University Press.

A book by Erica Weintraub Austin and Bruce Pinkleton (both Communication), Strategic Public Relations Management: Planning and Managing Effective Communication Programs, was published by Erlbaum in January.

Ella Inglebret’s (Speech and Hearing Sciences) paper on tribal colleges and universities, co-authored with Michael Pavel and Susan Banks (WSU College of Education), has been accepted for publication in the Peabody Journal of Education.

Professor Emeritus Marcel Wingate’s (Speech and Hearing Sciences) letter to the editor–differentiating stuttering-like dysfluency from stuttering–will be published in the April 2001 issue of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

Rick Busselle’s (Communication) study “Television Exposure, Perceived Realism, and Exemplar Accessibility in the Social Judgment Process” was published in the latest volume of the journal “Media Psychology.”

Ellen Gorsevski researched and wrote an essay to be included in the next World Education Encyclopedia, second edition. This three-volume set features essays detailing the educational systems of about 200 countries around the world. The encyclopedia is valuable to anyone interested in comparative analysis of world education systems and a better understanding of world education in general. Gorsevski’s essay covers the educational system of Macedonia. She also wrote an opinion piece on the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which appeared in the March 14 edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Nonviolent rhetoric is Gorsevski’s area of specialization, so the article addressed specifically ELF’s claims that it is a nonviolent organization.

David Sonnenfeld (Sociology, WSU Tri-Cities) had his research on social movements and technological change cited in a new World Bank report, “Greening Industry: New Roles for Communities, Markets, and Governments,” published by Oxford University Press.

Victor Villanueva (English) has several books in various states of completion and recently sent back a signed contract for a five-book series Of Color: Literature for Composition. “One book for each of America’s people of color [African American, Latino, American Indian, Asian American] and a fifth book that will combine elements from each of the four,” he said. “I’ll be the editor of the large book and the series editor for the others. This should be a crossover series—composition, literature and ethnic studies.” His contract is with Prentice Hall.

Until April 6  One Year Later, last year’s MFA graduates, Gallery II, Fine Arts Center.

April 3  Spring Madrigal Concert, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

April 3  Foley Institute/Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society, First Tuesday Lecture, “Paying the Price of Free Speech: Where Have All the Protesters Gone?” Susan Ross, WSU, Lighty 405, 7 p.m.

April 4  Anthropology Colloquium, “Art-Worlds in India and Beyond: Studying the Economics and Aesthetics of Art and Craft Production,” Claire Wilkinson-Weber, WSU-Vancouver, College Hall 125, 12:10 p.m.

April 5  Foley Institute/Communication Media and Society Lecture, “Exit Polling and the 2000 Elections,” Kathy Frankovic, CBS NEWS and Don Dillman, WSU Sociology, Todd 216, 5 p.m.

April 5  Foley Institute/Political Science, “The Politics Surrounding Policy Formation: A Legislative Perspective,” former U.S. Representative Mike McCormack, Johnson Tower 807, 3 p.m.

April 5  Wind Symphony/Symphonic Band, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

April 6  Big Band II, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 3:10 p.m.

April 9  MFA Thesis Show Opens, Museum of Art. Exhibitors are Joel Allen, Ryan Belnap, Sarah Belnap, Tobe Harvey, Karen Kaiser, David Schu, Raylene Ward and Cynthia Zyzda. Show runs through May 12. Opening Reception on April 12.

April 9  First Year Fine Arts Graduate Exhibit, Gallery II, Fine Arts Center.

April 11  Dean’s All-College Address, FSHN T-101, 3:10 p.m.

April 11  Society for American Archaeology Symposium Presenters, Neal Endacott, Jason Fancher and Sabra Gilbert-Young, WSU anthropology graduate students, College Hall 125, 12:10 p.m.

April 12  MFA Thesis Show Opening Reception, Museum of Art, 6:30 p.m.

April 12-14  Secret Garden, Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall, 8 p.m.*

April 16  Foley Institute Lecture, “Political Change in Ukraine and the Emergence of Civil Society,” Larisa Ponomarenko, Political Psychologist and Visiting Scholar, Odessa State University, Ukraine, Johnson Tower 235C, 3:30 p.m.

April 17  Comparative American Cultures Film, Chan is Missing, discussion by Rory Ong, Wilson Hall 13, 7 p.m.

April 17  Percussion/Trumpet Ensemble Concert, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

April 18  Murrow Symposium, “Television Disease,” Bernard Shaw, CNN News Anchor, Beasley Coliseum, 7:30 p.m.

April 18  Foley Institute Public Policy Forum, “Energy Deregulation: Failure or the Future?” CUB 208, 1:30 p.m.

April 19  College of Liberal Arts Award Ceremony, Anthropology Museum, 3:30 p.m.

April 19-21  Secret Garden, Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall, 8 p.m.*

April 20-21  Mom’s Weekend.

April 24  Foreign and Security Policy Series, “The Question of National Missile Defense,” Foley Institute, WSU/UI Air Force ROTC, Johnson Tower 807, 12 p.m.

April 24  Jazz Concert, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 8 p.m.

April 25  Anthropology Colloquium, Lance Wollwage, WSU, College Hall 125, 12:10 p.m.

April 25  Dance Recital, Wadleigh Theatre, Daggy Hall, 8 p.m.

April 25, 26  Golden Grad events. Call Alumni Center for information.

April 26  Foley Institute Lecture, Michael Mintrom, Michigan State University, time and location tba.

April 26  Liberal Arts Authors’ Recognition Ceremony, Anthropology Museum, 3:30 p.m.

April 26  Choral Concert, Bryan Hall Theatre, 8 p.m.

April 27  Student Chamber Music, Kimbrough Concert Hall, 4:10 p.m.

April 27  Women’s Studies Awards, Koinonia House, 4 p.m.

May 1  Foley Institute Public Policy Symposium, “The Endangered Species Act and the Pacific Northwest: Can We Afford (Not) to Save the Salmon?” Evening panel, WSU-Vancouver campus. Specifics tba.

May 12  Commencement, College of Liberal Arts, Beasley Coliseum, 3 p.m.

*Entrance Fee

WSU alum and American Indian writer Sherman Alexie was interviewed on the CBS show “60 Minutes II” on March 21. Video and audio clips of the interview can be found on http://www.cbs.com. (Click on 60 Minutes II.)  In the “60 Minutes II” interview, Alexie, with both humor and gravity, rejects the term “Native American” and reflects on growing up on a reservation, anger and the Internet. Comments by his mother are also featured. His latest book is The Toughest Indian in the World.

Department of History

Viktor Kotsur, president of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky State Pedagogical Institute in Ukraine, spent two weeks studying university administration and world history teaching methods.

A second Ukrainian, Nataliya Borysenko, dean of the foreign languages department at the same university, spent two months studying American studies teaching methods and worked to create a new course on American studies.

Department of Political Science

Liyuan Cheng, an INTERPOL division section-chief in the Criminal Investigation Department, Ministry of Public Security in Beijing, China, is here for a year to study transnational law enforcement cooperation. He has particular interest in extradition and immigration law and policies on transnational fugitives from justice. His work is done primarily with Otwin Marenin.

Department of Psychology

Kinjiro Aoyama, assistant professor of psychology at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, recently completed a two-year stay. He studied experimental analysis of behavior with Fran McSweeney.

The Center for Global Media Studies is seeking panel ideas and papers for a July 2002 conference that focuses on the “future and implications of global mass media.” The deadline for panel submissions is September 1, 2001. The deadline for paper submissions is November 1, 2001. Panels, abstracts or papers may examine any aspect of global mass media. These may include mergers and acquisitions, history of global mass media systems and their effects on the distribution of knowledge across groups, cultures and nations. They may also include ways to reduce gaps in knowledge across cultures and nations, and the impact of the Internet on the development and dissemination of news and information around the world.

For more information contact David Demers, Director, Center for Global Media Studies, Edward R. Murrow School of Communication, 509-335-5608, demers@cgms.org.

Friday, April 20

8:00 a.m. –5:00 p.m.
First Year Graduate Students’ Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Gallery II.

10:00 a.m.–12 p.m.
Clinical Facilities Tour at Speech and Hearing Clinic, Daggy Hall.

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Art.

8:00 p.m.
Scapino, a fast paced romp based on ‘Commedia dell ‘arte’ routines, Wadleigh Theatre, Daggy Hall. $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students, graduate students free with identification.

8:00 p.m.
The Secret Garden, R. R. Jones Theatre.

Saturday, April 21

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
First Year Graduate Students’ Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Gallery II.

10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Museum of Anthropology Open House, College Hall 110.

10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Mom’s Weekend Silent Auction, Association for Women in Communications, CUB 220.

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Art.

2:00 p.m.
Scapino, a fast paced romp based on ‘Commedia dell ‘arte’ routines, Wadleigh Theatre, Daggy Hall. $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students, graduate students free with identification.

3:10 p.m.
Senior Recital: Bryan Weary, Composition, Bryan Hall Theatre.

4:10 p.m.
Junior Recital: Toshiko Honjo, Piano, Kimbrough 115.

8:00 p.m.
Scapino, a fast paced romp based on ‘Commedia dell ‘arte’ routines, Wadleigh Theatre, Daggy Hall. $8 adults, $6 seniors, $4 students, graduate students free with identification.

8:00 p.m.
The Secret Garden, R. R. Jones Theatre, Daggy Hall.

Sunday, April 22

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
First Year Graduate Students’ Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Gallery II.

1:00–5:00 p.m.
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Museum of Art.

College Authors’ Recognition Event, April 26. Martha Cottam (Political Science), Michael Myers (Philosophy) and Carol Siegel (English, Vancouver) are the authors who will discuss their books at this event. Each book will also be discussed by a CLA faculty member who is expert in the field of investigation. In addition, Chris Watts (Fine Arts) will exhibit his recent works and Greg Yasinitsky (Music), with accompanists, will perform some of his recent compositions. Come enjoy the presentations, refreshments and socializing. (See calendar for details.)

Foreign and Defense Policy Brown Bag Series is being initiated by the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy and Public Service with the WSU and UI Air Force ROTCs. The first of the informal luncheons was held in March; the next will be April 24. Discussion will center on national missile defense (see calendar). The final meeting for this year will be May 29.

A String Chamber Music Workshop and Competition will be held April 7. Sixty-five middle school and high school violin, viola, cello and bass players will come to Kimbrough Music Building. The workshop will include coaching sessions, performances by the Faculty Trio, Orchestra, and the student ensembles. Prizes are provided by SHAR Products. The coaches are WSU string faculty and members of the Washington-Idaho Symphony.

The Washington State Music Teachers’ Association State Convention will be held on the WSU campus, June 26-29. For information contact Gerald Berthiaume, 509-335-3239.

The Suzuki Institute of the Palouse, sponsored by Palouse Suzuki Strings and WSU, will be held in Kimbrough July 8-12. Drawing faculty from all over the United States, this institute provides an opportunity for students, parents and teachers to study Dr. Shinichi Suzuki’s methods for teaching violin, viola and cello. The institute will emphasize teacher development and skill enhancement. Students, ages 3 through high school, will enjoy a stimulating week working with master teachers and new friends. For more information contact Janet DeTemple, 509-334-1318.

Summer Keyboard Exploration, for students grades 7-12, features studies in classical music, jazz, electronic music and pipe organ. It will be held July 8-13. The guest artist will be Matthew Cooper, president of the Oregon Music Teachers’ Association. For more information, contact Gerald Berthiaume, 509-335-3239.