Symposia & Colloquia
Research & Methods Symposia
The Research and Methods Symposium is a venue for faculty and graduate students to present their research, with a particular focus on methodological issues, both quantitative and qualitative. It provides an opportunity for researchers to get feedback on their work from a friendly audience and offers department members an opportunity to learn what their colleagues are doing and stay up-to-date on the latest developments in social science methodology. Since its inception in the fall of 2003, the symposium has sponsored almost two dozen talks by faculty, graduate students, and guests from other universities.
Joseph Kruzel Memorial Foreign & Defense Policy Luncheon Series
Since 1997, the Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service at WSU has sponsored a unique and bridge-building series involving faculty, military officers, and graduate students from across the WSU, University of Idaho, and Lewis-Clark State College campus communities. Also providing co-sponsorship over the past few years have been the WSU College of Liberal Arts and the WSU Department of Political Science.
The Joseph Kruzel Memorial Foreign and Defense Policy Luncheon Series was named after a U.S. diplomat and assistant secretary of defense who was killed during a peace mission to Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1995 and established to carry on a tradition he began at the Mershon Center of The Ohio State University prior to his government service. Recognizing that there were no real forums for scholars, graduate students, and military practitioners from across scattered campus communities to interact with one another under normal circumstances, Dr. Kruzel established informal, monthly luncheon sessions in which presentations would be given on various foreign and defense policy topics, followed by meaningful discussions and interactions among the assembled specialists in these fields.
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