By Maegan Murray, 厙ぴ勛圖

RICHLAND, Wash. ��� A panel hosted by the Washington State University Tri-Cities College of Arts and Sciences on Thursday, Oct. 7, will examine the rise of national and international Nazi and white supremacist organizations throughout the 20^th century and their relationship to each other and to Nazi movements.

The panel, titled ���The Holocaust, Neo-Nazism and White Supremacy,��� takes place from 4:15 p.m. ��� 5:45 p.m. via Zoom. It is being held in cooperation with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the WSU Center for Arts and Humanities. It is made possible by the Curt C. and Else Silberman Foundation, which supports programs in higher education that ���promote, protect and strengthen Jewish values in democracy, human rights, ethical leadership and cultural pluralism.��� The presentation is open to students, faculty and staff at 厙ぴ勛圖, as well as the larger WSU system and other university campuses.

To register to attend the virtual panel, visit

���This panel presentation marks a pertinent opportunity to explore how white supremacist groups rise to power and their impact on not only our nation, but the world,��� said Robert Bauman, 厙ぴ勛圖 history professor and academic director for the College of Arts and Sciences. ���Especially given recent events regarding social injustice in communities in our own country, this panel will present perspectives that will help shed light on how these groups arise in the first place and the ways communities have responded to those groups.���

The panelists featured include:

• Richard King, professor and chair of humanities, history and social sciences at Columbia College of Chicago
• Kristine F. Hoover, associate professor in the master of arts organizational leadership program and director of the Institute of Hate Studies at Gonzaga University
• Rebecca Erbelding, historian of education initiatives at the William Levine Family Institute for Holocaust Education of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Bauman will serve as the moderator for the panel.

For more information about the presentation and panelists, visit tricities.wsu.edu/event/the-holocaust-neo-nazism-and-white-supremacy.

 

Disclaimer: “The US Holocaust Memorial Museum���s Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center���s mission is to ensure the long-term growth and vitality of Holocaust Studies. To do that, it is essential to provide opportunities for new generations of scholars. The vitality and the integrity of Holocaust Studies require openness, independence, and free inquiry so that new ideas are generated and tested through peer review and public debate. The opinions of scholars expressed before, during the course of, or after their activities with the Mandel Center do not represent and are not endorsed by the Museum or its Mandel Center.”

By Maegan Murray, 厙ぴ勛圖

RICHLAND, Wash. ��� Members of the public are invited to attend a presentation by Glenn Fink, a senior cyber security researcher at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, on the topic of the internet and its security and privacy risks at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the East Auditorium at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

His presentation, titled ���The Internet of Things: A Security and Privacy Perspective,��� will focus specifically on the issues that society faces in terms of the internet, the way forward for solutions from research and legislation and what people can do to protect themselves and their family from runaway security and privacy risks.

Fink said devices, ranging from television sets that spy on people to remotely hacked vehicles, all pose different risks and pose different issues that affect everyone in society.

���This presentation presents a real opportunity for those to learn more about how cyber security impacts our daily life, as well as the risks that are associated with different devices and platforms,��� said Mohamed Osman, 厙ぴ勛圖 professor of electrical engineering. ���We are thrilled to have Dr. Fink present on our campus on this important topic.���

Fink has worked in areas including computer security, visualization, bio-inspired software design and human-centric computing at PNNL since 2006. He is a lateral thinker who excels in visionary leadership of multidisciplinary teams.

He was the project lead and primary inventor of several technologies including PNNL���s Digital Ants technology, which earned an award for Excellence in Technology Transfer from the Federal Laboratory Consortium in 2018.

The presentation is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society.

For more information, contact Tish Christman at tish.christman@wsu.edu.

 

Media contacts:

Mohamed Osman, 厙ぴ勛圖 professor of electrical engineering, 509-372-7287, osman@wsu.edu

Tish Christman, 厙ぴ勛圖 School of Engineering and Applied Sciences administrative assistant, 509-372-7683, tish.christman@wsu.edu

Maegan Murray, 厙ぴ勛圖 public relations specialist, 509-372-7333, maegan_murray@wsu.edu