Evergreen’s new green building achieves a first environmental honor

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The floors of a junior high school gym and an old building in Everett have helped to make gold.

The Evergreen State College’s Seminar II Building is the first publicly funded educational facility in Washington state to earn a ‘gold’ Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Nationally-known history and family studies professor Stephanie Coontz is the keynote speaker for the ‘Women Now’ symposium sponsored by The Evergreen State College’s graduate program in public administration, the American Society for Public Administration and Evergreen’s Extended Education program.

The event is Wednesday, April 5 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Saint Martin’s Worthington Center in Lacey.

Coontz will speak about the realities of balancing life in her talk entitled “Half the Workforce Doesn’t Have a Wife: Getting Real About Work and Family Balance.”

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Important student support programs will be honored around the nation in April and The Evergreen State College plans to make a day of it - featuring musical performances, student speakers and a keynote address.

TRIO Day at Evergreen is slated for April 12 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the college's Longhouse Education and Cultural Center. It is open to the public and free of charge.

It's good music for a good cause on Sunday, March 19.

The Evergreen State College's first “Concert for Scholarships” with Good Rockin' Blues by Alice Stuart and The Formerlys - and Higher Energy Funky Grooves by The Jude Bowerman Band.

Tickets are available at www.BuyOlympia.com, Orca Books and The Evergreen Bookstore. Remaining tickets go on sale at the box office two hours before the concert. Reception only: $10. Concert only: $18

OLYMPIA -- Less than a week after Tom Boatright announced his resignation as men's soccer coach at The Evergreen State College, the Geoducks have announced that long-time South Puget Sound Community College coach John Purtteman has been hired to fill the position.

"This was the easiest hire we have made since I have been at Evergreen," said sixth-year athletics director Dave Weber. "Like Tom and our women's coach, Erik Gibson-Snyder, John is another graduate of the great Geoduck teams coached by Arno Zoske and he's proven himself in a decade of college coaching at SPSCC."

OLYMPIA , Wash. -- A new language center has opened at The Evergreen State College this week, creating a space that can be used by students — as well as faculty and staff to learn or brush up on foreign languages.

The new center is located in the Seminar II Building, room A3116.

Information for students, staff and faculty:

A free dinner service is planned for meal plan holders only TONIGHT (Monday) from 5:30-7 p.m. at The Market (2nd floor CAB). The meal will include pizza selections, salad and beverage.

Diners will be required to scan their meal cards to verify participation in a meal plan - but there will be no charge for the meal. This includes students in the EF program. Meal plans include both those with block meals and declining balance plans.

EPA, Washington State Senate honor Evergreen's commitment

OLYMPIA , Wash. -- The Evergreen State College and the hard work of students have been recognized with two distinct honors in the past week for the college's commitment to renewable energy.

Evergreen State College professor Dr. Betty Kutter, a national leader in bacterial phage research, will give a lecture Monday, Feb. 6 from 3:30 - 5 p.m. on the Evergreen campus in the Seminar II Building, room D 1105.

The presentation is titled "Fighting Bacterial Infections Along the Silk Roads: Tbilisi, Georgia and the development of bacteriophages as natural, self-replicating and self-limiting antibiotics."

SEATTLE (Nature Conservancy) - Nalini Nadkarni, a professor at The Evergreen State College in Olympia and renowned forest canopy specialist, returns to the board of trustees for the Washington chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the organization announced Friday.