Feb. 6, 2018 Voiland College This Week

Go Cougs!

Mona Ghandi received the 2018 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Architecture.

The Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture’s online Master of Engineering and Technology Management (METM) program is once again ranked among the best online graduate programs in the nation.

Several computer science Ph.D. candidates from WSU’s Embedded and Pervasive Systems Lab recently earned awards:

• Seyed Ali Rokni won the Russ and Anne Fuller Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research/Scholarship.
• Ramin Fallahzadeh won the Russ and Anne Fuller Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research/Scholarship.
• Yuchao Ma received a NSF-supported 2018 IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics and Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks Conference (BSN) Student Travel Award.

WSU Insider featured a story about several Voiland College students’ experience at the Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest technical conference in the world for women in computing.

Goldwater Scholar Amelia Brown is featured on Voiland College’s home page.

Nelson Treehouse and Supply, the company behind Animal Planet’s popular “Treehouse Masters” TV series, highlighted the findings of WSU’s Simpson Strong-Tie lab tests of their equipment.

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Voiland College in the News

The Chemical Engineer

• New catalyst for hydrogen production

The Engineer

• Nanofoam synthesis method could unlock hydrogen economy

Architect Magazine

• The Vilcek Foundation Honors Immigrant Architects with 2018 Vilcek Prizes (registration required)

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Did You Know?

On Thursday, Feb. 22, the Carpenter Hall elevator will be closed from approximately 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm. To sign up for Facilities Services notices, please go to the MyFacilities Site , click on the Event Notification on the left hand navigation window, and follow the information provided.

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Safety Tip of the Week

Give Me a Break

Many work-related injuries and illnesses occur when an employee is tired or groggy.

According to Washington state law, workers must be given a ten-minute break per every 4 hours worked or mini breaks totaling ten minutes. One fifteen-second break from looking at the computer every ten minutes has been shown to decrease fatigue by 50 percent.

For more safety information, contact Environmental Health and Safety at ehs@wsu.edu.

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Upcoming Seminars and Events

Date	Event	Time	Venue
Various	Professional Practice and Experiential Learning Employer Information Sessions	Various	Various
Feb 7	Boeing Career Development Lecture Series	4 PM	Todd 121
Feb 7	GALLERY OPENING: “Out in Front: Challenges and Solutions in Landscape Architecture”	4:30 PM	Carpenter Hall Gallery
NEW Feb 8	Seminar Series Presents Dr. Stephen D. Antolovich, WSU Emeritus Professor	11 AM	ETRL 101
NEW Feb 9	Porous Media Seminar Presents Marc Weber: "Using anti-something to learn about nothing: Positrons as a tool to investigate porosity.”	4:10 PM	ETRL 101
NEW Feb 12	Lecture by Helena Zomer, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Washington, “Influence of The Source Of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Tissue Engineering: Dermal Versus Adipose Tissue in Skin Wound Healing”	4:10-5 PM	ADBF 1002/Floyd 256 (Tri-Cities)
NEW Feb 13	VCEA Lab Safety- LAR	11:10 AM	PACCAR 305
NEW Feb 14	Architecture Faculty Lecture: Juliette Dubroca	5:30 PM	Spark G45
NEW Mar 9	VCEA 3-Minute Thesis Qualifying Round	2 PM	ETRL 101
NEW Mar 28	2018 Ensor Lectureship	4 PM	Floyd CC
NEW Mar 24	Kids’ Science in Engineering Day	Various	Dana Hall
April 2	SURCA	n/a	CUB
April 12	Voiland College Convocation	3:30 PM	Daggy Hall Jones Theatre
NEW April 18	2018 Hohenschuh Lectureship	4:10 PM	Floyd CC
April 27	VCEA Capstone Expo	9 AM – 12 PM	Floyd CC
June 24 – 27	ASEE 125th  Annual Conference & Exposition	Various	Salt Lake City, UT

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Research Opportunities

Requests for Proposals, Research Announcements, and Events

For a more complete listing of research funding opportunities, contact Dave Field.

Title	Agency	Close Date
ONNL Alternate Sponsored Fellowships (ASF) for Students, Faculty, and Visiting Scientists	PNNL, DOE	Continuous
NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG, & MPS	NSF	Continuous
LIFT Faculty Fellowship	WSU Transformational Change Initiative	02/09/18
Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet	EPA	02/07/2018
Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES)	National Science Foundation	02/07/2018 (INTERNAL DEADLINE (PDF))
Enhanced Superconductors for Future Naval Applications	Department of Defense, Navy	02/10/2018
ARPA-E OPEN Solicitation	DOE	02/12/2018
BRAIN Initiative:  Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)	NIH	02/23/2018
Academic-Industrial Partnerships to Translate and Validate in vivo Cancer Imaging Systems	NIH	03/01/2018
VCEA Safety Award Nominations Due (PDF)	VCEA	03/02/2018
VCEA Jr. Faculty Research Award (PDF) Nominations Due	VCEA	03/02/2018
VCEA Faculty Excellence Awards Nominations Due (PDF)	VCEA	03/02/2018
VCEA Staff Excellence Awards Nominations Due (PDF)	VCEA	03/02/2018
2018 JCATI Requests for Proposals: JCATI provides short term funding via academic collaboration for WA aerospace companies with technology roadblocks.	JCATI	03/02/2018
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers (RERC) Program: RERC on Rehabilitation Strategies, Techniques, and Interventions	Health & Human Services	03/12/2018
Environmental Education Local Grants Program	EPA	03/15/2018
NEW High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Collaboration Grant Proposals	DOE	03/15/2018
Expeditions in Computing	NSF	04/25/2018
Joint Center for Deployment and Research in Earth Abundant Materials (PDF)	JCDREAM	04/30/2018
Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction	DOD	09/30/2018
Catalysis	NSF	10/22/2018
Fluid Dynamics	NSF	10/22/2018
Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers	NSF	09/05/2018
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program	NSF	09/27/2018
WSU Office of Research’s Large Funding Opportunities Database

For Students and Postdocs

Title	Agency	Close Date
WSU Office of Undergraduate Research Awards Application – application deadline	WSU	02/15/2018
Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship	AnitaB.org	03/07/2018
NEW Washington State Opportunity Scholarship	WSOS	02/28/2018
SURCA Undergraduate Grants	WSU Emeritus Society	03/19/2018

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WSU Student Research Opportunities and Internships

WSU offers a number of opportunities available to undergraduate students who wish to gain experiences working in their field of interest.

Visit the Honors College website for announcements about job openings and internships at WSU.