Mar. 13, 2018 Voiland College This Week

Go Cougs!

Gregory Kessler’s artwork, “Fire,” is featured in Fusion Art’s 2^nd Annual Colors Exhibit.

Ph.D. candidate Gregory Collinge received a highly selective Belgian American Educational Foundation fellowship.

Jin Liu has been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering.

John McCloy has been promoted to Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering.

Hussein Zbib in the School of Mechanical Engineering has been promoted to the rank of Regents Professor.

Messiha Saad has been promoted to Clinical Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Several WSU Vancouver students who formed the Community of Women Engineers club to strengthen the connection between women in engineering and the community that surrounds them were featured in a story in the VanCougar

Dishary Banerjee won Voiland College’s first annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition. She will represent VCEA at the WSU 3MT competition on March 28.

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Voiland College in the News

Science Blog

• Researchers Use Single-Atom Catalyst, Convert CO To CO2

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• How one group is hashing out smart city ideas for the globe

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Upcoming Seminars and Events

Date	Event	Time	Venue
Various	Career & Professional Development Employer Information Sessions	Various	Various
Mar 19	Donuts with the Dean	9 AM	Carpenter 1st Floor
Mar 19	Lecture by Abdelrhman Mohamed, PhD Student, Voiland School, "Electrochemically Active Biofilms: Scale-up, Instrumentation, and Applications in Wastewater Treatment"	4:10-5 PM	ADBF 1002/Floyd 256 (Tri-Cities)
Mar 20	Boeing Day at WSU	various	various
Mar 21	VCEA Safety Training	8:30 AM	PACCAR 135
Mar 21	GALLERY OPENING: “Revitalizing Rural Environments Symposium Exhibition”	4:30 PM	Carpenter Gallery
Mar 22	MME Seminar Series Welcomes Professor David A Weitz, Harvard University	11 AM	ETRL 101
Mar 24	Kids’ Science in Engineering Day	10-2 PM	CUE
Mar 26	2018 Ensor Lectureship	4 PM	Floyd CC
Mar 28	Cougs Give	All Day	online
3/27 – 4/2	WSU Showcase	Various	Various
April 2-5	Week of Women in STEM: Featuring WSU alum Gerri Martin Flickinger, Starbucks Exec VP and CTO,   giving the keynote address on April 3.	Various	Various
April 4	EECS Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Featuring Partha Ranganathan, Distinguished Engineer and technical lead for hardware and datacenters at Google.	3 PM	ETRL 101
April 5	Lanning Lecture: Featuring former WSU professors Uma and Jay Jayaram, founder of 3D-4U, a pioneering virtual reality company that provided the VR experiences for the 2018 Winter Olympics.	3:10 PM	Goertzen 21

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Award and 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
Crimson Spirit Award	WSU	Ongoing
WSU Office of Research Information Sessions	WSU Office of Research	Ongoing
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
Environmental Education Local Grants Program	EPA	03/15/2018
High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Collaboration Grant Proposals	DOE	03/15/2018
VCEA Outreach, Connection, and Engagement Award Nominations Due to John Schneider	VCEA	03/23/2018
JCATI Symposium	JCATI	04/12/2018
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
SURCA Undergraduate Grants	WSU Emeritus Society	03/19/2018
Top Ten Senior Awards	WSU Alumni Assoc	03/27/2018

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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.