Go Cougs!
Susmita Bose, this year’s WSU Distinguished Faculty Address Speaker, was featured in the WSU Insider.
Marvin Pitts received WSU’s Sahlin Faculty Excellence Award for Leadership.
Jason Peschel received WSU’s President’s Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Tenure Track Faculty.
Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee’s Choose Washington NMA Council announced Noel Schulz as a co-chair of the effort to solidify Washington as the preferred location for design, production, and final assembly of an all-new aircraft under study by the Boeing Company.
Hal Calbom’s documentary film, IMAGINING TOMORROW: STEM and the Future of Work, premiered at the Murrow Symposium.
WSU’s smart city project Urbanova is a finalist in IDC’s Smart Cities Awards.
The Composite Materials & Engineering Center (CMEC)’s groundbreaking research in cross-laminated timber (CLT) was featured in a promotional video by Katerra shown at the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, OR.
Gordon Taub was featured in a story in The Everett Herald.
Student clubs put on a very successful Kids’ Science and Engineering Day.
Upcoming Seminars and Events
| Date | Event | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Various | Career & Professional Development Employer Information Sessions | various | various |
| 3/27 – 4/2 | WSU Showcase | Various | Various |
| Mar 27 | WSU President’s State of the University Address | 3:10 PM | Bryan Hall Auditorium and online |
| Mar 28 | NEW Distinguished Faculty Address: 3D Printing in Bone Health Presented by Dr. Susmita Bose | 3:45 PM | Goertzen 21 |
| Mar 28 | Cougs Give | All Day | online |
| Mar 28 | WSU Three-Minute Thesis Finals: Come cheer on VCEA’s Dishary Banerjee! | 1 PM | Spark Atrium |
| 3/29 – 3/31 | Revitalizing Rural Environments: Workshop & Symposium | Various | Various |
| Mar 29 | MME Seminar Series Dr. Xiao-Yang Yu- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Senior Scientist, Ph.D., Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate | 11 AM | ETRL 101 |
| Mar 30 | WSU Plant Science Symposium | Various | streaming |
| 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 | SDC Distinguished Guest Lecture Series: Cary Moon | 4:45 PM | Goertzen 21 |
| April 4 | NEW EECS Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Featuring Partha Ranganathan, Distinguished Engineer and technical lead for hardware and datacenters at Google. | 3:10 PM | ETRL 101 |
| April 5 | Lanning Lecture: Featuring former WSU professors Uma and Jay Jayaram, founders of 3D-4U, a pioneering virtual reality company that provided the VR experiences for the 2018 Winter Olympics. | 3:10 PM | Goertzen 21 |
| April 6 | NEW TIME VCEA Town Hall Meeting | 3 PM | ETRL 101 + AMS |
| April 9 | GALLERY OPENING: “Precedents: Highlights from the Global History of Design” | 4:30 PM | Carpenter Hall Gallery |
| April 10 | SEL Key Note: Fostering free enterprise, inventing the future. Feat. Edmund O. Schweitzer III, Ph.D., President, Chairman of the Board, CTO Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) | 2 PM | CUB Sr. Ballroom And online |
| April 11 | Architecture Faculty Lecture: Taiji Miyasaka | 5:30 PM | Spark G45 |
| April 12 | MME Seminar Series Welcomes: Dr. Anil V. Virkar, University of Utah | 11 AM | ETRL |
| April 12 | Voiland College Convocation | 3:30 PM | Daggy Hall Jones Theatre |
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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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Top Ten Senior Awards | WSU Alumni Assoc | 03/27/2018 |
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.
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