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John McCloy has received the prestigious Richard M. Fulrath Award from the American Ceramic Society.
Parastoo Alinia won WSU’s Graduate & Professional Student Association’s (GPSA) Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair Balasingam Muhunthan has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Shandong University, China.
Noah Geilenfeldt, Carter Moore, Eric Hjort, and Wyatt Antonie recently participated in a Dept. of Energy Cyber Defense Competition at PNNL, where they had to protect power grid control systems from hackers. The competition included teams from across the country and was held across three national lab facilities.
Congrats to all the students who competed at the AIChE Regional Conference last weekend!
- Kitana Kaiphanliam: 1st place in the Paper Competition.
- Kristian Gubsch: 3rd place in the Paper Competition.
- Chem-E-Car Team: 1st place in poster Competition.
SURCA Awards
Congratulations to our student SURCA Award Winners!
Crimson Award: Seth McPherson, mentor Kelvin Lynn, “Production Strategies for Tailored Source Material Used in High Efficiency Solar Cells.”
Gray Award: Stephen Bone, mentor Alla Kostyukova, “Engineering Glucose Oxidase for Efficient Ni-NTA Purification”; co-presenters Mohammed Alzawad, Kaycee Faber, Raquel Murillo, and Sarah Schroeder, mentor Nehal Abu-Lail, “Biofilm Growth of Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli during Exposure to Natural Antibiotics.”
Novice Award: Alexa Antalan, mentors Jinwen Zhang, Junna Xin, and Ran Li, “Preliminary Investigation of Waste Cooking Oil-Based Bio-asphalt and Reinforcement with Lignin-Based Epoxy”; and Yoni Rodriguez, mentor Von Walden, “Development of an Air Quality Sensor for Use in Teaching Introductory Environmental Engineering.”
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Upcoming Seminars and Events
Date | Event | Time | Venue |
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Various | Career & Professional Development Employer Information Sessions | various | various |
April 18 | NEW Vice President for Research Distinguished Lecture: We Have Entered the Era of Rewriting the Genome” Bruce Whitelaw, Ph.D. Chair of Edinburgh Genomics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland | 2 PM | PACCAR 202 |
April 19 | Evening for Women in STEM | 6 PM | WSU Everett |
April 19 | MME Seminar Series: Dr. Anamika Dubey- WSU EECS | 11 AM | ETRL 101 |
April 20 | NEW Microsoft’s Rick Bakken on Microsoft Cloud Service | 4 PM | Spark 335 |
April 23 | NEW Lecture by Jerome Babauta, Sales Engineer, Gamry Instruments, "Applications of electrochemistry in industry and its impact on education” | 4:10-5 PM | ADBF 1002/Floyd 256 (Tri-Cities) |
April 23 | NEW Donuts with the Dean | 2 PM | Wegner G50 |
April 24 | WSU Multidisciplinary Research Flash Talk | 5:30 PM | Floyd CC |
April 25 | Landscape Architecture: Snake River waterfront presentations | 1:30 PM | Carpenter 412 |
April 26-27 | NEW WSU Interior Design Seattle Spring Events | various | various |
April 27 | NEW EECS Faculty/Staff/Student Awards Ceremony | 3 PM | Honors Hall Lounge rm 110 |
April 27 | VCEA Capstone Expo | 9- 12 PM | Floyd CC |
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For Your Information
Nominations Sought for 2018 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards
The Council of Graduate Schools seeks nominations for the 2018 CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards in the following fields: 1) Mathematics, Physical Sciences, and Engineering and 2) Social Sciences.
Sponsored jointly by CGS and ProQuest and first presented in 1981, these awards are made annually to individuals who, in the opinion of the award committee, have completed dissertations representing original work that make an unusually significant contribution to the discipline.
Each university may only submit one nomination from each field.
VCEA Faculty- Please work with your school director if you would like to nominate a student for the award. Submissions are due no later than May 1, 2018.
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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