Aug. 21, 2018 Voiland College This Week

Go Cougs!

Adam Hahn’s insights on electrical grid cybersecurity were featured in The Conversation.

Shrunga Malavalli was featured in an ad in Washington State Magazine.

Jessica Zhou won an award from The Society of Professional Journalists.

Jake Bray won an AIChE travel award to attend the annual AIChE conference in Pittsburgh.

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Safety Tip of the Week

Keeping Wildfire Smoke Out of Buildings

Facilities Services recently transitioned all allowable buildings into air recirculation mode. This process transitions buildings so they are using more of the building’s own internal air supply, versus bringing air in from outside. Unfortunately not all buildings can be put into recirculation; some buildings (lab buildings) require 100% outside air all the time. Facilities Services will monitor the air filters in the systems and replace them frequently, but that will not completely clear the smell. You can help by:

• Closing exterior windows and doors in buildings to limit the amount of outside air coming in (and bringing smoke with it).
• For those that have fume hoods, when the hoods are not in use, please pull the sashes down. This reduces the amount of outside air they pull into the building. All hoods are equipped with filters, so air quality in the hoods will not be impacted; however, where possible we do want to keep outside air to a minimum.
• Understanding that although a building may be in recirculation mode, you will likely still smell smoke inside of the buildings.

You can monitor Pullman’s air quality. You can also follow the Pacific Northwest’s smoke plume modeling courtesy of our own Laboratory for Atmospheric Research.

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

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For Your Information

Get Connected

Here are some resources you can use to keep in touch with what’s happening around Voiland College and Washington State University.

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Upcoming Seminars and Events

Date	Event	Time	Venue
Aug 23	Voiland College Ice Cream Social	3 pm	ETRL Courtyard
Aug 27	Lecture by Jenny Voss, M.Sc. Student, Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, “Catalytic reaction of H2 and CO2 over K-promoted bimetallic CoCu catalysts”	4:10PM	ADBF 1002
Aug 29	EECS Student Club Night	4:10 PM	SPARK
Aug 29, Sept 10, 14	VCEA Safety Training	Various	Various
Sept 12	Intro to OR and the Life Cycle of a Grant	10:30 AM	Lighty 280 - RSVP
Sept 13	Intro to OR and the Life Cycle of a Grant	1:30 PM	Lighty 280 - RSVP
Sept 19	Finding Funding with Pivot	10:30 AM	Lighty 280 - RSVP
Sept 20	Finding Funding with Pivot	1:30 PM	Lighty 280 - RSVP
Sept 26	PI Roles & Responsibilities	10:30 AM	Lighty 280 - RSVP
Sept 27	PI Roles & Responsibilities	1:30 PM	Lighty 280 - RSVP

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Award and Research Opportunities

Requests for Proposals, Research Announcements, and Events

Please note: As of August 15, 2018, there are no more “submission windows” for unsolicited proposals to most of the core programs in the Engineering directorate of NSF (other directorates maintain proposal windows for unsolicited proposals). Investigators can submit proposals to these programs at any time during the year.

Opportunities and Deadlines

Opportunity	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 (Supplements to existing NSF awards)	NSF	Continuous
Experiential, Cooperative, and Work-integrated Education Research Grants	CEED- ASEE	Continuous
NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates	NSF	08/22/2018
NEW WSU Innovation I-Corps Fall Cohort	NSF/WSU	09/01/2018
EMSL Equipment Use Proposals	EMSL	09/01/2018
Major Research Instrumentation Program  (MRI) VCEA submissions must include a letter from the Assoc. Dean for Research (dfield@wsu.edu)	NSF	WSU Deadline: 09/12/2018
Enabling Quantum Leap: Convergent Accelerated Discovery Foundries for Quantum Materials Science, Engineering and Information (Q-AMASE-i)	NSF ($20-25M award)	LOI: 9/17/2018
Washington Commercialization Gap Fund	WSU	Preproposal Deadline: 9/21/2018
Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) Program	NSF	9/27/2018
Fundamental Research to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction	DOD	09/30/2018
Idaho National Laboratory Graduate Fellowship	INL	Fall 2018
NEW Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Fellowship – Post Grads	LLNL	10/01/2018
Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Student Co-op of the Year / Student Intern of the Year Award	CEED-ASEE	11/02/2018
Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM)	NSF	WSU Deadline: 1/8/2019
NSF CMMI CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop- March 25 – 27, in Charlotte, NC	NSF	01/08/2019
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)	NSF ($2-4M/yr)	WSU Deadline: Anticipated, 4/4/2019

Resources

• WSU Limited Submission Opportunities and Deadlines.
• WSU Office of Research’s Large Funding Opportunities Database.

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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, including:

WSU Honors College Research Opportunities and Internships Database.

Voiland College Career & Internship Center.

WSU’s student employment/internship portal: Handshake.