Nov. 6, 2018 Voiland College This Week

Go Cougs!

WSU researchers led by Anurag Srivastava received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create software tools and simulators to enable efficient decision making by power grid operators.

Partha Pande and Deuk Heo received a US patent for their invention “Systems and Methods for Network Routing in Small-World Network-On-Chip Devices.”

Ramin Fallahzadeh, Yuchao Ma, and Seyed Ali Rokni, recent graduates from the Embedded and Pervasive Systems Lab recently joined Stanford University, Amazon.com, and Yelp, respectively.

Claire Martin was named Academic Services’ Student-Athlete of the Month.

Subhanshu Gupta was interviewed by Electropages in a story about WSU’s research that created a biofuel cell that can produce the microwatts of power needed for implantable biomedical sensor electronics.

Alla Kostyukova received a DAAD fellowship.

The Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter received an award for having the best booth at the “Halloween at Washington State” 2018 kids carnival in Beasley Coliseum.

Norbert Kruse served as the honorary chair of the 11th International Congress on Catalysis & Automotive Pollution Control in Brussels, Belgium.

Jan Boll was interviewed in a Daily Evergreen article about climate change.

Michael Wolcott was interviewed in a GreenBiz article on the aviation biofuel industry.

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Upcoming Seminars and Events

Date	Event	Time	Location
Nov 7	2019 New Faculty Seed Grant Q&A Session	11:30 AM	Lighty 280
Nov 8	Seminar: “Conglomeration of MME knowledge in mobile devices”	11 AM	ETRL 101
Nov 14	Global Entrepreneurship Week: Pitch Demo, Shark Tank Style	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM	Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center
Various	WSU Training for Supervisors Topics include workplace management issues, recruitment and hiring, equal opportunity, preventing sexual harassment, etc.	Various	Various
Various	HRS Research Administration Series Subjects include grant process, compliance, F&A costs, cost sharing, award administration, etc.	Various	Various

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Be Safe Cougs

Safety Orientation

Do you know where your office’s first aid kit can be found? How about your fire extinguishers? WSU supervisors are responsible for ensuring that employees are aware of current applicable University and departmental safety policies and procedures.

Use WSU’s safety orientation checklist (PDF) to familiarize the safety do’s and don’ts with your unit.

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

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Research Opportunities

Opportunity	Agency	Close Date
President’s Employee Excellence Awards Recognizing outstanding contributions to the University by administrative professional and classified employees from across the state.	WSU	11/16/2018
ASEE 2019 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award	ASEE	12/03/2018
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
The Visiting Faculty Program (VFP) Program 2019 Summer Term The VFP seeks to increase the research competitiveness of faculty members and their students at institutions historically underrepresented in the research community in order to expand the workforce vital to the DOE mission areas.  As part of the program, selected university/college faculty members collaborate with DOE laboratory research staff on a research project of mutual interest. Faculty member participants may invite up to two students (one of which may be a graduate student) to participate in the research project	DOE	01/10/2019
2019 JCATI Request for Proposals (PDF)	JCATI	03/01/2019
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)	NSF ($2-4M/yr)	WSU Deadline: Anticipated, 4/4/2019
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

Resources

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

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For Your Information

Open Enrollment

The annual benefits open enrollment period for eligible WSU faculty and staff begins Thursday, Nov. 1 and runs through Friday, Nov. 30. This is the one time each year changes can be made to your account without the occurrence of a special event (job change, marriage, etc.). All WSU faculty and staff system-wide can participate, regardless of location.