Nov. 13, 2018 Voiland College This Week

Go Cougs!

With the help of a $3 million grant from the Templeton Foundation, Lawrence Holder will collaborate with WSU biologist Michael Skinner o help develop predictive epigenetic biomarkers that help prevent diseases.

Washington State University researchers, led by graduate student Adnan Morshed and professor Prashanta Dutta, have, for the first time shown that electrical fields can be used to gain valuable information about the tiny, floating vesicles that move around in animals and plants and are critically important to many biological functions.

As part of the Rural Community Design Initiative, School of Design and Construction students are working on designs for the Pullman Depot.

Partha Pande and his co-authors received an IEEE Best Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems.

Hayden Schmidt was recently selected as Academic Services’ Student-Athlete of the Month.


Upcoming Seminars and Events

DateEventTimeLocation
Oct. 1-Nov 30Faculty Registration for Fall Commencement n/an/a 
Nov 14Global Entrepreneurship Week: Pitch Demo, Shark Tank Style6:00 PM – 8:00 PMElson S. Floyd Cultural Center
Nov 15ORAP GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP9-3 PMAsian Pacific American Cultural House
Nov 15APAC PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR SERIES: Leadership Without LimitsVariousVarious
Nov 15Seminar: “Technology Development Using Predictive Engineering & DFSS” by Dr. Arshad Alfoqaha of IBM Corporation.11 AMETRL 101
Nov 16Special Speaker-Sudip Shekhar: Photonic ICs for datacenters1:10 PMETRL 101
VariousWSU Training for Supervisors
Topics include workplace management issues, recruitment and hiring, equal opportunity, preventing sexual harassment, etc.
VariousVarious
VariousHRS Research Administration Series
Subjects include grant process, compliance, F&A costs, cost sharing, award administration, etc.
VariousVarious

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Be Safe Cougs

Voiland College Safety Committee

Voiland College Safety Committee members act as points of contact for anyone within the college to bring forward their questions or concerns about safety.

Meet your 2018-2019 Voiland College safety committee members!

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Research Opportunities

OpportunityAgencyClose Date
President’s Employee Excellence Awards
Recognizing outstanding contributions to the University by administrative professional and classified employees from across the state.
WSU11/16/2018
ASEE 2019 Curtis W. McGraw Research AwardASEE12/03/2018
Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM)NSFWSU Deadline:

1/8/2019
NSF CMMI CAREER Proposal Writing Workshop- March 25 – 27, in Charlotte, NCNSF01/08/2019
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
DOE01/10/2019
2019 JCATI Request for Proposals (PDF)JCATI03/01/2019
Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSEC)NSF ($2-4M/yr)WSU Deadline: Anticipated, 4/4/2019
Crimson Spirit AwardWSUOngoing
WSU Office of Research Information SessionsWSU Office of ResearchOngoing
ONNL Alternate Sponsored Fellowships (ASF) for Students, Faculty, and Visiting ScientistsPNNL, DOEContinuous
NSF-NIST Interaction in Basic and Applied Scientific Research in BIO, ENG, & MPS (Supplements to existing NSF awards)NSFContinuous
Experiential, Cooperative, and Work-integrated Education Research GrantsCEED- ASEEContinuous

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