Jan. 29, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Be Safe Cougs

Required Safety Training

Do you know what a CTD is? Or what kind of fires your fire extinguisher CAN’T put out? Learn this and more when you complete the required new online safety trainings by April 1, 2019.


Upcoming Seminars and Events

DateEventTimeLocation
Jan 29Donuts with the Dean10:40 –11:20 AMVCEA Tutoring Dana 152
Jan 30Undergraduate Research Mixer presented by SWE4:30 PMFloyd Center
Jan 31Summer Undergraduate Research Information Session hosted by Shelley Pressley, Director – WSU Office of Undergraduate Research5 PMCUE 405
Jan 31MME Seminar – “Touch-Display Module Design and Manufacture” by Kameron J. Bumb, Hardware Engineering Director—DfX, Microsoft Devices11 AMETRL 101
Feb 4VSCEB Seminar by Motahare Athariboroujeny, Ph.D. Candidate, Voiland School “Using Chemical Transient Kinetics to understand mechanism of CO hydrogenation reaction over cobalt based catalysts4:10PMSPARK G45/ Floyd 210 (WSU Tri-Cities)
Feb 5Career Expo10 – 3 PMBeasley
Feb 15Engineers Without Borders Fundraiser and Auction6:30 PMEnsminger
Feb 25Ensor Lecture featuring National Academy of Engineering’s Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos4 PMSpark G45
Mar 4Hohenschuh Lecture featuring Cornell University’s Lawrence Bonassar4 PMSpark G45
Mar 7VCEA 3 Minute Thesis Competition2 PMETRL 101
Mar 23Kids’ Science and Engineering Day10 – 3 pmCUE
Apr 18VCEA Convocation3–4:30 pmCUB Aud
Apr 26VCEA Capstone and Internship Expo9- 12 pmCUB Senior
VariousWSU Training for Supervisors.
Topics include workplace management issues, recruitment and hiring, equal opportunity, preventing sexual harassment, etc.
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VariousHRS Research Administration Series.
Subjects include grant process, compliance, F&A costs, cost sharing, award administration, etc.
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Go Cougs!

Noel Schulz has been named the Edmund O. Schweitzer III Chair in Power Apparatus and Systems.

The Stranger featured a review of Taiji Miyasaka’s Seattle exhibit Circum∙ambience.

WSU’s Engineers Without Borders Club is helping bring clean water to a village in Panama.

Sheikh Nijam Ali, a recent graduate of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has received the 2018‑19 Pre‑doctoral Achievement Award from the IEEE Solid‑State Circuits Society.


Award and Research Opportunities

OpportunityAgencyClose Date
NEW! LIFT FellowshipWSU02/08/2018
Freeman FellowshipASCE02/10/2019
2019 JCATI Request for Proposals (PDF)JCATI03/01/2019
NEW! Karen P. DePauw Leadership and The Association for Faculty Women’s Outstanding Graduate Student AwardsWSU Graduate School03/01/2019
NEW! VCEA 3-Minute Thesis Competition NominationsVCEA03/01/2019
NEW! VCEA Staff Excellence Awards Nominations, see email from Chris Gass for detailsVCEA03/01/2019
Grace Hopper Celebration ScholarshipGHC03/06/2019
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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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:

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