Events
Thursday, August 29
@ 9 am – 10:30 am
MATLAB Session for Washington State University and the University of Idaho
Joint session for Washington State University and the University of Idaho to learn more about MATLAB, Simulink and other MathWorks tools.
@ 10 am to 2 pm
Student success grand re-opening!
Let your students know about the grand re-opening of VCEA’s Student Success offices: Free LinkedIn Headshots! Cake! Come explore Career Services, Tutoring and the Student Collaboration Zone!
@10 am to 11:15 am
Advice on NSF proposal for early career faculty
Join the Office of Research for a special presentation from Sue Kemnitzer, who recently retired from a long career in leadership positions at NSF in science, engineering and natural resource management.
@10:30 am
MME Seminar: Lab Safety with Shawn Ringo and Jason Sampson
Please join us for a lab safety seminar presented by representatives from the WSU Environmental Health & Safety
@11:30 am
“Moving from Single PI to Centers & Large Multi-University Proposals – Lessons learned”
Join the Office of Research for a special presentation from Sue Kemnitzer, who recently retired from a long career in leadership positions at NSF in science, engineering and natural resource management.
@ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Women Seeking Grants Workshop
ADVANCE at WSU and the Association for Faculty Women present a workshop designed for faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral students to identify and overcome challenges associated with seeking research funding.
Friday, August 30
@ 12:00 PM
WSU Bremerton Seminar: Divergent Thinking in Engineering Design
Dan Preston is the Chief Technology Officer of Clarovia Technologies, a firm that develops and manages intellectual property.
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Go Cougs!
The WSU Society of Women Engineers is featured on the Voiland College web page.
Voiland College has received the Bronze Award from ASEE’s Diversity Recognition Program’s Bronze Award for increasing the diversity and inclusion and degree attainment outcomes of our programs.
An interdisciplinary research team led by Candis Claiborn, Olusola Adesope, and Angela Minichiello will study ways to improve retention of students in engineering and computer science.
Fox News interviewed Lloyd Smith on his research into Major League Baseball’s surge in home runs.
John McCloy and Katie Zhong received Fulbright awards to study and conduct research in the United Kingdom and Singapore, respectively.
WSU Vancouver’s Xuechen Zhang was one of seven winners of the Department of Energy’s $300,000 Electricity Industry Technology & Practices Innovation Challenge.
Washington Senator Emily Randall (26th District) toured of WSU Engineering Bremerton’s classrooms and labs.
WSU’s Philip Dodge was featured in a Kitsap Sun article about WSU Bremerton’s undergraduate internship program with the U.S. Navy and Olympic College
With approval by WSU’s faculty senate, the Center for Materials Research has been renamed the Washington State University Institute of Materials Research (WSU-IMR). With the goal of incentivizing collaboration and multi-disciplinary research efforts, the university administration has approved a cost-match model, in which the institute will receive matching F&A funds from the central administration to reinvest in the Materials Science and Engineering graduate program and the institute’s instrumentation infrastructure.
Opportunities
Sept. 4: VPR Lecture Series: “Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Quantum Information Sciences”
The Office of Research will kick off the 2019–2020 Vice President for Research Distinguished Lecture Series with a talk by Nathan Baker, director for the Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).
Sept. 5: Physics & Astronomy 100 Years Celebration
The Department of Physics & Astronomy is celebrating 100 Years of Education, Discovery, and Innovation. Highlights of the Sept. 5 event include Distinguished Colloquium presented by Dr. Dickinson 4:10-5:00 p.m. followed by dedication of the J. Thomas Dickinson Undergraduate Study in Webster Hall and a community-wide reception 5:00-6:30 p.m. Details about this and other 100th anniversary events.
WSU I-Corps Entrepreneurship Program – Apply by Sept. 6
WSU I-Corps is a National Science Foundation funded program enabling students, faculty, staff, and community members to catalyze their technology and innovation concepts for high-growth start-up companies by utilizing LEAN Startup Methodologies. The 10-week course provides teams with education, resources, mentors, and funding to conduct discovery and determine if their innovation is a product-market fit. Apply by September 6.
ORAP “Pitching the Business Value of Your Research” Competition
Cash awards to support lab accounts. Applications are due Sept. 9.
Faculty Award Nominations Due September 13
Faculty awards are given annually by WSU to honor those faculty members who epitomize the highest levels of excellence in the pursuit of the university’s mission and goals. Learn more and nominate a faculty member.
ORAP Travel Grant Competition – Apply by Sept 15
Applications are due Sept. 15.
ORAP RA and $10K Competition – Apply by Sept 24
Opportunity for $10,000 and a doctoral-level research assistant for the calendar year 2020. Applications are due Sept. 24.
ORAP Team Planning Grant – Apply by Oct. 1
Opportunity to win $50,000 plus a two‑semester doctoral-level research assistant to develop an extramural center-type grant proposal. Applications are due by Oct. 1.
NSF – Research Traineeship Program – Apply by Oct. 17
WSU ORAP is now accepting limited submission pre-proposals for the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) program. The NRT is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, and potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training.
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program –Apply by Oct. 22
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions.
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