Philip Virtue, Corey Ndifon, Alex White, and Maximilian Obasiolu were featured in a WSU Insider article about their waste-to-energy project that is entered in the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge set for April 1.
You can watch Amit Bandyopadhyay’s WSU Distinguished Faculty Address at the Showcase website.
Dan Dolan received the National Institute of Building Sciences Building Seismic Safety Council’s Excellence Award.
Susan Lewis received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.
Arjak Bhattacharjee won the VCEA Three-Minute Thesis Competition.
Venera Arnaoudova, Stephen Austin, Julia Day, Subhanshu Gupta, Qizhen Li, Jacob Murray, Min-Kyu Song, Anurag Srivastava, John Swensen, Hua Tan, Dave Torick, Carrie Vielle, and Xuechen Zhang were among the 36 WSU faculty members who were granted tenure this year across the WSU system, or received promotions, according to the Office of the Provost.
The current issue of Washington State Magazine has articles on former alums Charles Kahlsdorf, (’14 MS Eng. Tech. Mgmt.) who recently penned a children’s book about civil engineering, and his chosen profession, and Wayne Chang (’10 Civ. Eng.), who has a passion for international disaster relief and humanitarian work.
Assefaw Gebremedhin was awarded the 2021 George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics.
Amit Bandyopadhyay received this year’s Distinguished Faculty Award in recognition of his achievements in research, scholarship and teaching. Bandyopadhyay will deliver this year’s Distinguished Faculty Address on March 22.
Former postdoctoral fellow Erin Hanan along with Professors Jennifer Adam and Ming-Liang Liu have published a study that shows the effects of climate change and forest management on Western wildfire activity.
The Daily Evergreen highlighted the efforts of a WSU research team that includes Xiao Zhang to develop a sustainable formula that acts as a protective barrier from the cold, an innovation that could revolutionize less reliable farming techniques.
Xiao Zhang, Matt Whiting, Qin Zhang and Changki Mo are utilizing cellulose nanocrystals to protect grape, cherry and other flowering crop plants during frost events.
Omar Al-Hassawi received the American Institute of Architecture Students and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture New Faculty Teaching Award.
Bernard Van Wie, Vikram Yadama, Hongfei Lin, Anurag Srivastava, Mona Ghandi, and Feng Zhao received Commercialization Gap Fund awards from WSU’s Office of Research and Washington Research Foundation.
WSU’s Outdoor Research Facility, founded by Jacob Leachman, was featured in the Daily Evergreen.