Voiland College This Week

Sept. 28, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Anti-icing technology developed at Washington State University is being licensed by Fusione Corp., a Massachusetts-based snow and ice operations company, with the goal of creating environmentally responsible and sustainable snow and ice road treatments.

Julia Day and her building research are featured this week by the WSU Foundation.

Sept. 21, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Yuehe Lin and Shichao Ding helped develop a low-cost sensor that can detect and accurately measure the amount of the widely used and controversial herbicide, glyphosate, in droplets of liquid in a laboratory test.

Graduate student Nas Cardwell received second place on presenting “Capturing the Coverage Dependence of Aromatics via Mean-Field Models” at the PNWAVS 2021 meeting.

Sept. 14, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Led by Hongfei Lin, a team of researchers has received a $3.6 million Department of Energy grant to tackle what can arguably called one of humanity’s biggest challenges: how to capture carbon dioxide out of the air to mitigate climate change.

The National Science Foundation reported on the work of Haluk Beyenal, postdoctoral research fellow Abdelrhman Mohamed, and graduate students Eduardo Sanchez and Natalie Sanchez who have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes.

Sept. 2, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Mona Ghandi won a World Architecture Award for her project “ Wisteria: Incarnation of Human Emotion and Cognition In Space Using Artificial Intelligence.”

Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda is a recipient of a Waheed Uddin Diversity Graduate Research Fellowship recipients have been selected for 2021-22.

Aug. 31, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Ayad Rahmani has been named a member of the board of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

A Washington State University and University of Washington team led by Hongfei Lin received a $2 million grant from National Science Foundation Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program for research to recycle and create valuable products out of municipal waste plastics. Geekwire reported on this story.

Aug. 24, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Noel Schulz has been appointed co-director of the Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Advanced Grid Institute.

Washington State University and Palouse Habitat for Humanity announced a long-term partnership to study practical ways to create affordable, energy efficient housing.

Aug. 17, 2021 Voiland College This Week

We’re looking for volunteers to help with our two annual events – August 19 WoW Academic Kick-Off & August 26 VCEA Ice Cream Social. Both of these events will be held out in Thompson Flats and we have PLENTY of opportunities for you to welcome our new & returning students to campus.

Aug. 10, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Assefaw Gebremedhin will moderate a panel discussion titled “Artificial Intelligence – Jobs of the Future” at the NCESD and NCW Tech Alliance AI Expo at 10 AM Thursday, August 12. The AI Expo is open to the business community and general public to attend, virtually, free-of-charge.

Xianming Shi has been named as interim chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Shi also received a Chloride Reduction Leadership Award at the 2021 Salt Symposium.