Voiland College This Week

Apr. 20, 2021 Voiland College This Week

See all the outstanding award winners of the 2021 VCEA Convocation.

Birgitte Ahring was honored with the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Excellence Award.

Apr. 13, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Garry Smith won an American Heart Association Predoctoral Traineeship.

Jennifer Espin helped establish the Tri-Alpha Honor Society WSU Chapter, which held its first induction ceremony last week.

Apr. 6, 2021 Voiland College This Week

The School of Design and Construction and the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments are working together with Site Workshop, Gustafson Guthrie Nichol, and Berger Partnership to create an endowed scholarship in their respective landscape architecture programs to support students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC).

Sasha and Dustin McLarty, Natalia Drumm, and students Luis Pimentel and Lacy Lackey were featured in a WSU Insider story about the creative solutions some engineering courses took this semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic with funding support from the WSU Provost’s Office.

Mar. 30, 2021 Voiland College This Week

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.

Mar. 23, 2021 Voiland College This Week

Dan Dolan received the National Institute of Building Sciences Building Seismic Safety Council’s Excellence Award.

Susan Lewis received the WSU Crimson Spirit Award.

Mar. 9, 2021 Voiland College This Week

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.

Mar. 2, 2021 Voiland College This Week

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.