A newly awarded grant from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) aims to expand the use of oilseeds and other vegetable oil crops in renewable jet fuel manufacturing. The grant supports collaborative research by Washington State University chemical engineer Hongfei Lin and University of Nebraska–Lincoln plant scientist Ed Cahoon.
Research led by Yuehe Lin that used tiny tubes made from peptoids to deliver cancer-killing drugs in a targeted manner was one of the Dept. of Energy’s Office of Science’s Top Posts of 2019.
Diane Cook and Larry Holder received a $1 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a framework to test the “intelligence” of AI systems.
VCEA communications intern Lillie Williams took first place in The Science Coalition’s Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge for her video on the WSU HYPER Lab’s cryogenics research.
Yuehe Lin has been named a Highly Cited Researcher for 2019 by Web of Science Group.
A team of researchers, including Mehdi Honarvar Nazari and Xianming Shi, is developing a more sustainable solution using grape skins and other agricultural waste.
Jake Leachman’s Hyper Lab is a finalist in The Science Coalition’s Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge Public Choice Award. Cast your vote to help them win!
Julia Day and researchers in WSU’s Integrated Design and Construction Laboratory are studying how people will experience and interact with the new Catalyst building in Spokane.
The latest edition of Washington State Magazine features several stories on Voiland College faculty and alumni, including Pizhong Qiao’s research on bridge health, Von Walden’s personal connection to the McNair Scholarship, and atmospheric research in the Arctic, and alum Paul Enquist’s victory in the Summer Olympic Games.
Herman and Brita Lindholm Endowed Chair professors Amit Bandyopadhyay and Susmita Bose recently published the second edition of their book, Additive Manufacturing.