Voiland College This Week

Nov. 19, 2019 Voiland College This Week

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.

Nov. 12, 2019 Voiland College This Week

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.

Nov. 5, 2019 Voiland College This Week

The Center for Produce Safety prioritizes research programs that support the development of solutions for critical industry produce safety needs across the entire supply chain.

The SCGSR program supports supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory/facility in collaboration with a lab scientist for a period of 3 to 12 consecutive months—with the goal of preparing graduate students for scientific and technical careers.

Oct. 28, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Led by Yuehe Lin, researchers are using tiny tubes made from organic molecules called peptoids to deliver cancer-killing drugs in a targeted manner.

Annie Du led a group of researchers in creating a nanozyme consisting of single iron atoms embedded in nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes. Detailed in the journal Small, the team solved a problem with nanozymes – their inability to match the catalytic activity of natural enzymes.

Oct. 22, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Yu-Chung Chang placed first at the recent ASTM Symposium on Structural Integrity of Additive Manufactured Materials and Parts Student Competition.

Mike Hugh took first place in his division at the recent Seattle Robothon.

Oct. 15, 2019 Voiland College This Week

By employing machine learning and game theory, WSU researchers, including graduate student Abu Sayed Chowdhury and Professor Shira Broschat, were able to determine with 93 to 99 percent accuracy the presence of antibiotic-resistant genes in three different types of bacteria.

A team of scientists led by Norbert Kruse has found a way to tune a major industrial chemical process to create commercially important fuels, lubricants and detergents in a simple, one-step process.

Oct. 8, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Michael Wolcott discussed WSU’s aviation biofuels research with the Daily Evergreen.

A research team including Mohammadsoroush “Tommy” Tafazzoli has for the first time developed a way to measure the social sustainability of large apartment and housing complexes.

Oct. 1, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Xianming Shi’s research on greener replacements for concrete was highlighted by DW News.

Matthew Cohen has published new book, Proportional Systems in the History of Architecture: A Critical Reconsideration, which reconceives the idea of proportional systems, which are often numerical ratios or easily constructed geometrical shapes formed from the dimensions used to build a structure.