Season’s Greetings! As our fall semester wraps up, I want to wish everyone ‘Happy Holidays,’ and hope each of you can experience all the comfort and joy our winter break provides.
And what a semester this fall has been. Since returning to campus, we all seem to have been running ‘Full Speed Ahead’ as if to make up for the lost time of 2020.
Di Wu is being recognized by two professional societies in different fields for his early career accomplishments.
Xianming Shi, Vahid Vahdat, Nestor Perez-Arancibia, and Ming Luo received Cougar Cage funding.
Karl Englund talked about the potential of wind turbine recycling with USATODAY.
Anamika Dubey and Assefaw Gebremedhin gave an interview to Northwest Public Broadcasting about their GAANN grant to train PhD students at the intersection of AI, data science, and energy applications.
KREM 2 reported on the student team that won NASA’s BIG Ideas Challenge.
Voiland College has launched a fundraising campaign to support the next generation of VCEA students with the construction of a new Student Success Building. Check out the Building Success Campaign web page for more information.
Ian Wells, Camden Butikofer, Nathaniel Swets, Lauren Reising, John Bussey, Stasia Kulsa and Gregory Wallace won the prestigious Artemis Award at NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge.
Last Monday, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which will allocate more than $1 trillion to repair and upgrade the nation’s infrastructure.
This is good news for our country and for our college. Included in the law is $550 billion of new federal investments in America’s infrastructure over five years, touching everything from airports, bridges, and roads to the nation’s broadband, water and energy systems, and the equitable and sustainable ways we can improve them.
CEE students Alyssa Bailey, Emma Hein, Geneva Schlepp, and Lijun Wright won the 2021 Pacific NW Air & Waste Management Association Environmental Challenge.
Several Voiland College student clubs are participating in the Coug Starter fundraising campaign now through Nov. 30.
Led by Assefaw Gebremedhin, a WSU research team has received a $1.2 million U.S. Department of Education grant to train graduate students at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and engineering to address challenges of the future electric power grid.
Researchers in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering helped develop a test that determines antibiotic resistance in less than 90 minutes.