Dean’s Letters

Noel Schulz has been appointed to the Bob Ferguson Endowed Professorship at Washington State University Tri-Cities.

I am writing to you on my first official day as the new interim dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, and I am honored to have the opportunity to work alongside such a talented and dedicated group of individuals.

The US Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management featured a story about a WSU student engineering team that recently partnered with engineers at the Hanford Site’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant for their senior projects.

A team led by Jinwen Zhang won a Phase I prize in the DOE Wind Turbine Materials Recycling competition for their project “Continuous Chemical Recycling at Ambient Pressure.”

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

Xianming Shi’s green concrete research was featured in The Seattle Times.

Co-led by Voiland College’s Jin Liu and Prashanta Dutta, as well as Anthony Nicola at the College of Veterinary Medicine, WSU researchers received a four-year $1.2 million grant funded by the National Institutes of Health to study virus-cell interactions at the moment a virus merges with a cell to initiate an infection – a process known as virus fusion.

Zhipeng Li has been recognized with the Milton Pikarsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of science and technology in transportation studies.

WSU Insider featured Jillian Cadwell’s work to support minoritized women in STEM through a co-mentoring network called WiSEN (Women in STEM Education Network).

I am pleased to announce that Jason Peschel has been appointed VCEA Associate Dean for Facilities Modernization.

In this role, Jason will lead and oversee efforts to continue to upgrade all VCEA Pullman facilities.