Dean’s Letters

June 25, 2019 Voiland College This Week

WSU researchers, including Susmita Bose and graduate student Naboneeta Sarkar, have developed a drug delivery system using curcumin that successfully inhibits bone cancer cells while promoting growth of healthy bone cells.

June 18, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Susmita Bose has been named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Yong Wang has been named a recipient of the 2019 Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Practice Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

June 11, 2019 Voiland College This Week

A new University Transportation Center led by Xianming Shi received a $7.5M USDOT grant to address critical transportation challenges facing the nation.

The Scientist wrote a story about graduate student Abdelrhman Mohamed and Haluk Beyenal’s hunt for electrically-active bacteria in Yellowstone Park.

May 28, 2019 Voiland College This Week

NSF Science 360 featured Lei Li and graduate student Mojtaba Falahati’s research that developed a low-cost, easy way to make custom lenses.

Graduate students Mohammadreza Hatami and Kasra Koorehdavoudi won the Best Student Poster Award at last week’s PSERC Industry Advisory Board meeting in Madison, WI.

May 21, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Led by Lei Li and graduate student Mojtaba Falahati, researchers have developed a low-cost, easy way to make custom lenses that could help manufacturers avoid the expensive molds required for optical manufacturing.

ME grad Austin Corbin received a Society of American Military Engineers Award of Merit.

May 14, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Jena Jauchius’ design-build class project to build an outdoor learning lab for Jefferson Elementary was featured in the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

Andy Shu and Mona Ghandi were among 10 faculty to receive WSU 2019 New Faculty Seed grants.

May 7, 2019 Voiland College This Week

Ryan Smith was named by Modular Home Builder as one of its Five Heroes of Modular Housing.

WSU researchers, including Svetlana Lockwood and Shira Broschat, found a troubling number of errors in publicly available genomic data as they conducted a large-scale analysis of protein sequences. The announcement was highlighted by Science 360 News.