Dear WSU Community
As we move to advance the WSU Research enterprise, we look forward to your invaluable participation in one or more of the five Grand Challenges: improving the quality of life through smart systems; sustaining health; advancing opportunity and equity; sustainable resources for society (food, energy, and water); and fundamental research in support of national security.
As you consider ways to insert yourself in these efforts, we want to provide you with the faculty points of contacts for each Challenge’s leadership team:
Improving Quality of Life through Smart Systems
Dave Field, Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture dfield@wsu.edu
Sustaining Health
Paul Whitney, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Arts & Sciences paul.whitney@wsu.edu
Fundamental research in Support of National Security
Yogi Gupta, Director, Institute for Shock Physics; Regents Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy; Creighton Distinguished Professor, Institute for Shock Physics ymgupta@wsu.edu
Advancing Opportunity and Equity
Todd Butler, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English butlert@wsu.edu
Sustainable Resources for Society: Food, Energy, Water
Stephanie Hampton, Director Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO) and Professor, School of the Environment s.hampton@wsu.edu
We look forward to your involvement.
To access the most recent Town Hall Meeting (9/2/15) on the Grand Challenges, you may access here.
