Plan to attend today’s research symposium on the second floor of the Smith CUE building, which kicks off at 9 a.m. in room 203 with a keynote address by Noel Schulz, engineering professor and WSU First Lady.
From 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the nearby Smith CUE Atrium, more than 70 students from colleges as near as the University of Idaho and Boise State to as far away as, for example, Brown, Columbia, New Mexico State, and Alabama universities, will feature their summer research with WSU faculty mentors at a poster session.
More than a dozen programs—led by professors in, for example, CEA, CVM, CAS, CAHNRS, and CP at Pullman, Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver—received applications from students across the nation in spring. Successful applicants (including some WSU students). They arrived on the campuses in early June to spend roughly 9-10 weeks contributing to defined, ongoing research projects funded by National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) projects, the USDA, and other sources. https://summerresearch.wsu.edu/research-opportunities/
The students’ projects cover a broad range of subjects, as evidenced by these abstract titles:
- “Regional equations for streams in forested watersheds in the Pacific Northwest”
- “The night-out task: everyday functioning assessment of older adults and younger adults”
- “The effect of starvation on bacterial survivability in sand and evolution of biofilms”
- “Finite difference time domain simulation of time-reversal division multiple access for wireless networks on chip”
- “A filter bank of high-Q bandpass filters to find Fourier series coefficients for TRDMA system”
Organizing the symposium is the WSU Office of Undergraduate Research, directed by Shelley Pressley.
The summer research website has more information. https://summerresearch.wsu.edu/
