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Awards & Achievements

Ji Yun Lee receives NSF CAREER award for community resilience research

The assistant professor in WSU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career award for her work helping communities better prepare for wildfires.

WSU Vice President Chaudhry honored by university in Romania

Asif J. Chaudhry, vice president of WSU’s Office of International Programs and WSU Pullman vice chancellor, was recently awarded the title Doctor Honoris Causa of Ovidius University in Constanta, Romania.

WSU graduate student Megan McLean earns educator grant

The mathematics and science education Ph.D. student will receive the Ferrucci Distinguished Educator Award, which will help her improve programming for students at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane.

Karina Gallardo, Colette Casavant honored with 2023 DEI awards

Karina Gallardo and Colette Casavant are the 2023 recipients of the inaugural Faculty and Staff Diversity, Equity, and Inclusive Excellence Awards from WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences.

Gilman scholarship students heading abroad

Four WSU undergraduates recently received the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship toward study abroad programs of their choice. Cougs will use the funding to study in Taiwan, Italy, Kenya, and Japan.

WSU undergraduates receive Udall scholarships

Katy Ayers and Jessalyn Swanson are the latest recipients of prestigious, nationally competitive Udall Undergraduate Scholarship awards.

A.G. Rud to head Philosophy of Education Society

Rud, a faculty member in the College of Education’s Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education program, has long been recognized as a thought leader in the history and philosophy of education.