August 20, 2020
The Office of Undergraduate Research will distribute nearly $50,000 in awards to support the mentored research, scholarship and creative activities of the fellowship recipients.
Achievements
October 9, 2020
WSU researchers working to enable digital repatriation of Native American cultural heritage materials received a $700,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
October 7, 2020
The two‑year program that helps students with intellectual or developmental disabilities have a fully integrated, on‑campus experience received the award from the U.S. Department of Education.
October 6, 2020
A WSU project to make novel building materials from construction waste is continuing to gain traction with a commercialization grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.
October 1, 2020
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks recognized WSU’s Drive‑In Wi‑Fi Hotspots Project team among 22 inaugural Digital Opportunity Equity Recognition Program awardees.
More Achievements
September 30, 2020
The WSU Alumni Association membership drive—known as 40 by ‘20—was launched in 2018 to expand the university’s base of support.
September 28, 2020
The $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture will expand the farmer suicide prevention work done by WSU Extension to 13 western states and four U.S. territories.
September 17, 2020
The grant will be used to identify interventions to address livestock diseases and develop research training and institutional development in Africa.
September 16, 2020
The state's top‑selling specialty plate generated more than $673,000 last year in support of students throughout the WSU system.
September 15, 2020
Education professors A.G. Rud and Sola Adesope won the award for their book “Contemporary Technologies in Education: Maximizing Student Engagement, Motivation and Learning.”
September 14, 2020
Julianna Brutman plans to use the funding from her NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to investigate new aspects of how the brain controls energy homeostasis.
September 11, 2020
Associate Professor Judy Morrison and Assistant Professor Jonah Firestone have been elected to serve as Association of Science Teacher Education board members.
September 9, 2020
The grants will support students from disadvantaged backgrounds. To qualify for the program, students must be a first‑generation college student, from an economically disadvantaged background or have a documented disability.
September 4, 2020
Supported by the professorship, Squires will serve as the Engineering Technology Management Program’s graduate studies committee chair, leading efforts to refresh its core competencies.
August 19, 2020
College of Nursing faculty Roschelle (Shelly) Fritz, Renee Hoeksel and Kawkab Shishani are among 230 people worldwide being inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Nursing this fall.
August 17, 2020
The society’s E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry is given each year for outstanding theoretical or experimental research in industrial chemistry or chemical engineering.
August 14, 2020
A new website celebrates 2020 recipients of WSU’s top honors, bestowed by the president, provost and selected faculty associations.
August 11, 2020
The funding will be used to provide intensive advising, peer mentoring, emergency aid and discipline-specific support to veterans, STEM students and future teachers.
August 11, 2020
The Arbor Day Foundation, the largest 501(c)3 nonprofit membership organization dedicated to planting trees, has named WSU a 2019 Tree Campus USA.
August 4, 2020
Keane, WSU’s vice president for research, began his term as chair of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Council on Research on July 1.
August 4, 2020
Arvin Sahaym is being recognized for his many research and teaching contributions in the fields of strategy, entrepreneurship, and innovation management.