The Washington Research Foundation donated $1.65 million to support graduate students finding solutions to problems such as tick-borne diseases, brain disorders, and demands for clean water.
As one of 18 winners, the Tri‑Cities campus received $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to implement its Empowering the Future Energy Workforce plan.
These latest awardees bring WSU’s total number of Goldwater recipients to 48 since the first in 1990. The scholarships are given to high‑achieving undergraduates pursuing science careers.
Undergraduates will use funding from the Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarships toward study abroad programs of their choice in Austria, Italy, Japan, Portugal, and Spain this summer and fall.
Naseeha Cardwell, a chemical engineering graduate student, was chosen from among 1,100 applicants for a Society of Women Engineers 2022 Intel Graduate Diversity Scholarship.
Bhat won the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Design Automation for his work improving wearable devices.