Achievements

WSU announces that applications and nominations for the Richard G. Law Excellence Award for Undergraduate Teaching will be accepted through Mon., March 30, and for the Smith Teaching and Learning Grant through Wed., April 1.

The Schwarzman scholarship, first presented to U.S. students in 2016, was created to prepare young leaders to respond to the geopolitical landscape of this century.

Recognition as Clinton Fellows came after Nam Nguyen and Aaron Ramadan submitted a lengthy business proposal outlining their plan for a handheld device that guides students through a session of meditation in response to mental health stresses.

A distinguished group of women have been honored with Women of Distinction and Woman of the Year awards. The awards are presented annually during National Women’s History month.

The Office of the Provost has announced names of faculty and staff members who will be honored for their scholarly achievements and professional acumen at the 2020 Celebration of Excellence Banquet.

Byron Marlowe will teach and conduct research at the IMC University of Applied Sciences beginning in March 2021. The four‑month experience will support Marlowe’s ongoing research project identifying best practices for winery tasting room experiences throughout the world.

Jordan Graham and Nam Nguyen were the only students from a Washington university to be among the federation’s 50 Most Promising Multicultural Students of 2020.

The Edward R. Murrow College of Communication will honor Janie McCauley and Mark Wright as the 2020 Hall of Achievement Award recipients at the Murrow Symposium on March 23 at Washington State University’s Pullman campus.

Forty‑seven WSU faculty members were granted tenure this year while dozens more across the system received promotions, according to the Office of the Provost.

A news report uses Chancellor Dave Cillay’s promotion to illustrate the growing importance universities are putting on online education.

As a member of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research’s Advisory Council for Advanced Animal Systems, André‑Denis Wright will help direct the organization’s efforts to to address today’s food and agricultural challenges.

More than 1,540 students from 53 universities and 21 states participated in the recent Associated Schools of Construction competition, the largest construction management competition in the U.S.

Seven WSU faculty members received Fulbright awards for 2019-2020, giving them the opportunity to teach and conduct research abroad as part of the cultural exchange initiative.

The WSU team used construction management skills and technical writing to develop a proposal for a real‑life construction project.

Venera Arnaoudova, Anamika Dubey, and Subhanshu Gupta, faculty members in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, each received the five-year awards which are about $500,000 each.

Ananth Kalyanaraman will discuss some of the key advances, challenges, and opportunities in computational life sciences as part of the annual Bose lecture, which recognizes the top faculty researcher in the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture.