Awards & Achievements

Curry, who will also deliver the Murrow Symposium keynote address, has worked as a journalist and photojournalist for more than 30 years with a focus on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters.

Professors Santanu Bose, Tom Kawula, Bernd Markus Lange, Jill McCluskey, and Katrina Mealey have all been elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The National Institutes of Health grant will fund a train-the-trainer program that is recruiting scientists and educators to help shape the next generation of environmental health nurse scientists.

Four additional online programs also made the annual rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

A research team has received an MJ Murdock Charitable Trust grant to develop a market-ready wireless receiver for data communications systems.

The new director of the Center for Cannabis Policy, Research, and Outreach, David Gang, and the new assistant director, Tracy Klein, have complementary expertise in plant biochemistry and human health.

Zenna Glaser and Claudia B. Jacobo have been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which is designed to help American students gain proficiency in diverse languages.

Soil sciences graduate student Molly McIlquham took first place in the graduate student category of The Science Coalition’s third‑annual Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge.

Longtime ski patroller and soon-to-be Coug nurse Daniel Voltz will leave for China on Jan. 20 to be part of the Mountain Rescue Service for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.

Civil and environmental engineering students recently took the top prize in the 2021 Pacific Northwest Air & Wastewater Management Association Environmental Challenge for their creative solutions to climate change.