New research aims to create ‘Trojan virus’ that can destroy viruses after infection
WSU researcher Michael Phelps is working on a completely new way to fight viral infections thanks to a $600,000 National Institutes of Health grant.
Science & Technology
Architecture students compete in housing affordability hackathon
Nicole Liu, along with fellow architecture students Anissa Chak, Jhoana Avante, and Shanelle Brown, together formed a team focused on COVID‑19 and its impact on the affordable housing crisis.
Systems approach assesses public health impacts of changing climate, environmental policies
New WSU research offers an alternative way to understand and minimize health impacts from human-caused changes to the climate and environment.
Licensing deal aims to enable safer winter roads
The agreement involves WSU research demonstrating how grape extract and other agricultural waste can be used to produce anti‑icers.
WSU helping build community resilience to tsunamis, rising seas
The WSU/UW William D. Ruckleshaus Center will help coastal communities become resilient to tsunamis, rising sea levels, and other hazards as part of a National Science Foundation-funded project.
$3.6 million DOE grant to support direct air carbon capture research
A WSU-led team will use the Department of Energy grant for research into using ionic liquids, or liquid salts, to grab carbon dioxide out of the air and catalytic processes to convert it into valuable chemicals.
WSU receives $3 million for graduate research to improve Columbia River
The five‑year National Science Foundation grant will fund research training focused on the relationships among waterways and communities.
WSU part of $15 million project to build community resilience in West
The new National Science Foundation-funded effort will help Inland Mountain West communities face the challenges of extended droughts, frequent wildfires, and population growth.
NSF grant will support research to address waste plastics
A WSU and University of Washington team has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant for work to recycle and create valuable products out of waste plastic.
WSU engineer’s tiny robot earns world record
Weighing in at about three grains of rice and not much bigger than a real beetle, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia’s Robeetle will be included in the upcoming Guinness Book of World Records.
