Energy Conversion

Researchers determine key improvement for fuel cells

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have determined a key step in improving solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), a promising clean energy technology that has struggled to gain wide acceptance in the marketplace.

Study clears way for new approaches to plant disease

By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington State University biologist has found what he calls “very strong support” for an 86-year-old hypothesis about how nutrients move through plants. His two-decade analysis of the phenomenon has resulted in a suite of techniques that can ultimately be used to fight plant diseases and […]

Students compete in alternative energy challenge

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – More than 500 students from 40 schools in Washington and Idaho will compete at Washington State University Saturday for up to $100,000 in cash prizes in the Alaska Airlines’ Imagine Tomorrow competition.

NASA funds student’s study of fueling space exploration

By Michelle Fredrickson, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – When mechanical engineering student Carl Bunge was 3 years old, his brother and sister convinced him he was an alien born from an egg his parents found in a field.

Research improves conductive plastic for health, energy

By Will Ferguson, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Biological implants that communicate with the brain to control paralyzed limbs or provide vision to the blind are one step closer to reality thanks to research by Brian Collins, an assistant professor of physics at Washington State University.

April 19: Symposium addresses future hydrogen economy

PULLMAN, Wash. – Academic, industry and government researchers from around the West will gather at Washington State University on Tuesday, April 19, to glimpse a hydrogen-powered future.

May 1 deadline to judge Imagine Tomorrow competition

PULLMAN, Wash. – The 2016 Alaska Airlines’ Imagine Tomorrow alternative energy competition at Washington State University Pullman is seeking industry leaders, policy makers, faculty and others to serve as judges to evaluate the work of 9th- through 12th-graders. The deadline to register as a judge for the May 20-22 contest is May 1.