Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture

The casual meeting in September led to a $200,000 grant for two engineering faculty members studying clay surface properties.

Students from any major are invited to participate in the 24‑hour hackathon-type event, starting at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 1 in Carpenter Hall on the Pullman campus.

Seven undergraduates from WSU’s student chapter of Material Advantage will participate in competitions, presentations, and a poster session at the weeklong Materials Science and Technology (MS&T) conference in Portland, Oregon.

Postdoctoral researcher Travis Olds has discovered and named 18 new minerals, including ewingite, the most structurally complex mineral known on earth.

The first-of-its-kind development is expected to make it easier to find treatments for a disease that has destroyed millions of acres of orange, grapefruit and lemon groves around the world.

The team includes students from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, The Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture and the Carson College of Business.

Two WSU teams received nearly $20,000 for their research using virtual reality to address issues in computational computer science.

Tobias Jimenez’s Parcelas Verticales, or vertical plots, design proposed an answer to the affordable housing crisis in New York. 

Computer science professor Xuechen Zhang was named a Tier 2 Gold winner of the U.S. Department of Energy’s first Electricity Industry Technology and Practices Innovation Challenge.

The Fulbright program aims to increase mutual understanding among scholars across the globe and is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government.