competition

WSU students take innovation to business plan competition

Three undergraduate students from WSU are headed to Santa Barbara, Calif., March 3 and 4 as one of nine teams invited to participate as semifinalists in a national business plan competition.College of Business senior Nick Rapagnani and bioengineering seniors Ahmad Bayomy and Sepideh Zolfaghari will present to a panel of judges at the third annual […]

Chef puts on a show before competition

Jaime Herrera is inviting everyone at WSU to a free dinner show. And dinner is the show.Herrera, the manager/chef at the Northside Marketplace dining area, has been accepted to compete at a culinary competition in March. Until then, he needs an audience to practice in front of. He’ll “perform” by prepping and cooking dinner at […]

WSU students to show off solar home in national competition

After three years of hard work, students who designed a homemade solar home will watch it drive away.The home was disassembled last week and loaded onto flatbed trucks to travel to Washington D.C., where it will be one of 18 solar homes in the national Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition.On Friday, the container of […]

Interior Design student wins nat’l design competition

SPOKANE, Wash. — Nicole Kelln, who graduated this spring with a bachelor’s degree in interior design from Washington State University, took the 2005 grand prize in the National Sustainable Design Competition sponsored by the International Interior Design Association. The competition organizers said they had an “overwhelming” number of entries and that the grand prize selection […]

Students begin construction on solar home project

A group of Washington State University engineering and architecture students are beginning construction on a solar home that will become part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C., this October. A groundbreaking ceremony for the project will be held at noon on March 31 in the Thermal Fluids Laboratory on the […]

Teams converge for WSU Spokane MESA competition

Some 200 students in grades nine and 10 will participate this week in the annual Washington State University Spokane Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement Competition.The event is set to run from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. on March 22 and March 24 in the Phase I Classroom Building on the WSU Spokane campus, 668 N. Riverpoint […]

Undergraduate research to be showcased March 25

Fifty Washington State University undergraduate science majors will display posters explaining the results of their research at the second College of Sciences Undergraduate Research Poster Competition on March 25.The exhibit will take place in the Compton Union Building Ballroom. Student researchers will be available to explain their posters when the session opens to the public […]

Hirzel wins architecture award

“Like David and Goliath” is how Washington State University associate professor Paul Hirzel, from the School of Architecture and Construction Management, described the feeling of receiving one of three awards from the American Institute of Architects in Seattle.Hirzel, along with Greg Kessler, a professor in the School of Architecture and Construction Management, and former student […]

WSU business plan competition begins

The Washington State University College of Business and Economics and the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will sponsor the preliminary rounds of the second annual WSU Business Plan Competition Dec. 3.  The preliminary rounds of the two-phase competition will be from 1-5:30 p.m. in Todd Hall conference rooms 239, 339, 387 and 439. The competition will […]

WSU joins Pullman in recycling challenge

Washington State University and the city of Pullman are partnering to compete against 10 cities nationwide in an effort to win $10,000 through the collection of aluminum cans for recycling. The prize is being offered through the Cans for Cash City Recycling Challenge, a national recycling program being offered by the U.S. Conference of Mayors […]