Richland – EnergySolutions today announced the gifting of 10 scholarships to incoming freshmen at Washington State University Tri-Cities as part of the company’s commitment to education. Each scholarship will provide a student with $3,000 during the 2007-08 freshman year and another $3,000 in the senior year. “We are thrilled to have EnergySolutions involved through its scholarship […]
Washington State University executives recently submitted the 2007-09 biennial budget request to the state Office of Budget Management for review. Some of the major segments of the budget request package include: • Reshaping research university enrollment to fill the workforce demand. This item pairs a request for high-demand and general enrollment increases with a request […]
Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts doubled the amount of external funding they received last year compared to the year before, and indeed, compared to the three years before that. And they expect to do even better this year. In 2005-2006, CLA got more than $4 million in extramural funding. “Research funding is a […]
A four-part video workshop series designed to help research managers will begin on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in Neill 416. The first video, “Post-Award Issues for the Pre-Award and Departmental Administrator,” will be shown twice — 8 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. To register, go to http://www.ogrd.wsu.edu/workshops.asp. The 2006 series is from the National Council of University […]
WSU’s Northwest Public Radio is procuring items and services from businesses for its first-ever online auction, Feb. 3-12, to contribute to the operations of the university’s public radio service. Using the website to auction items of interest to the station’s audience was a logical extension to help with fund raising and to engage the audience, […]
The 2005 Legislature gave WSU funding to increase new graduate student enrollment. But the state and Graduate School intend to get a much greater bang for the buck.Rather than just the 60 new positions the state funded for 2006 and 2007, Dean Howard Grimes wants the money to work as a catalyst to generate even […]
The WSU Office of Research is providing research-related funding in response to the WSU Strategic Plan’s emphasis on enhancing university research. Three funding programs will allow researchers to branch out in their research ventures, including:*The WSU Technology Gap Fund Program focuses on furthering the development of WSU innovations with commercial potential, but may need additional […]
Quick, describe the difference between any two of the following: outreach, extension, engagement and extended university services. If you’re a bit fuzzy or utterly stumped, don’t feel alone. There certainly is some overlap between these programs and terms. But, one term you want to clearly understand — regardless of what department you are in — […]
Federal funding for WSU’s Student Support Services Program has been extended another five years, one year longer than the typical four-year extension. WSU’s grant proposal received an excellent evaluation, said Al Jamison, vice president for Educational Development. “This is wonderful news,” he said. WSU‘s program was established in 2001 to provide specialized assistance to first […]
WSU representatives were in Washington, D.C., Feb. 9 and 10 to present the university’s federal funding requests to the Washington state congressional delegation and ask for the delegation’s support. The top eight requests are: 1) A facility for the Agriculture Research Services scientist co-located in the bioscience buildings. The federal government previously appropriated funds for […]