A team of mathematics and science educators at WSU Vancouver were recently honored by the National Science Foundation with a $1.9 million research grant.Tamara Holmlund Nelson, David Slavit and Anne Kennedy received the award from the highly-competitive Teacher Professional Continuum program at NSF, the goal of which is to research innovative and promising approaches to […]
The Grant Institute’s “Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop” will take place at the University of Washington from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 6-8 at the Husky Union Building room 106B.The workshop, open to development professionals, researchers, faculty and graduate students, is an intensive and detailed introduction to the process, structure and skill […]
Grant/award proposal and management training on the Gateway database will be available for faculty and staff employees regularly from the Office of Grant and Research Development beginning this month.Training topics will include searches, proposal reports, award reports, status lookups, acronym clarification, online reviewer options, electronic distribution and more.Location for the following sessions will be Neill […]
WSU researchers have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and to help understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers. These questions have become of increasing importance in the last few years as the number […]
Vancouver faculty and graduate students will hear strategies for winning grant proposals at a daylong seminar on Friday, March 31, in the Multimedia Classroom Building, WSU Vancouver. Topics will include: research and design of successful proposals; importance and roles of both program managers and reviewers; the writing process and a question-and-answer session. A panel of […]
WSU researcher Denny Davis and colleagues have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and better understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers.These questions have become of increasing importance in the last few years as […]
Increasing college tuition has proven to be a thorn in the sides of college students and parents nationwide. Now, more than ever, students are watching college costs, as well as the surge in competition for scholarships and grants. “This trend is continuing and, at best, will persist into the near future, if not long term,” […]
Washington State University researcher Diter von Wettstein has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to begin developing strains of wheat that will be safe for people with celiac disease to eat. Celiac disease can appear at any time in life, often triggered by surgery, viral infection or severe stress. Nearly 1 […]
Combating poverty is never easy, but the WSU Okanogan County Extension’s Horizons Program is making strides to facilitate systemic poverty reduction from the inside out. Funded by the Northwest Area Foundation, the pilot project offered an 18-month, $352,000 grant for leadership programs and activities to rural communities experiencing demographic changes, as well as income and […]
In a continued university effort to assess instruction in order to offer the best undergraduate education, WSU’s Intercollegiate College of Nursing (ICN) plans to research the effectiveness of its Native American Summer Nursing Institute. The institute, which has been in operation since 1995, is intended to recruit Native American students into college and nursing. “Early […]