grants

Faculty receive grants from Washington Technology Center

The Washington Technology Center recently awarded grants to eight Washington research groups teamed with local companies to commercialize new technologies. Four of these grants went to Washington State University faculty. The 2006 RTD awards winners from WSU are: Diter von Wettstein, Crop & Soil Sciences; Jinwen Zhang, Wood Materials & Engineering; Carter Clary, Biological Systems Engineering; Vikram Yadama, […]

Nine groups earn teaching, learning grants

Nine grants recently were awarded to faculty for projects to improve teaching and learning assessment at Washington State University. This is the third year the grants have funded undergraduate teaching and learning projects; however, the content of this year’s projects and the collaborators involved highlight a sharper focus on assessment and on improvements at the […]

Industry collaboration helps researcher target needs

WSU research and industry collaborate through projects funded twice a year by grants from the Washington Technology Center’s Research and Technology Development program. WSU’s Karl Englund has participated in three RTD-funded projects with three different companies. A research associate in WSU’s Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory, Englund works with wood-plastic composites used to produce building […]

Foundation celebrates 25 years-and $44.7M

Twenty-five years ago, the Washington State University Foundation ended its inaugural year with just over $4.3 million in gifts and grants. Today, the WSU Foundation kicks off its 25th anniversary year by announcing that gifts and private grants for 2003-04 totaled $44,780,138, the fourth largest year in foundation history. Donors made future pledges of an […]

Teaching and learning grants deadline Nov. 15

For the third year, WSU will award grants for faculty/staff projects that assess undergraduate learning outcomes and use the results to improve teaching and curriculum. This year, however, applicants are asked to focus their projects specifically at the program and department levels. Also new: The contact person and “answer man” for those with questions about […]

Internship will build expertise for rural nurses

Several grants totaling more than $1.57 million were awarded recently to faculty and administrators at the Washington State University Intercollegiate College of Nursing in Spokane. One of the grants will establish a rural nurse internship program, the first of its kind in the U.S. It will complement formal nursing education programs through continuing education, helping […]

Competitive grants up 21%

WSU received $184.2 million in new grant awards in the 2003-2004 fiscal year, breaking the record set the previous year by nearly 16 percent.< “This is a great tribute to the outstanding faculty members here at Washington State University. As a public research institution, we have an important responsibility to perform the research, public service […]

WSU junior faculty awarded seed grants for research

The Washington State University Foundation has awarded 10 research grants totaling $100,000 through the 2004 WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant competition. The WSU Office of Research provided an additional $50,000 to these projects.The WSU Foundation New Faculty Seed Grant Program was developed to encourage junior-level faculty to develop research, creative or scholarly programs that […]

Grant increases nationwide outpaced by tuition

More college students nationwide received more grant aid in 2000 than they did in 1990. That’s good news for both parents and college students trying to make ends meet. However, the rate of tuition increases has steadily outpaced those increases in financial aid. The U.S. Department of Education has released a new report, “Paying for […]