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$1.5M NSF grant to spark interest in engineering

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 […]

NSF grant to support research of grid security

PULLMAN — A team of researchers from Washington State University’s College of Engineering and Architecture has been selected to play a major role in a National Science Foundation-sponsored research initiative intended to address the challenge of protecting the cybersecurity of the nation’s power grid. In an Aug. 15 announcement, WSU was named as one of […]

Feds aim to double science research budget

Photo: Grad student Carrie Gillaspie (l) and associate professor Sue Clark (r) research the role microorganisms play in rendering uranium solids less mobile, under a grant from NSF. (Photo by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services.) Congress might increase spending on the National Science Foundation (NSF) by 15 percent annually in 2003, 2004 and 2005, “The […]