VANCOUVER – Washington State Lt. Gov. Brad Owen will visit WSU Vancouver at 1:30 p.m., Feb. 21 to highlight recent grants from the Washington Technology Center (WTC) to researchers at WSU Vancouver. “We are really seeing a trend toward this kind of engagement between the state, university research facilities and private industry,” said Hal Dengerink, […]
Photo: Grant Norton in his lab with student Aaron Wilkinson. (Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services). Grant Norton begins with the basics: “A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, so nanotechnology has evolved to describe the study and application of materials on that extremely small scale. “Materials at that size have unique […]
SPOKANE – Washington State University Research Foundation and Greater Spokane Incorporated will host an inaugural event to showcase emerging WSU technologies with commercialization and market potential. The event, targeted to the investment community and potential business partners, is scheduled for May 10, from 2-4 p.m. at the Academic Center Building, Room 20, on the Riverpoint […]
PULLMAN, Wash.—Schools across the United States are threatened by a different kind of “digital divide,” according to Dr. Eric Anctil of Washington State University. This digital divide isn’t between those who have access to technology and those who don’t. Rather, it is between students on one side and the faculty and administration on the other. […]
VANCOUVER- Washington State University Vancouver alumni Joe Fryer and Everett Ulbricht, owners of Whizzo Technologies, have pledged money for a scholarship for students in the WSU Vancouver Digital Technology and Culture program. Fryer graduated in 2003 from the DTC program. Ulbricht graduated with a degree in Public Affairs in 2002. The $1,000 Whizzo Technologies Scholarship […]
Vancouver– Thanks to a computer science class at Washington State University Vancouver, Internet users can now add custom mapping to the explosion of online user-generated content available. GeoMonkey is a Web2.0 startup company, enabling community-building around the creation and sharing of customized maps. “GeoMonkey allows users to geo-locate their own content, such as photos, videos, […]
Washington State University is committed to protecting confidential, nonpublic university information. But achieving that goal is an ongoing battle that requires the support and understanding of all employees. To help employee’s better fight identity theft at WSU, the university’s Data Taskforce and Information Technology Services provides the following answers to some of the most frequently […]
MOUNT VERNON – An opening celebration for Washington State University’s Agricultural Research and Technology Building will be Dec. 6. The new facility is the centerpiece in the $8 million revitalization of the WSU Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center. The invitation-only celebration will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the new facility on the […]
Spokane–Terri L. Butler, Ph.D., has joined WSU as technology commercialization manager in the Office of Intellectual Property Administration, a division of the university’s Office of Research. In this newly created position, Butler will focus her efforts on the commercialization of WSU developed technologies in Spokane, including licensing, linking Spokane-based commercial enterprises to WSU research programs, […]
Two media-related service units — Washington Higher Education Telecommunication System (WHETS), located in Murrow Hall, and Instructional Support Services (ISS), located in the Terrell/Holland Library — recently merged resources and staff to form Academic Media Services, which serve faculty, staff and students statewide.Both units are part of Educational Telecommunications and Technology (ETT), which also includes […]