PULLMAN, Wash. – Twenty-five students from a record pool of applicants for Washington State University awards in undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activities will each receive $1,000 to support their work.
Joey Taylor works on his summer undergraduate research project at WSU. PULLMAN, Wash. – When Joey Taylor signed up to continue his research on smart plugs this summer, the plan was to spend most of his time programming and testing the device’s ability to transfer data over power lines. As it often goes in […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – While some college students spend their summers tracking down the perfect vacation spot, Alex Lambdin spends his tracking down methane emissions leaking from natural gas pipelines. Lambdin, a senior in civil engineering, is one of more than 60 students from around the country and Washington State University participating in a research […]
Kindle, left, attaches sensor to study participant’s arm. PULLMAN, Wash. – Brooks Kindle sits at his desk to demonstrate the simple stretch he has used all summer to collect data. He has divided the stretch into four parts: lowering his forearm to the desk, raising it back into the air, lowering it again and finally […]
PULLMAN — The second annual WSU Undergraduate Research Symposium is set for Oct. 17 in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education on campus. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Oct. 10. Instructions, a template, and examples are available on the Web site at undergraduateresearch.wsu.edu, said Dave Bahr, director of WSU’s Office of Undergraduate […]
PULLMAN – Freshmen through seniors from throughout WSU will participate in the first Undergraduate Research Symposium Nov. 9 and 10 on the Pullman campus. Monetary awards totaling $2,000 will be awarded for the best presentations and posters. “There are numerous examples of undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activities taking place at our university, and the […]
PULLMAN – A set of 12 professors from seven Washington State University colleges have formed the school’s first Undergraduate Research Faculty Council. “We are counting on the members to help us define ‘what is research?’ in terms of the undergraduate experience at WSU,” says David Bahr, director of Undergraduate Research, a core unit in the Office […]
Goal 1: Offer the best undergraduate experience in a research university Tom Westphal, 19, is not a typical WSU student, but in some ways he is a model student — a model of student engagement. He arrived at WSU in 2005 as a Regents Scholar and already had 20 units of college credit. He spent […]