Medical student overcomes fear of needles to become doctor
A medical profession was not always part of Lars Neuenschwander’s plans. In fact, the WSU medical student had to overcome a piercing phobia of needles to pursue medicine.
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Researchers develop cell-growing technology to help cancer treatments
Graduate students Kitana Kaiphanliam and Brenden Fraser-Hevlin are working to commercialize a bioreactor that is able to grow 25 times more cancer-killing T cells than current technology in half the time.
Researchers study surfaces to improve critical catalysts
PULLMAN, Wash. – A WSU research team has developed a way to identify important chemical changes that occur during complex reactions on the surfaces of catalysts.
Doctoral student wins Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellowship
PULLMAN, Wash. – Gregory Collinge, a Washington State University chemical engineering Ph.D candidate, has received a highly selective Belgian American Educational Foundation fellowship.
Researchers use single-atom catalyst, convert CO to CO2
By Siddharth Vodnala, intern, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers from Washington State University and Tufts University have demonstrated for the first time that a single metal atom can act as a catalyst in converting carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, a chemical reaction that is commonly used in catalytic converters to […]
New catalyst meets challenge of cleaning exhaust from modern engines
By Eric Sorensen, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – As cars become more fuel efficient, less heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it harder to clean up the pollutants being emitted.
Office of Research announces 2018 Commercialization Gap Fund awards
PULLMAN, Wash. – Seven research projects with high commercialization potential have been chosen to receive awards of up to $50,000 through the Commercialization Gap Fund for 2018. The funding was awarded to faculty from diverse fields including clean technology, human health, agriculture and engineering.
WSU joins National Nuclear Security Administration Center of Excellence
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University is part of a new $12.5 million National Nuclear Security Administration Actinide Center of Excellence devoted to research in actinide and nuclear chemistry.
NSF program developing innovation, WSU entrepreneurs
By Mary Catherine Frantz, intern, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – Kevin Gray, a chemical engineering instructor at Washington State University, had a revolutionary idea.
WSU e-bandage combats drug-resistant bacteria, wins defense innovation award
By Erik Gomez, intern, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture PULLMAN, Wash. – A WSU research team was awarded the TechConnect Defense Innovation Award at this year’s Defense Innovation Technology Acceleration Challenges summit for their invention of an electrochemical scaffold to combat drug-resistant bacterial wound infections