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3 weeks ago | 
news.wsu.edu | Karen Hunt |Devin Rokyta |C. Brandon Chapman |Lauren Lesmeister
April 1, 2025 By Karen Hunt, Office of Research The Office of Commercialization has awarded six WSU researchers with the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF). The CGF supports research projects with high market potential and provides researchers up to $50,000 to demonstrate that their innovations(s) have the ability to make an economic impact in society. The CGF is intended to be the final funding step for near-market technologies.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Karen Hunt |Levi McGarry
As a hurricane barrels up the East Coast, people wonder how they’re going to build or retrofit houses, apartments, and communities to keep up with the more intense rainstorms, flooding, and higher winds brought about by climate change. As extreme heat comes to the Pacific Northwest, a community struggles with opening cooling shelters amid wildfires and a viral pandemic. How will they circulate air so people don’t get sick there?
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Scott Weybright |Tina Hilding |Voiland College |Karen Hunt
Incarcerated individuals have few personal rights, but one they do retain is the ability to create advance directive plans for their health care. Unfortunately, few know that this is the case. A new project led by a Washington State University graduate student will educate more incarcerated people about their options as they approach the end of their lives.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Karen Hunt |Levi McGarry |Sara Zaske |RJ Wolcott
December 6, 2024 By Karen Hunt, Office of Research Faculty and staff were recognized during the annual Research Excellence Awards. Each year, the awards are given to faculty and staff who exemplify the very best of research and creative practice at WSU.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Seth Truscott |Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock |Christina Mancebo
RICHLAND, Wash. —Washington State University scientists successfully tested a new way to produce sustainable jet fuel from lignin-based agricultural waste. Published in the journal Fuel Processing Technology, the team’s research demonstrated a continuous process that directly converts lignin polymers, one of the chief components of plant cells, into a form of jet fuel that could help improve performance of sustainably produced aviation fuels.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Joe Roberts |Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock |Christina Mancebo
Washington State University Professor Brian Brandt returned to the country of Georgia over the summer to support the expansion of WSU 4-H’s Know Your Government (KYG) curriculum into three new cities. 4-H KYG is an experiential learning curriculum designed to educate youth on democratic governance and separation of powers, important in the current context of Georgia, which is experiencing ongoing democratic development.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock |Christina Mancebo
The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) recently awarded three Washington State University researchers with grant funding to develop detailed plans for projects and programs that could significantly advance the state’s life-science ecosystem and improve lives. The funding will establish two new centers and facilitate collaboration at WSU and between industry.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock
August 20, 2024 College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean Wendy Powers, whose leadership since 2022 has continued to propel the national profile of the college, will resign from Washington State University at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock |Tina Hilding
Washington State University has received a five-year, $2.74 million T32 training grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue and expand its prestigious NIH Protein Biotechnology Training Program for doctoral students in science and engineering.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
news.wsu.edu | Devin Rokyta |Karen Hunt |Josh Babcock |Tina Hilding
August 19, 2024 Students are returning en masse to Washington State University campuses statewide for the first day of classes. Pullman kicked off festivities early, as usual, with its pre-semester Week of Welcome, culminating with Friday’s convocation and a campus-wide picnic presented by BECU and resource fair. Spokane and Global campuses also hosted pre-semester welcoming events, with Vancouver, Tri-Cities, and Everett campuses welcoming students back Aug.
