Sue Clark Kerry Hipps Kenneth Nash Young Wang PULLMAN – Four WSU faculty members have been named 2010 Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). They are among 192 distinguished scientists who were named ACS Fellows in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments in chemistry and service to ACS, the world’s largest […]
PULLMAN – Yong Wang, Voiland Distinguished Professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, and associate director of the Institute for Interfacial Catalysis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Fellows are recognized for their exceptional accomplishments in chemical science […]
PULLMAN – The 2010 Abelson Lecture at WSU will be delivered by Tobin J. Marks, one of the world’s foremost authorities in the fields of organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, materials science, organic electronics, photovoltaics and nanotechnology. He is the Ipatieff Professor of Chemistry and professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University. Marks’ research has […]
PULLMAN – Chemist Nathalie Wall of Washington State University and a colleague at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been awarded more than $600,000 from the Department of Energy for a study of how a radioactive isotope moves in soil and water. Information from the study will help scientists understand and predict radioactive particle migration on […]
PULLMAN – WSU chemistry major Brian Shuhler received second-place honors and a $1,000 cash prize in a national research competition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in New Braunfels in December. Shuhler, a senior from Bellingham, originally competed against more than 70 undergraduates from 62 universities and colleges in 30 states in the […]
Howard Grimes, dean of the Graduate School, set a goal of a 5 percent increase in graduate enrollment for this semester and, if you look at the numbers he is most concerned about, WSU nearly doubled that goal. “I’m very happy with these numbers,” he said, showing a graph of new doctoral student enrollments that […]
When Jeanne McHale tells people what she does for work, they are sometimes surprised. Her warm, outgoing demeanor is not what they expect from a chemistry professor. They say, “You don’t look like a chemistry professor,” she said. Or they say something like, “I hated chemistry.” McHale is not quite sure what a chemistry professor […]