A former assistant director of the National Science Foundation and former president of the National Academy of Engineering will present a free public lecture, “Responsible Citizenship in a Technological Democracy,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Smith CUE 203. A reception will follow in the Smith CUE atrium. William A. Wulf will propose that citizens […]
Loverine Taylor, an associate professor of the School of Molecular Biosciences, was honored with a Special Services Award from the National Science Foundation. For the past two years, Taylor has served as a Program Director in the Molecular and Cellular Biosciences directorate at NSF and she was commended for her contributions “which provide exceptional value […]
VANCOUVER – The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $382,109 to WSU Vancouver and Scott Wallace, assistant professor of computer science, in support of the Northwest Distributed Computer Science Department. The project seeks to develop a unique educational community within the Pacific Northwest by uniting educations who are devoted to sharing knowledge, […]
PULLMAN – WSU Regents Professor of Archeology Timothy Kohler will receive a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Forest Service to better understand the interactions between humans and their environment by studying coupled natural and human systems. Kohler and his colleagues will receive a $1,499,172 grant to study the dynamic interaction […]
PULLMAN — WSU is hosting five National Science Foundation sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates Site programs in the summer of 2008. The final poster session where the summer researchers present their work will be in the CUE Atrium on Tuesday, August 5 from 2 – 4 pm and on Wednesday, August 6 from 9 – […]
Faculty, specifically those with an environmental research interest, can attend two workshops that will explore major interdisciplinary research and graduate education proposal opportunities. The workshops are hosted by the Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO). “I’m very excited that we can have presentations from two National Science Foundation program directors,’’ says George Mount, CEREO […]
Researchers in the College of Engineering and Architecture received a National Science Foundation grant that will they hope will allow more undergraduates than ever to gain research experience at Washington State University – especially freshmen and sophomores. The two-year grant provides for the development and implementation of an intensive short course, seminar and mentoring to […]
A team of mathematics and science educators at WSU Vancouver were recently honored by the National Science Foundation with a $1.9 million research grant.Tamara Holmlund Nelson, David Slavit and Anne Kennedy received the award from the highly-competitive Teacher Professional Continuum program at NSF, the goal of which is to research innovative and promising approaches to […]
WSU researcher Denny Davis and colleagues have been awarded a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation that seeks to improve student interest in math in secondary grades and better understand the factors affecting student interest in engineering and science careers.These questions have become of increasing importance in the last few years as […]
Four directors from the National Science Foundation will be in Pullman April 19 and 20 to make presentations about their specific fields in science.The presentations will take place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. on April 19, and from 9 to 10 a.m. on April 20 in the CUB Cascade Room 125-127. The April 19 presentation […]