News 2023

Jonathan Male appointed as new head of Office for National Laboratory Partnerships

Mar 8, 2023 | WSU Insider Washington State University’s Office of Research has appointed Jonathan Male as the assistant vice chancellor for research and director of the systemwide Office for National Laboratory Partnerships. He assumed the new role on Feb. 27. Male will develop and support systemwide programs in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy national […]

WSU and Heritage University scientists to share research at March 31 symposium

By Angela Sams, College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences Scientists at Washington State University’s Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (IAREC) will share their research alongside Heritage University undergraduate students during the Honoring Undergraduate and Graduate Scholars Symposium (HUGSS) this Friday, March 31. The event, set to take place on the Heritage University […]

Three Minute Thesis – Austin Gluth wins the Tri-Cities 3MT Competition (3/8/2023)

        On behalf of Dr. Garcia-Perez, we would like to congratulate Austin Gluth for winning the Tri-Cities 3MT Competition that took place yesterday! The competition had 7 participants and four of them were our BSE graduate students: – Austin Gluth (advisor Dr. Bin Yang) – Renan Stefanini Lopes (advisor: Dr. Birgitte Ahring) […]

Three Minute Thesis – Jake Schrader (PhD) and Kesevan Veloo (MS) win the BSE Competition

        On behalf of Dr. Manuel Garcia-Perez, we want to thank Kesevan, Jake, Austin, Samrat, Renan and Milton for participating in BSE’s 3MT Thesis Competition! Also, a big thanks to our faculty judges and the audience! Kesevan Veloo moves on to the CAHNRS competition in the MS category. The winners in the […]

Shulin Chen named National Academy of Inventors senior member

February, 2023 | WSU Insider Biological Systems Engineering professor Shulin Chen has been honored as a  senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. He will be inducted formally at the Academy’s annual meeting in June in Washington, D.C. Chen has produced biochemicals from organic waste using microbial “cell factories,” yeasts that synthesize target biochemicals using […]

AgAID Digital AgAthOn 2023 – Hackathon

February 2, 2023 | WSU Insider Almost 200 students from around the U.S. had the chance to work on two challenges for the agricultural industry as part of the NSF/USDA-NIFA-funded AgAID Institute’s Digital Agathon. The event was held on the Washington State University Pullman campus as well as in Corvallis, Oregon and Merced, California. A huge thanks […]