The University received a $1.5 million Department of Defense grant to establish a new cybersecurity education and research program.

WSU researchers have used granules made from potato waste bacteria to strengthen soil, offering a new alternative to cement additives that are currently used to shore up soils for building and erosion control.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.3 million Maximizing Access to Research Careers grant to WSU to fund underrepresented student researchers pursuing a biomedical program.

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.

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.

WSU researchers have developed an innovative way to convert plastics to ingredients for jet fuel and other valuable products, making it easier and more cost effective to reuse plastics.

The Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture recognized outstanding students, faculty, and staff at its annual convocation ceremony on April 15.

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation has announced that WSU juniors India Dykes, Haley Morris, and Gunnar Sly have each received $7,500 awards for the coming year.

Doctoral student Garry Smith has recently won a graduate fellowship from the American Heart Association to continue his research on filament-like proteins in heart muscle cells that are critical to the heart’s function.

A team of engineering students has developed an idea for a small-scale gasification device that would allow Nigerians and people from other countries with a limited electric power grid to convert their trash to electricity.