A WSU chemical engineering student is one of eight students nationwide chosen to serve as a delegate for the American Chemical Society at a closely watched U.N. climate change meeting in Madrid, Spain.

A team of scientists led by a WSU researcher has found a way to tune a major industrial chemical process to create commercially important fuels, lubricants and detergents.

The research, which is being conducted at WSU Tri-Cities, has the potential of being used at contaminated sites around the world.

The first-of-its-kind development is expected to make it easier to find treatments for a disease that has destroyed millions of acres of orange, grapefruit and lemon groves around the world.

The competitive grant brings the total NIH investment into the program to more than $10.4 million since it began in 1989 as one of the first nine NIH training grant programs in biotechnology.

The 2019-2020 projects include a new course in which students will learn the chemical origins of color perception and create painting projects from pigments they have synthesized themselves in the laboratory.

This year’s national Goldwater pool included more than 1,200 students nominated by 443 academic institutions.

The prototypes will be implemented in classrooms in spring of 2020.

Yong Wang has been named a recipient of the 2019 Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division Practice Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

A team of Washington State and Tufts University researchers have uncovered fundamentals in how mirror-image molecules interact, a discovery that could have implications in biochemistry, medicine, and industry.