A WSU-led team will use the Department of Energy grant for research into using ionic liquids, or liquid salts, to grab carbon dioxide out of the air and catalytic processes to convert it into valuable chemicals.

A WSU and University of Washington team has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant for work to recycle and create valuable products out of waste plastic.

WSU researchers have developed a way to assess soil health by measuring the electric current produced by its tiniest microbes.

Kostyukova, the Paul Hohenschuh Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering, is a leader in protein engineering research. She replaces outgoing director Jim Petersen.

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.