Research

23 Jan Exhibition to showcase professional art from WSU faculty across the state

Posted at 09:03h in Academic Affairs, Art, College of Arts and Sciences, Digital Technology and Culture, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – An exhibition at Washington State University Tri-Cities will showcase art professionally created by WSU faculty and staff from across the state now through Feb. 28 at the WSU Tri-Cities Art Center. “A Pink Scaffold in the Great Rann (Kutch,...

08 Jan Wine business book by WSU Tri-Cities professor earns “Best Book for Professionals”

Posted at 18:21h in Academic Affairs, Business, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Uncategorized, Wine, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A wine business book authored by a Washington State University Tri-Cities business professor and colleagues from other parts of the country earned the award for “Best Book for Professionals” by the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards, which honors books...

05 Dec Dec. 9, 11-13: Students to present research, course projects as part of symposium and art exhibition

Posted at 13:28h in Academic Affairs, Art, Biological Sciences – General Studies, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences, Digital Technology and Culture, Faculty, Psychology, Research, Science, Student, WSUTC News

RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University Tri-Cities students will present semester and course research and art projects as part of the Undergraduate Research Symposium and Art Exhibition Dec. 9 and Dec. 11-13. Students present during the WSU Tri-Cities Undergraduate Research Symposium and Art Exhibition. Sessions will take...

30 Oct First-gen college student Noel Perez named Wine Spectator Student of the Year

Posted at 18:15h in frontpage, profile, Research, Student, Viticulture / Enology / Wine, Wine, WSUTC News

Gratitude and humility: Those traits don’t often define a 4.0 GPA student who has created his own blockbuster wine, and who holds the honorific of Wine Spectator Student of the Year. But those are precisely the traits that describe Noel Perez (’20). A first-generation college student...

22 Oct PNNL scientist to discuss work at plutonium production site in Russia as part of WSU Tri-Cities lecture

Posted at 06:00h in Research, Science, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Bruce Napier, a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will discuss his work regarding the Mayak plutonium production site in Russia, which has many similarities to the Hanford Site in Richland, as part of a lecture...

07 Oct WSU professor develops cleanup strategies for NASA rocket test site

Posted at 13:13h in BSEL, Earth & Environmental Science, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Science, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities Birgitte Ahring, professor in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at WSU’s Bioproducts, Sciences and Engineering Laboratory (BSEL) in Tri‑Cities, Washington RICHLAND, Wash. – A Washington State University Tri-Cities professor is developing a bioremediation method in...

Arturo Gutierrez Larios engineering student and Mohamed Osman

16 Sep Students experience real-world impacts of research through summer scholars program

Posted at 16:44h in Academic Affairs, admissions, Art, Biological Sciences – General Studies, Biology, BSEL, College of Arts and Sciences, Computer science, Digital Technology and Culture, Earth & Environmental Science, Faculty, frontpage, Research, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Science, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Several Washington State University Tri-Cities students got to see first-hand how top-tier university research can impact their local community through the WSU Tri-Cities Chancellor’s Summer Scholar Program supported by Washington River Protection Solutions. Throughout the summer, selected students worked...

08 Aug Students design prototype for WRPS to determine exact layout of solid waste in Hanford tanks

Posted at 13:06h in Academic Affairs, admissions, frontpage, profile, Research, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Student, WSUTC News

Interested in a career in engineering? Check out the ABET-accredited and nationally recognized WSU Tri-Cities engineering programs at tricities.wsu.edu/engineering. By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A team of Washington State University Tri-Cities student mechanical engineers partnered with Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS) to design a prototype...

16 Jul Speeding up science on near-Earth asteroids

Posted at 08:57h in Academic Affairs, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Student, WSUTC News

By Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture RICHLAND, Wash. – Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used to track thousands of near-Earth asteroids...

04 Jun Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-country

Posted at 06:00h in Academic Affairs, admissions, BSEL, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, WSUTC News

By Scott Weybright, WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences RICHLAND, Wash. – A research group led by Washington State University Tri-Cities scientists has found a way to turn daily plastic waste products into jet fuel. In a new paper published in the journal Applied...