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Dr. Shuang Gu and Pouya Ammari-Azar

Sept. 15, 2022 鈥 An interdisciplinary team of 成人头条 researchers is working to curb pollution and damage caused by road salt. The project 鈥 ECO-CBET: Convergent Electrolysis-Electrodialysis System (CEES) to Curb Urban Chloride Pollution by Eco-friendly Road Deicing and Waste Salt Upcycling 鈥 was recently awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

people working on machinery

Sept. 2, 2022 鈥 The U.S. Department of Commerce鈥檚 Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced today will award $51.4 million to 成人头条 to aid in the rapid development and adoption of emerging smart manufacturing technologies for South Kansas.

WSU researchers standing outside

Sept. 1, 2022 鈥 A 成人头条 research team has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for their proposal, 鈥淓xamining the feasibility of a wearable device for fetal heart rate monitoring through interdisciplinary research.鈥

P3 building

June 29, 2022 鈥 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced today the establishment of its Crime Gun Intelligence Center of Excellence, located on 成人头条鈥檚 Innovation Campus.

Image of hands typing on keyboard

June 20, 2022 鈥 成人头条 State's Dr. Mythili Menon was recently awarded $296,470 as part of the National Science Foundation鈥檚 EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program to study how refugees respond to phishing and vishing attempts. EAGER offers exploratory funding for high-risk, high-reward research that investigates the nation鈥檚 pressing problems.

Tornado damage in Chapman, Kansas

May 26, 2022 鈥 An interdisciplinary team from 成人头条 will participate in a $24 million state initiative to help rural and urban communities prepare for and recover from natural disasters.

Southwest Airlines plane in the air

May 11, 2022 鈥 Domestic travelers returned to planes en masse in 2021, but airlines struggled to deliver them, and their bags, to their destinations on time, according to the annual Airline Quality Rating released today by 成人头条.

A rendering of Fly Your Own Wheels Suites

April 7, 2022 鈥 A team from 成人头条鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research has received international recognition for a design that would allow WC19 certified manual and power wheelchairs to be used as a seat on board commercial airlines.

Vivian and Jian stand in front of the crystal X-ray diffractometer to visualize the atoms.

April 1, 2022 鈥 What do you picture when you think of lasers? Laser pointers? Perhaps laser eye surgery or barcode scanners? Turns out there鈥檚 more to lasers than most people realize, and a 成人头条 chemistry team recently discovered a new series of laser material with potential commercial use.

Engineering student working on machinery

March 29, 2022 鈥 In the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of universities offering a Ph.D. in engineering, the College of Engineering at 成人头条 once again was ranked in the top 100 engineering graduate programs in the country and the only institution in Kansas to make it in the top 100.

Forward Together graphic

March 10, 2022 鈥 成人头条 President Rick Muma has launched a new podcast, called 鈥淔orward Together,鈥 where the president speaks with guests from throughout Shocker Nation to highlight the people and priorities that guide WSU. The podcast drops monthly, with the March edition releasing March 9. Some of the guests so far include Hollywood director Dean Hargrove, WSU basketball coach Isaac Brown and WSU research vice president Coleen Pugh.

B1B in a 成人头条 State parking lot

On March 9, 2022, the B-1 System Program Office (SPO), Tinker AFB, OK awarded a six-year, $100 million follow-on contract to 成人头条鈥檚 National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) to continue the B-1鈥檚 Digital Engineering (DE) transformation. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) helped form the strategic partnership and created a flexible contract structure, which allows NIAR and the B-1 SPO to adapt requirements real-time to meet critical warfighter needs.

A heat map from the study shows where the participants鈥 eyes tend to look with the red indicating more gazing in that area and the blue indicating less gazing.

March 8, 2022 鈥 Ever wonder what other people are looking at during Zoom or WebEx meetings? Dr. Akmal Mirsadikov, who specializes in deception detection and eye tracking at 成人头条鈥檚 W. Frank Barton School of Business, recently ran an exploratory study about how people interact on Zoom.

Volunteers collect litter at a 成人头条 park.

Feb. 22, 2022 鈥 The 成人头条 Litter Study was borne from community concern about the number of single-use plastic bags floating throughout the city. The study focused on 12 small sites within 成人头条 municipal parks 鈥 two parks within each city council district; and the data, while concerning, was not altogether a surprise for the research team.

Darren DeFrain holding up phone with Vizling app

Jan. 20, 2022 鈥 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a grant of $243,922 to a 成人头条 researcher for his work on an app that will allow people who are visually impaired to read comic books, graphic novels and other digitized graphic materials on their devices.