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• Doctoral candidate helps train educators to use extended reality tools Ali Asiri provides a variety of professional development workshops and hands‑on instruction to help educators at WSU and in the Pullman community use extended reality in the classroom.
• Recent PhD graduate receives top dissertation award Zhipeng Li, now a civil engineering postdoctoral researcher, has been recognized with the Milton Pikarsky award for the best dissertation in the field of science and technology in transportation studies.
• Individual Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program updated to better serve students Now in its 40th year, the WSU program is updating its learning goals to better serve the researchers, teachers, and leaders it helps train.
• Machine can quickly produce needed cells for cancer treatment A bioreactor developed by WSU researchers to rapidly grow cancer-killing white blood cells could advance the availability of immunotherapy.
• WSU student honored for dedication to mental healthcare Nursing graduate student Derek Greenwood was recently awarded the Lois Spratlen Foundation Scholarship for serving those in rural areas with substance abuse and mental health issues.
• Cougar Cage funding reaches total of nearly $750,000 A proposal to tackle the rising threat of antibiotic resistant “superbugs” was one of three projects that received funding as part of the most recent Cougar Cage event on Sept. 8.
• Business technology symposium explores role of information systems in business success The symposium, “Information Systems: The Backbone of Business,” is free and open to the public. It will be held 1–3 p.m. Friday at the CUB Auditorium and livestreamed.
• EU policymakers look to WSU gene-editing expertise Professor Jon Oatley was recently invited to speak at an EU conference on agricultural biotechnology about his research on gene-editing livestock.
• Desire to improve food safety leads Afghan student to WSU Barakatullah Mohammadi saw firsthand the effects of food borne illnesses growing up in Afghanistan. Now a WSU graduate student, he will receive a prestigious national food and agriculture research fellowship.
• Gene required for root hair growth, nitrate foraging found in grasses Scientists have found a plant gene that drives the growth of root hairs, the tiny structures that help plants find water and nutrients in the soil.