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- 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.
- Washington Research Foundation commits more than $1.2 million to postdoctoral entrepreneurship program The program will provide training and support for early career researcher-entrepreneurs to get innovative technologies to market.
- Corinne Fuller appointed as co‑director of WSU‑PNNL Bioproducts Institute Fuller, who has worked at PNNL since 2007, assumed her new role in July. The institute is a research collaboration between WSU and the Richland-based national laboratory.
- NIH-grant funds research on hearing side-effects from medications A $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help WSU researchers determine if new drugs used to treat COVID‑19 may be linked to hearing loss.
- Horticulture Ph.D. student receives $10,000 scholarship The Potato Leadership, Education, and Advancement Foundation announced WSU doctoral student Jacob Meeuwsen as the recipient of the organization’s 2023–24 academic scholarship.
- Murrow College to lead $2.4 million effort to support Washington’s local news A new fellowship program will increase news coverage of underrepresented communities across Washington state by pairing eight early-career journalists with newsrooms for two-year, full-time reporting positions.
- WSU Tri-Cities master’s student joins Board of Regents Isaac Marroquin, a master’s student at WSU Tri-Cities who served in several student leadership roles as an undergraduate, is joining the university’s Board of Regents as the next student regent.
- WSU ELEVATE conference focuses on cutting-edge teaching topics Faculty and teaching graduate students can now register online for the Aug. 16 system-wide ELEVATE conference focused on the theme of “Timely Topics to ELEVATE Your Teaching.”
- Graduate training in ‘robot-human interface’ awarded National Science Foundation grant A new generation of WSU engineers will learn not only how to build better robots but also how to make them work better with, and for, humans — thanks in part to a $3 million NSF grant.
- Astrophysics graduate student Marlo Ramo Morales honored as DOE fellow Morales, working on developing a greater understanding of black holes and gravitational waves, has been selected to receive a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship.