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Undergraduate Research Award Applications Open for 2023-24

PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University undergraduate students can apply online now through Jan. 20, 2023 for any of seven awards to support their mentored undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activities in academic year 2023-24.

A variety of awards are available to all students. Three are presented by the Office of Undergraduate Research in the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA). Others are from the WSU LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) program, the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, and the Team Mentoring Program (TMP). A grant for research into arts and humanities topics is available from the WSU Emeritus Society.

Students must provide information about their research in their application. Their faculty mentor must endorse the application online by Jan. 27, 2023. » More …

WSU Undergraduate Research Presents Awards to Garza, Herron, Rieck

PULLMAN, Wash.—The Washington State University Office of Undergraduate Research presented its annual Recognition of Excellence in Support of Undergraduate Research Awards to Javier Garza, Bryan Herron, and Daniel Rieck for 2022. They were recognized at the April 14 Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA) annual awards event.

The award honors those who support undergraduate research programming and students in unique and important ways. The awardees were credited with making tremendous impacts as individuals and as a team, for providing wide-ranging and highly skilled technological and website support to undergraduate-research efforts, and for providing detailed and ever-evolving professional assistance in multiple instances. » More …

WSU Names Jeremy Lessmann to Lead Office of Undergraduate Research

Jeremy Lessmann, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research whose appointment started in spring 2022.

Jeremy Lessmann, Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research whose appointment started in spring 2022.Pullman, Wash.—Washington State University has appointed Jeremy J. Lessmann, chemistry associate professor, as the director of the Office of Undergraduate Research (UR).

The UR is part of the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA) in the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President and Pullman Chancellor.

“Jeremy brings to his new position a wealth of knowledge about, and experience with, the office and undergraduate research, in general, and we are excited to have him on board as its leader,” said Mary Sánchez Lanier, assistant vice provost.

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Applications Open for Undergraduate Research Awards for 2022-23

PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University undergraduate students can apply online now through Jan. 21, 2022 for seven awards totaling over $50,000 to support mentored undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activities in academic year 2022-23, said Mary Sánchez Lanier, assistant vice provost.

“Thanks to the vision of generous donors and other funding for seven awards, students from all majors and campuses can become recipients,” she said.

“Engaging in undergraduate research gives awardees high-impact, hands-on learning experiences. It also allows them to spend more time concentrating on their research efforts rather than having to work at a job, for example.”

A variety of awards are available this year. Three are presented by the Office of Undergraduate Research in the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement (DAESA), and another is awarded by DAESA’s WSU LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) program. One more is from the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, another from the Team Mentoring Program (TMP), and a grant is available from the WSU Emeritus Society.

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WSU Emeritus Society Announces Five Undergraduate Research Awards, Two Grants

PULLMAN, Wash.—The Washington State University Emeritus Society of retired faculty members has selected seven students to receive awards and grants to support their undergraduate research efforts, group spokesman Tom Brigham said.

“As retired faculty from disciplines across the university, we feel it’s important to do what we can to encourage students’ research, scholarship, and creative activities,” said Brigham. “This allows us to contribute to the continued advancement of WSU, our community, and the state.

“We are very honored to present awards to undergraduate researchers in five categories, and our new arts and humanities grant to our first two awardees.”

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WSU Welcomes Colin Mannex to Lead Office of Undergraduate Research

Colin Mannex, associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Research.

PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University has selected Colin Mannex as its new associate director of the Office of Undergraduate Research.

“Colin brings a wealth of experience in education to the program and is excited to help our university and students advance high-impact learning activities associated with student research, scholarship, and creative activities,” said Mary Sánchez Lanier, assistant vice provost.

“I’m looking forward to building relationships with my colleagues university-wide as we find new, exciting, and unexpected points of connection in the work that we do to enhance student experience and success at WSU,” said Mannex.

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WSU Undergraduate Research Award Applications Open Through March 5, 2021

PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University students can apply online now through March 5, 2021 for a variety of awards to support their mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities in academic year 2021-22, said Mary Sanchez Lanier, assistant vice provost.

“Thanks to the vision of generous donors and other funding, recipients of these awards—students from all majors and campuses—can afford to spend more time concentrating on their research efforts rather than having to work at a job,” she said.

Five types of awards are available this year. Two are presented by the Office of Undergraduate Research in the Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement, one is from the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, another is awarded by the WSU LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation) program, and the fifth from the Team Mentoring Program (TMP). » More …

WSU Students Land Awards at ABRCMS Multicultural STEM Conference

PULLMAN, Wash. — Two Washington State University seniors received awards for their undergraduate research presentations at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) on Nov. 13.

Jenna Pederson, a general studies in biological sciences major from Silverdale, received one of 13 awards in the physiology and pharmacology category, which was sponsored by Merck & Co. and the Society for Leukocyte Biology. Her research project is titled, “Can Human Pain be Modeled in a Rat?” Her WSU faculty mentor is Rebecca Craft.

Ezra Mead, a genetics and cell biology major from Olympia, received an award in the category of immunology, sponsored by the American Association of Immunology. Mead’s research project is titled, “Characterizing the Role of Insulin-mediated Immune Signaling During West Nile Viral Infection in Diabetic D. melanogaster Models.” He is mentored by Alan Goodman and graduate student Chasity Trammel.

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WSU Lands NIH Grant for Biomedical, Engineering Undergraduate MIRA Program

Sanchez Lanier, Gizerian, Kostyukova co-PIs

PULLMAN, Wash. — A new five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant for more than $700,000 will fund a “motivating innovation and research achievement” (MIRA) program for Washington State University underrepresented student researchers in biomedical science and engineering fields, said the three faculty members serving as co-principal investigators.

Financial, Research Benefits to Participants in Cohort

Applications are now open to incoming freshmen interested in the program. Participants in the MIRA program must be accepted into the WSU Honors College, plan to engage in undergraduate research, and have a long-term interest in a graduate program leading to a research career in biomedical research.

WSU MIRA participants will receive $12,000 for tuition each of four academic years plus $4,000 for summer research with a faculty member.

Applicants must also be part of a group that is underrepresented in sciences—based on racial or ethnic groups, physical or mental impairments, or a low-income family level. Or, they may have come from an educational environment that inhibited them from obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to develop and participate in a research career.

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WSU Anonymous $34,000 Gift Supports Awards for Undergraduate STEM Researchers

MEDIA CONTACT: Mary Sanchez Lanier, assistant vice provost, 509-335-2321, sanchez@wsu.edu.

Beverly Makhani, director of communications and marketing, WSU Division of Academic Engagement and Student Achievement, 509-432-3430, makhani@wsu.edu.

PULLMAN, Wash.—A recent anonymous gift of $34,000 to Washington State University’s Office of Undergraduate Research will fund scholarships for students  in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors who are engaged in mentored research, scholarship, and creative activities, Mary Sanchez Lanier, assistant vice provost, said.

Without such awards, some of our students might not have the time to engage in mentored research because  they otherwise need to seek, and devote time to, external jobs to meet financial obligations associated with college attendance, she said.

“We are very grateful to this generous donor for supporting STEM students and recognizing that undergraduate research is an important activity that adds great value to every student’s education,” she said.

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