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• A global perspective: Viticulture expert to publish grapevine science textbook

  

  PROSSER - WSU viticulturist Markus Keller's book is a bestseller - and it hasn't even been published yet. The textbook, “The Science of Grapevines: Anatomy and Physiology,” has a Feb. 12 publication date. But based on pre-orders, it is already an Amazon.com bestseller in the plants/physiology category. Read more

• Pullman to become smart grid community

  

  PULLMAN - A group of WSU researchers will be working with Avista on a demonstration project that hopes to make the city of Pullman the region’s first smart grid community. The Pullman project is part of a Department of Energy regional smart grid demonstration project throughout the Northwest that is designed to expand upon existing electric infrastructure and test new smart grid technology. Read more

• Aiding quest to make gravitational waves visible

  PULLMAN – Einstein’s general theory of relativity predicts them. And tiny movements in large objects confirm them. But scientists have yet to see gravitational waves. Read more

• How Solid Is Concrete's Carbon Footprint?

  

  PULLMAN, Wash.—Many scientists currently think at least 5 percent of humanity's carbon footprint comes from the concrete industry, both from energy use and the carbon dioxide (CO2) byproduct from the production of cement, one of concrete's principal components. Read more

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• WSU Joins with NASA, USGS CVO in High-Tech Monitoring of Mt. St. Helens

  VANCOUVER, Wash. – Using sensor software written by a team of researchers at Washington State University, a dozen high-tech robotic pods forming a network built to operate in hostile environments are currently being used in hot spots inside and around the mouth of the most deadly and active volcano in the continental United States.

• WSU Astrobiologist Updates Book on the Search for Life Beyond Earth

  PULLMAN, Wash.-The search for life on other worlds goes on, and Dirk Schulze-Makuch has a lot to say about how we should go about it. The Washington State University astrobiologist has just come out with a second edition of the 2004 book he wrote with Louis Irwin of the University of Texas at El Paso. “Life in the Universe: Expectations and Constraints” was so well received that the publisher, Springer, asked him and Irwin to write a second edition just four years later.

• Major Grant Secured for Chemical Study Related to Alternative Energy

  PULLMAN, Wash. – The National Science Foundation has awarded $650,000 to two chemistry faculty members at Washington State University for a research project designed to improve chemical models related to solar-electric energy and other light-sensitive applications.

• WSU Researchers to Use High-Speed Fiber Optic

  PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University’s research community will enjoy the benefits of high-speed fiber optic bandwidth by the beginning of the new semester in 2009. The university’s Information Technology Services division finalized a contract with 360 Network Inc. of Seattle to lease fiber optic cable access with 40 gigabytes per second capacity.

• Anthropologist Receives Funding to Enhance DNA Testing of Ancient Remains

  PULLMAN, Wash. — Anthropologists and detectives have one thing in common: they like to solve a good mystery, and Washington State University assistant professor Brian Kemp is no exception.