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• $1 Million Grant Advances Aquatic Exercise Research

  Thanks to a $1 million grant from the National Swimming Pool Foundation, Washington State University researchers plan to create the National Aquatics and Sports Medicine Institute. “This will be the world’s premiere center for aquatic health research,” said the institute director, Bruce Becker, a physician and research professor in WSU’s College of Education. “There is no other lab with this mission and focus. The foundation’s grant gives us tremendous movement forward. We intend to build on our initial research and fill the knowledge gaps of how water benefits our hearts, lungs and endocrine systems.” Read more

• WSU Researchers Do Landmark Shock Wave Experiments at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

  A team of physicists from Washington State University has successfully completed the first experiments using the nation’s premiere synchrotron X-ray facility to detect shock wave-induced changes in a crystalline material. Read more

• Merial Licenses WSU DNA Testing Technology

  PULLMAN, Wash. -- Washington State University has signed a licensing agreement with Merial Limited., a world-leading animal health company, to commercialize DNA technology that will benefit beef and dairy cattle producers in the selection, breeding and management of their herds. The technology was originally developed by Zhihua Jiang, assistant professor of animal sciences. Read more

• Student Engineers Head to Kenya for Pipeline Project

  PULLMAN, Wash. -- A group of Washington State University engineering students will head to Kenya this month, where they hope to start work to design and build a needed water pipeline for residents there. The students, members of the WSU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, hope to build a nine-mile long pipeline to bring fresh water to residents of Kayafungo, Kenya. Read more

• Whoosh! Goes the Internet: International Research Team Blazes the Optical Trail with Record-Setting Molecules

  

  The internet could soon shift into overdrive thanks to a new generation of optical molecules developed and tested by a team of researchers from Washington State University, the University of Leuven in Belgium and the Chinese Academy of Science in China. Read more

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• Solar House Gets New Westside Home

  PULLMAN, Wash. – A solar home designed and built by a group of Washington State University students gets a new home this week at Shoreline Community College, where it will serve as a demonstration project on zero-energy building. Washington state Representative Maralyn Chase will speak at a dedication ceremony of the Solar Decathlon home, set for Thursday, May 17, at 2 p.m. The event will be held near the Campus Theater on the west side of the Shoreline Community College campus, 16101 Greenwood Avenue North, in Seattle.

• Students to Eat, Drink, Sleep Their Research

  PULLMAN, Wash.-- Students participating in a new National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates this summer will be eating, drinking and sleeping their research. Literally. The students in engineering and computer science will be working to build a “smart’’ apartment that some of them will actually live in as part of their research projects relating to the development of “smart’’ environments. The two-bedroom apartment will be in the Steptoe Buildings in Pullman, Wash.

• WSU Researchers Decipher Key Step in Legume-Bacterial Symbiosis

  Researchers at Washington State University and in the United Kingdom have announced a discovery that may someday allow the world's farmers to decrease their dependence on nitrogen fertilizers, resulting in billions in savings to farmers and a reduction in the amount of nitrogen pollution that has already turned some waterways into dead zones.