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Faculty Book "Brewing Justice" Takes Prestigious Prize
August 27, 2008 |
Awards & Honors |
Daniel Jaffee, assistant professor of Sociology at Washington State University Vancouver, has been awarded the 2007 C. Wright Mills Book Award, from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for his book, “Brewing Justice: : Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival.” Jaffee is the first sociology faculty member at WSU to win this award. He was recently honored at the SSSP Annual Meetings in Boston.
WSU Vancouver Recent Grad's Work Contributes to World Heritage Designation
August 5, 2008 |
Awards & Honors |
The work of Amitava Chowdhury, who received his Ph.D. in History from Washington State University Vancouver in May 2008, has recently contributed to the naming of a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. An archaeological project Chowdhury directed was on the site of the recently declared UNESCO World Heritage Site, Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a rugged mountain jutting into the Indian Ocean in the southwest of the island of Mauritius.
WSU Vancouver Professor Sue Peabody Awarded Gilder Lehrman Fellowship
June 25, 2008 |
Awards & Honors |
Sue Peabody, Professor of History at Washington State University, Vancouver, has been awarded a research fellowship by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Peabody will conduct research in 2009 - 2010 at the New York Historical Society for her book project, “Free Soil: Slaves and the Law in the Atlantic World.”
$2.7 Million NSF Grant Partners Local Grad Students With Science Teachers
January 30, 2008 | Awards & Honors
The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.7 million over five years to Washington State University Vancouver. Under the Graduate Teaching Fellows in K-12 program, or GK-12, up to 10 WSU Vancouver science graduate students per year will partner one-on-one with sixth to ninth grade science teachers in Vancouver, Camas and La Center school districts.
Unique Local MBA Program Named Among Global Top 100
October 18, 2007 | Awards & Honors
Washington State University Vancouver’s unique stakeholder-focused Master of Business Administration program has been honored among The Aspen Institute’s “Beyond Gray Pinstripes Global 100” top alternative business schools, listed at no. 76.
Grants Fund Research for Endangered Butterflies
September 25, 2007 |
Awards & Honors |
Two grants totaling more than $180,000 will ensure solid research to help protect endangered Fender’s Blue Butterflies in Oregon’s Willamette Valley.
Washington State University Vancouver researcher Cheryl Schultz received $37,000 from an Oregon Conservation Strategy Implementation Grant from Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and $146,000 from Oregon Endangered Species Recovery Projects Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue her work studying the ecology of the small, endangered butterflies. The USFWS grant follows $46,000 in 2006 for this work.
Professor Receives Grant to Tackle Global Warming, Ozone Depletion
July 27, 2007 |
Awards & Honors |
Vancouver, Wash. - Researchers at Washington State University Vancouver have received a grant from the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers of close to $90,000 to try to update an old idea into new solutions for two modern environmental problems: excess carbon causing global warming, and ozone depletion.
Amir Jokar, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and his graduate students will spend the next two years collecting and analyzing experimental data using chevron plate heat exchangers to condense carbon dioxide for the purpose of creating refrigeration less harmful to the earth’s atmosphere.
HR Staff Earn Prestigious Professional Certification
July 18, 2007 |
Awards & Honors |
Vancouver, Wash. - Angie Currie and Merlinda Sain, human resources staff at Washington State University Vancouver, have both been certified as Professionals in Human Resources by the Human Resource Certification Institute.
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