16-17: Innovation and Research
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| Making Light Work | Composites could have significant potential for of the production of jigs. This potential is illustrated by the first carbon fibre-reinforced (CFRP) jig to be used in North America, which was employed to install the bonnet of the Ford Mustang some ten years ago. The lead researcher on… |
2016-10-07 | |
| Get to know CEDAR, Western's institutional respository | 2016-10-05 | ||
| PNNL to help develop STEM teaching program | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland will help with a National Science Foundation-funded project to develop programs in Washington state to prepare the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math teachers. The foundation provided $3 million in grants to… |
2016-09-27 | |
| Western’s Jeff Grimm Gets New $100,000 Grant from National Institutes of Health for his Research on Addictions and Cravings | 2016-09-27 | ||
| WWU Gets $1.8 Million NSF Grant to Research STEM Teacher Prep in Washington | 2016-09-20 | ||
| WWU professor studying why certain predominantly Muslim nations have higher rates of women engineers than U.S. | New research aims to help reverse decades of failed efforts to increase the percentage of women in engineering in the United States by studying nations where the disparity is not as severe: Jordan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia. |
2016-09-14 | |
| Western’s Marco Hatch Awarded $300,000 NSF Grant to Start New Coastal Almanac Citizen-Science Initiative | 2016-09-13 | ||
| Proxima b’s star could be blasting away the planet’s atmosphere | Proxima b, just revealed as the nearest exoplanet to Earth, is probably battered by incredible bursts of energy from its star every few months. That could be bad news for the prospects of finding life on our neighbouring world. Stars, including our sun, produce flares when their magnetic fields… |
2016-08-29 | |
| Dreaming Of The Red Planet: WWU Professor On Finding A Home For The Next Mars Rover | For a long time, Melissa Rice's big dream was dance. She wanted to be a ballerina ever since she saw "The Nutcracker" at four years old. In high school, she danced three hours a day at the Pacific Northwest Ballet. “And it got to the point where my friends who were continuing… |
2016-08-29 | |
| The Earth Next Door | Jim Davenport, a postdoctoral fellow at Western Washington University, believes Proxima b’s biggest obstacle to Earth-like conditions is likely to be Proxima Centauri’s continual flares, which can be ten times more energetic than any ever observed on our Sun. Harsh x-rays and… |
2016-08-24 |