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The Office of Research releases FY17 Annual Research Report

The Office of Research announces the FY17 Annual Research Report is now available online. The report highlights significant and impactful research and achievements.

One of 2017’s most exciting accomplishments was the selection of WSU to lead a nationwide consortium of U.S. universities and industry partners in a five-year, $30 million joint research project with university and industry partners in India to advance the development of the power grid in both countries.

This report highlights other significant and impactful examples of WSU research, including:

  • WSU scientists addressing growing global concern about the spread of antimicrobial resistance in Africa to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria to the U.S. and other parts of the globe,
  • WSU researchers receiving a $1.57 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand the molecular-scale of mechanisms that cause cardiomyopathy,
  • WSU researchers’ discovery of “negative mass,” wherein a fluid was observed to accelerate in the opposite direction in which it was “pushed.” This was one of the top-cited articles on the physics.org website in 2017.

Additionally, the year also marked notable achievements in WSU faculty recognition. Four WSU faculty, Amit Bandyopadhyay, Susmita Bose, Douglas Call, and Jonathan Yoder, were elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Katrina L. Mealey, WSU associate dean for research and professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Pizhong Qiao, professor in WSU’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was named a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Engineering Mechanics Institute. Jean-Sabin McEwen and Steven R. Saunders, assistant professors in the Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, and Dae Hyun Kim, assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received early career awards from the National Science Foundation. And, Don Dillman, WSU Regents Professor, received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the American Association for Public Opinion Research for designing a new survey method that is now used in censuses around the world.

To read the full report, visit https://research.wsu.edu/documents/2019/02/2017-annual-report.pdf/.