The Grantees
Thanks to the generosity of Alaska Airlines, 40 WSU faculty and graduate students can engage in learning and outreach activities related to key sustainability research areas: the food-energy-water nexus, built environment, biofuels, and aerospace. The winners and the activities they will engage in are below.
Food, Energy, Water
Cornelius Adewale, research assistant
Department: Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources
Traveling to: The International Society for Ecological Modeling Global Conference
Nicole Aluwi, graduate student
Department: School of Food Science
Traveling to: IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo 2016
Rachel Bomberger, research associate
Department: Plant Pathology
Traveling to: 4th National Meeting of the National Plant Diagnostic Network
Andrew Child, graduate student
Department: School of the Environment
Traveling to: North American Lake Management Society Conference
Greg Collinge, graduate student
Department: Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and BioEngineering
Traveling to: The 251st American Chemic Society National Meeting & Exposition
Mahmoud Ebrahim Mosa Shehata, research assistant
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: River Flow 2016 Conference
David Favero, research assistant
Department: Crop and Soil Sciences
Traveling to: Plant Biology 2016 Conference
Eric Gale, research assistant
Department: Horticulture
Traveling to: American Society of Enology and Viticulture Annual Meeting
Ryan Kowalski, graduate student
Department: School of Food Science
Traveling to: American Association of Cereal Chemists International Annual Meeting
Marc Kramer, assistant professor
Department: School of the Environment
Traveling to: Annual Hawaii Ecosystems Meeting
Megan Lewien, research assistant
Department: Crop and Soil Sciences
Traveling to: 2016 American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America annual meeting
John Lupinacci, assistant professor
Department: Teaching and Learning
Traveling to: American Educational Research Association’s Annual Meeting
Xiaochi Ma, research assistant
Department: Crop and Soil Sciences
Traveling to: The American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science of America 2016 International Annual Conference
Jean-Sabin McEwen, assistant professor
Department: Gene and Linda Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and BioEngineering
Traveling to: The 251st American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition
Gerald Page, post-doc
Department: College of Arts and Sciences
Travling to: Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting 2016
Ewa Pietrysiak, graduate student
Department: School of Food Science
Traveling to: IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo 2016
Alexandra “Sasha” Richey, research associate
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: Toward Sustainable Groundwater in Agriculture – An International Conference Linking Science and Policy 2016
Begum Rabeya Rushi, research associate
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: ABJ 2016 Conference of Society of Women Engineers
Min Kyu Song, assistant professor
Department: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Traveling to: 6th Annual Next-Generation Energy Storage Conference
John Bishop, associate professor
Department: School of Biological Sciences
Internal event: Dr. Bishop is bringing two speakers to the WSU Vancouver Science Seminars.
Timothy Ginn, professor
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Internal event: Dr. Ginn is bringing two speakers to WSU Pullman for a seminar series.
Boeing Aerospace
Younghwan Cha, research assistant
Department: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Traveling to: 2016 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibits
Rishikesh Ghogare, graduate student
Department: Biological Systems Engineering
Traveling to: 38th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Conference
Subhanshu Gupta, assistant professor
Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Traveling to: 2016 Flexible & Printed Electronics Conference & Exhibition
Jung-In Lee, post-doc
Department: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Traveling to: 18th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries
Rahul Panat, associate professors
Department: School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Traveling to: 145th annual meeting of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
McKinstry Built Environment
TrashWall Student Team: Jannita Bolin and Jodi Bowe
Department: Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture
Traveling to: National Sustainable Design Expo
Zhao Chen, research assistant
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: 11th International Conference on Concrete Pavements
Liv Haselbach, associate professor
Department: Civil Engineering
Traveling to: ASTM E60 Sustainability Fall Meeting
Somayeh Nassiri, assistant professor
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: International Concrete Pavement Conference
Richard “Reed” Norton, research assistant
Department: School of the Environment
Traveling to: Society of Wetland Scientists 2016 Annual Conference
Milena Rangelov, research assistant
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: 11th International Conference on Concrete Pavements
Xinghui Zhao, assistant professor
Department: School of Engineering and Computer Science
Traveling to: 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
NARA Biofuels
Ali Abghari, graduate student
Department: Biological Systems Engineering
Traveling to: 38th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals
Sujala Bhattarai, graduate student
Department: Biological Systems Engineering
Traveling to: 2016 American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Natalie Martinkus, research assistant
Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Traveling to: ESRI Users Conference
Michael “Brennan” Pecha, graduate student
Department: Biological Systems Engineering
Traveling to: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Xiaochao Xiong, postdoc
Department: Biological Systems Engineering
Traveling to: 66th Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology Annual Meeting