The Office of the Campus Veterinarian (Laboratory Animal Resources Center)
This unit is the central coordinating facility for the care, production, procurement, and use of laboratory animals at WSU. It provides assurance to governmental agencies, granting authorities, accrediting bodies, and the public that all animals utilized by WSU in teaching, research, and testing are cared for in a humane manner consistent with established federal and state guidelines. The Office also provides formal presentations, informal assistance, and educational services to assist instructors and investigators in their use of animals.
Center for Integrated Biotechnology (CIB)
CIB is an organized research unit that operates as an interdepartmental, intercollege and multidisciplinary program across campus. It broadly defines biotechnology as the use of living organisms or their products to modify human health and the human environment. The applications are extensive and have already had critical impact in agriculture, human health, and environmental protection.
CIB promotes multi-investigator research programs and the development of new and innovative advanced technologies, and is designed to enhance and increase the level of basic and applied research done in biotechnology at WSU. CIB promotes interactions with the biotechnology industry through spin-out companies and technology transfer.
University research plays a critical role in the biotechnology industry and the center's role is to facilitate this process. The center operates Core Laboratories that provide high-tech centralized services to members in areas such as bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics. These cores enhance faculty research capabilities and improve opportunities to compete for federal and industry research grants and contracts. The center's integrated activities include seminars, workshops, and retreats to promote interactions with members across campus. CIB has more than 160 research faculty and is expanding.
WSU's Office of Grant and Research Development (OGRD)
OGRD's mission is to assist university faculty and graduate students in securing extramural support for their scholarly, research, teaching, and community service activities. OGRD promotes and facilitates the procurement of grant and contract funding through information dissemination and outreach, proposal and award processing. OGRD offers education and training for proposal development and writing classes throughout the year.
Office of Intellectual Property Administration
OIPA is the campus resource for patents and technology transfer. In this office, faculty inventions are managed and transferred into the public domain. At the same time, applying for patent protection protects the rights of Washington State University and the inventors.
Nuclear Radiation Center
NRC serves as an all university resource unit supporting research and graduate education related to nuclear engineering and physics, radiochemistry, elemental analysis, and neutron activation analysis.
The Radiation Safety Office
This office administers a program providing for the safe use of radiation machines and radioactive materials in research, service, and instruction at the main campus, urban campuses, and at the extension centers. The activities of this program are conducted in accordance with the statutes and rules of radiation protection specified in WAC-246, and with the conditions enumerated in Radioactive Materials License WN-C003-1 issued by the state of Washington.
The Research Compliance Office
This office provides oversight and coordinates compliance efforts as required by federal and state laws and University policies primarily through close cooperation and coordination with the following faculty/Presidential Committees:
1. Institutional Animal Care and Use
Committee (IACUC)
2. Institutional Bio-safety Committee
(IBC)
3. Institutional Review Board
(IRB)
4. Radiation Safety Committee (RSC)
The Research Compliance Office offers support and help to researchers so they may identify, understand, and comply with all pertinent regulations, rules, and policies. The office is a resource for facilitating the conduct of research at WSU.
Social and Economic Sciences Research Center
The center's mission is to strengthen research in the social, economic, and behavioral sciences at WSU, and is pursued through a variety of activities including a computer-assisted telephone interview facility, mail survey capabilities, personal interviewing capabilities, assistance to faculty in the preparation and submission of research proposals for extramural funding, and efforts to stimulate and organize interdisciplinary research.
Consultation is also provided to faculty, staff, students, and others on the development and implementation of research projects.
The Water Research Center
Although located at WSU, the center is a cooperative venture between WSU and the University of Washington with input from other state research universities. The center's mission is to plan, promote, conduct, and administer research in water resources, to educate and train scientists and engineers through participation in research projects; and to disseminate the results of completed research to users through publications, conferences, seminars, short courses, and symposia. The center consults with state, federal, and private water-interested organizations.
Statistical Services
This is a consulting service provided by the Department of Statistics for WSU faculty, staff, and student researchers. Assistance is provided in the design of experiments and sample surveys, analysis of data including use of statistical packages, and interpretation of results of statistical analyses.
Research Facilities
College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource
Sciences
The College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource
Sciences (CAHNRS)
CAHNRS houses many departments, units and centers whose missions involve research. The Agricultural Research Center (ARC) is the administrative unit within CAHNRS overseeing research performed within the College. Research is conducted within the following departments: Natural Resource Sciences; Animal Sciences; Apparel Merchandising, Design and Textiles; Biological Systems Engineering; Crop and Soil Sciences; Entomology; Food Science and Human Nutrition; Horticulture and Landscape Architecture; Human Development; Interior Design, Plant Pathology; Natural Resource Sciences; Rural Sociology and Statistics; School of Economic Sciences.
The Institute of Biological Chemistry performs fundamental research in the biochemistry and molecular biology of plants. CAHRE houses several centers, collaborative programs for conducting unique interdisciplinary types of research which include the Center for Precision Agriculture Systems, the Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food, the IMPACT Center (International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities and Trade), and the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.
There are collaborative projects and interdisciplinary research projects involving other colleges and urban campuses within the University including: the College of Engineering and Architecture (Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory): the College of Sciences (School of Molecular Biosciences and the Center for Reproductive Biology; The Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning), the College of Veterinary Medicine (Field Disease Investigative Unit), the Interdisciplinary Design Institute (WSU Spokane) and the state of Washington Water Research Center.
The research programs in CAHNRS are diverse and require many sites at which to carry out the work, especially with regard to plant-related sciences. Urban locations having extensive laboratory equipment and field research equipment include the WSU Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (also the location for the Center for Precision Agriculture Systems); the WSU-Tri Cities campus Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory; the WSU Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center; and the WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center.
Other research and extension units include the Lind Dryland Research Unit, the WSU Vancouver Research and Extension Unit, the Long Beach Research and Extension Unit and the Mount Vernon Research and Extension Unit. The Food and Environmental Quality Laboratory has state of the art equipment to detect environmental contaminants. FEQL laboratory faculty seek to ensure the quality and safety of food, the long-term sustainability of food-producing land and the surrounding environment, and economic viability of the agricultural and food industries of the region.
Many WSU scientists are located throughout the state to solve problems associated with production and marketing of Washington's agricultural and forestry products and to provide basic knowledge for improving the efficiency, quality, and quantity of production needed to supply an ever increasing demand for food, fiber, and improvement in the quality of life.
The International Marketing Program
for Agricultural Commodities and Trade--IMPACT
The IMPACT Center funds interdisciplinary research, extension, and teaching to assist the state in exporting its agricultural products. Its major thrusts are in uncovering marketing opportunities, developing strategies to exploit those opportunities, solving economic and technical impediments to current agricultural exports, and finding alternative products or processes with export market potential.
The Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food includes faculty members from Biological Systems Engineering, Food Science and Human Nutrition, Electrical Engineering, Microbiology, and Biochemistry/Biophysics. Research at the center is focused on pulsed electric fields, oscillating magnetic fields, and high hydrostatic pressure as alternatives to more widely used methods of food processing that involve application of heat. These new technologies produce minimally processed, fresh-like, safe food products to meet consumer demand for high quality processed foods without degradation, which often accompanies thermal processing methods.
The Center for Precision Agricultural Systems fosters collaborative research, education, and outreach programs that produce practical technologies and management systems for Precision Agriculture. The center brings university expertise from agriculture, engineering, computer science, and other units across the state and external collaborators to address critical issues preventing economic implementation of information-based agriculture. Technologies include sensors for monitoring plant and environment status, software for data analysis and modeling, decision models for system optimization, and equipment to implement precision management decisions. These technologies and related educational offerings support competitive production of agricultural commodities, while stimulating economic development and protecting the environment and natural resources.
The Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR) works to create sustainable agriculture and natural resource systems providing a high quality of life for the people of Washington. The CSANR leads in developing and implementing interdisciplinary systems-oriented research and education programs at WSU. CSANR facilitates work toward sustainable agricultural systems, provides information through educational activities and publications, encourages the use of sustainable agriculture practices including improving air, water and soil quality, and attempts to strengthen rural communities by providing farming opportunities for future generations. It sponsors capacity building programs in the areas of consensus building and conflict.
The majority of the coursework undertaken by graduate students in CAHNRS is centralized on the Pullman campus. On the Pullman campus most CAHNRS faculty hold joint appointments in teaching and research. In addition, many of the research scientists at the other research centers around the state are members of the Graduate Faculty. They serve in varying degrees in the academic guidance of graduate students in CAHNRS and in the direction of thesis work. The association of graduate students with the Agricultural Research Center research programs, scientists, equipment and facilities offers a depth of experience and training beyond that ordinarily encountered.
College of Business
Small Business Development Center
The SBDC, located at WSU Spokane, provides training programs, research services, and management counseling to business firms and communities throughout Washington. To this end, the center draws on its own professional staff as well as on the resources of the University and other cooperating Washington institutions of higher education. The center's Business Development specialists provide no-fee, confidential, one-on-one counseling on all management topics. The counselors have certified, broad-based skills and significant experience as business owners or managers. They help improve profitability and growth with assistance in buying, selling or starting a business, preparing a business plan, choosing and incorporating new technology, analyzing financials, and improving marketing.
Business counseling is also available through Net-Counseling. This innovative program permits live, face-to-face business counseling and technical assistance over the Internet from a designated NetCounseling site or a business owner’s office or home PC.
In addition to business counseling, the SBDC evaluates new products through its Innovation Assessment Center on a fee basis. The SBDC provides business training through many Washington community colleges. They offer seminars, workshops and conferences to assist small business owners and operators with specific skills and methods to maintain or expand their business.
College of Engineering and Architecture
The Center for Materials Research
is an interdisciplinary effort involving faculty from physics, chemistry, mechanical and materials engineering. It involves more than 20 researchers and attracts significant funding for equipment and research in such projects as deformation and fracture, diamond and thin films, soft lithography, semiconductors, electron tunneling microscopy, and nondestructive probes (e.g., positron beams) of defects in solids at the atomic and nuclear levels (www.cea.wsu.edu/cmr).
The Center for Multiphase Environmental Research
is an NSF IGERT center that coordinates research designed to understand the complex biological, chemical, and physical phenomena that describe environmental transport phenomena. Research is designed to understand such phenomena at a variety of scales, ranging from the molecular to the regional. Priority projects address specific industry-related problems for which the technology will be transferred. Faculty and students in biological systems engineering, chemical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, chemistry, soil sciences, geology, and microbiology collaborate. More than 35 PhD students participate in the research programs coordinated by this Center (www.cmer.wsu.edu).
The Wood Materials and Engineering Laboratory
is the only university-based forest product research lab in a college of engineering and architecture in the U.S. It conducts research for scores of companies and governmental groups annually. It helped revolutionize such composite materials as adhesives and polymers, laminated veneer lumber, end-gluing or finger-jointing of green lumber, and nondestructive testing of wood. More than three decades of annual Particle Board Symposia have drawn forest product leaders together worldwide. Faculty research has helped minimize waste by-products and sustain timber supplies, and develop affordable low-cost housing. The wood I-joints in many homes today were developed two decades ago in the lab. Today, grain and wheat growers in northeastern Washington are learning to recycle wheat by-products into building composites; and in Seattle, the Clean Washington Center is demonstrating how scrap wood and plastics also can be converted into composites. See www.wmel.wsu.edu.
The Center for the Design of Analog-Digital Integrated Circuits
is an NSF-sponsored industry-university research consortium in integrated circuitry that addresses electronics industry problems in the fast growing field of mixed signal design. Emphasis is on research in low-voltage circuits, wireless communication, and design for high-performance data converters and associated simulation, modeling, and layout tools. It has garnered more than 24 industrial and four university partners and has involved more than 210 students since it began in 1990. See www.eecs.wsu.edu/cdadic.
The Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSerc)
is a multi-university collaborative research center supported by the National Science Foundation and the Electrical Power Research Institute. PSerc supports research on the practical problems and those particularly associated with a restructured deregulated power industry. WSU was invited to join PSerc because of its strong power engineering program.
The Center for Nonthermal Processing of Food
investigates preservation of food by high-voltage pulsed electric field, microwaves, ultra-high pressure, oscillating magnetic fields, and combines methods. It draws both extramural corporate and government support. Novel food preservation and packaging techniques are developed for the U.S. military.
The Albrook Hydraulic Laboratory
provides engineering services to government and industry in hydraulics and water resources. For more than four decades, it has helped solve hydroelectric power problems, salmon fish recovery efforts, facilities construction, flood mitigation, land-based hazardous waste management, hydrology, and engineered wetlands (www.wsu.edu/~albrook/).
The Imaging Research Laboratory
uses the resources of signal processing, computer graphics and computational geometry in support of image, video and geometry compression, shape representation and description, graphics hardware design and animation production. www.eecs.wsu.edu/~irl.
The Laboratory for Atmospheric Research
is recognized worldwide for its pioneering role in development of regional and national emission inventories, tracer methods to measure air and ground gas pollution of all kinds, worldwide methane emissions surveys, windblown dust, and photochemical air contamination in the Northwest. Recent investigations include Spokane and Puget Sound health hazard research on small air particulates, ozone concentration in the Puget Sound region, and improved understanding of global warming by measuring biogenic hydrocarbons released from vegetation. See www.ce.wsu.edu/LAR/.
The centers for Virtual Reality In Design and Manufacturing, and Advanced Multiphase Materials Processing work with industry on practical problems in superplastic forming, rapid prototyping, mass transfer, geometric modeling and other related areas.
College of Liberal Arts
Under the direction of Professor Susan Dente Ross, AccessNorthwest strives to increase access to and use of government information, particularly by disenfranchised populations. Her group hopes to enhance civic engagement and to build a more informed electorate for a stronger democracy.
The Consortium for Communication and Decision Making, led by Professor Erica Weintraub Austin and Bruce E. Pinkleton, studies scientific-based development and scientific evaluation of media literacy interventions, especially as they apply to health campaigns. Professor Moon Lee also evaluates technology such as hypertext and the choices it provides, and she analyzes how people use that technology.
The Digital Recording Studio
was established in 2003 to serve the programmatic needs of the Music Program within the School of Music & Theatre Arts. Located in Kimbrough Music Building, the studio provides an ideal acoustic setting for limited scope recordings in the studio, and processing of on-location recordings from other venues. The recording studio is equipped with a Fazioli Concert Grand Piano and the most current versions of the requisite digital recording, editing, and processing equipment.
The Hearing and Speech Clinic
located in the Health Sciences Building on the WSU Spokane campus, is operated jointly by the WSU Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and the Eastern Washington University Communication Disorders Department. The Hearing and Speech Clinic is a state-of-the-art facility that serves the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences' tripartite missions in teaching, research and service. The Clinic provides a full range of assessment and rehabilitation services to the community in the areas of speech, voice, language, and hearing. Graduate students gain valuable clinical experiences with patients across the lifespan under supervision of nationally certified and state licensed faculty. Clinic clientele are invited to participate in master's thesis research approved by the WSU and EWU Institutional Research Boards (IRB).
The Humanities Research Center
was established in 1980 by the Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division (now College of Liberal Arts) to provide shared facilities, equipment, and consulting services in support of humanistic research by the faculty of the College. The facilities and services of the Center are available to all faculty in the College subject to a schedule of project priorities, and since 1984 computing support has been provided to all graduate students in the College. This support is predominantly in the area of text processing (production of books, articles, and dissertations) and photocomposition of scholarly journals, as well as new visual media communications.
The Laboratory for the Study of Communication Emotion and Cognition
investigates how media message characteristics affect cognitive and emotional re-sponses to messages. The lab’s interim director is Professor Mija Shin.
The Language Learning Resource Center (LLRC)
was established in 1912 by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures as a teaching resource center. Since its inception the Center has been a focal point within the Department for exploring the use of technology in the teaching of languages. Continuing in this tradition the LLRC is today engaged in managing and maintaining two computer-based language learning labs offering undergraduate and graduate students access to course specific on-line language learning tools and resources. Additionally, the Center manages and maintains a Departmental web server and a streaming audio/video server that together provide students with 24-hour access to a wealth of language related educational and informational resources. Of course the LLRC also maintains equipment (such as audio and video tape players) for accessing its extensive collection of traditional audio and video resources. Overall the LLRC is both an established language learning service center for the Department and at the same time a research tool for faculty interested in exploring new teaching techniques and technologies and building new language learning tools and resources.
Undergraduate Human Psychophysiology Laboratory
This laboratory combines the standard E-prime computer software for testing of cognition and behavior along with equipment for the examination of central nervous system activity responsible for cognition and behavior. The laboratory provides state of the art technology for measurement of brain activity by means of electroencephalograph (EEG). Also included are devices for peripheral physiological measurement of skin conductance response (SCR ) and cardiovascular activity. The laboratory is designed to be used by Undergraduates with minimal technical training, but is also available for use by Graduate students.
The Sociological Data Processing Center
and the Social Science Computing Laboratory are important resources for graduate students in the sociology program. Supported by the College of Liberal Arts, they are located adjacently in 231 and 233, Wilson Hall. They serve many functions, including provision of the following: Internet access and email, access to the campus UNIX system, data manipulation and analysis programs, graphics and image processing software and consultation services for statistical techniques and procedures.
While the Sociological Data Processing Center is reserved exclusively for graduate students and faculty, the Social Science Computing Laboratory is used primarily for graduate students and faculty course instruction in the College of Liberal Arts. In all, there are 28 Gateway 2000 Pentium computers with large 17-inch displays for student use. High-speed laser printers, scanners, and mass storage devices ensure that graduate students have access to quality computing resources. In recent years, new computer labs for graduate students have been installed in Anthropology, including one devoted to Physical Anthropology, and in Political Science. Another computer lab in Fine Arts is presently being expanded.
The Writing Laboratory
Established in 1983 by the Department of English, is an instructional resource center serving students and faculty who want assistance with writing. The Laboratory offers several courses, an on-line writing component, and is a consulting resource for instructors who want assistance in incorporating writing into their courses.
The Thomas S. Foley Institute for Public Policy and Public Service
established in 1995 by the College of Liberal Arts, supports congressional and legislative studies, public policy research voter education, and community outreach. The Institute will also provide opportunities for public service internships in congress, state legislatures and other governmental and non-profit organization.
The Division of Governmental Studies and Services
employs graduate students on research projects relating to government and public affairs, administers an internship program to provide practical experience in government, and maintains a collection of specialized government publications.
College of Sciences
The Electron Microscopy Center
Located in Science Hall, EMC is available for training and research in science and technology. WSU students, staff, and faculty members have access to the facilities for training consultation, and service work under flexible conditions designed to provide maximal use of the EMC. Formal courses in electron microscopy are offered by the Center. The EMC maintains three transmission electron microscopes (including an analytical TEM equipped with STEM and EDX), a scanning electron microscope, also with EDX, a new confocal microscope, and a full complement of ancillary equipment and facilities. The Center has a skilled staff experienced in handling a wide range of research problems in electron microscopy.
Environmental Research Center
is closely integrated with the academic Program in Environmental Science and Regional Planning and is the focal point for university development of interdisciplinary research on problems related to the environment.
The James Richard Jewett Observatory
This facility is the gift of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Jewett of Spokane and is named in honor of Mr. Jewett’s father, a former professor of ancient languages at Harvard University. The observatory houses a twelve-inch refractor with a visual lens and a twenty-five foot revolving dome. The University Planetarium is located in Sloan Hall 231. Information about open house and group tours of either the Observatory or Planetarium can be obtained by contacting the Program in Astronomy.
A Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
The NMR is in the new Chemistry Synthesis Building. The Center houses three high-field superconducting NMR instruments. Additional instruments will be added within five years. The prime purpose of the instruments is to characterize structures of biological samples as solids or in solution for faculty and students in the sciences, agriculture, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy.
The Institute for Shock Physics
The ISP was created in 1997 from the Shock Dynamics Center and given a broader mission. The Institute is involved in shock wave research that promotes the understanding of physical and chemical changes in solids and liquids under very rapid and large compressions, and applying this knowledge to fundamental and applied problems of strategic national interest. Scientific activities at the Institute examine physical and chemical changes at extreme conditions through: time-resolved, optical spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction to probe atomic and molecular processes in shock wave experiments; time-resolved, continuum measurements in shock wave experiments; static high pressure measurements using diamond-anvil-cell experiments; and theoretical developments and computational modeling to stimulate dynamic compression phenomena at different length scales. The Institute’s Applied Sciences Laboratory, a multidsci-plinary contract research organization, undertakes a broad range of applied research activities of interest to industry and government agencies; it is located at WSU Spokane.
The Laboratory for Bioanalysis and Biotechnology (LBB)
The LBB has three units with closely related but distinct functions, ie., LBB I provides protein and DNA sequencing as well as peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis as well as gene chip analyzers for genomics research. LBB II houses four mass spectrometers to do proteomics and high resolution analyses of biological macromolecules. LBB III provides amino acid analysis of peptides and other biological materials.
To assist the University in attracting and conducting research in materials-related areas and to strengthen the educational capabilities of the University, the Center for Materials Research was established as an interdisciplinary unit to serve the scientific community. The Center promotes interaction between researchers, provides mechanisms to improve educational programs in materials science, and provides a focal point for the purchase and construction of shared equipment and the development of other resources. It is shared between the Colleges of Science and Engineering and Architecture.
The Center for Reproductive Biology
The CRB was formed in 1996 and is now comprised of 77 faculty investigators at WSU, the University of Idaho and National Marine Fisheries. The broadest definition possible is used for reproductive biology and research associated with the Center. In mammals any process involved or related to reproduction including neuroendocrine control, gonadal function, gamete biology, fertilization, implantation, pregnancy, reproductive tract biology, reproductive disease, (e.g. breast cancer) and fertility. In addition, reproduction in non-mammalian species and plants is considered. The current faculty has areas of interest from domestic animal and human reproduction to fish and plant reproduction. This diversity in research areas is a major strength of the Center and fosters collaborations not previously considered. The objectives of the Center are to foster research of the highest quality and promote collaborative interactions among Center members; enhance opportunities for extramural funding with an emphasis on multi-investigator grants; and to enhance the training and education programs of advanced undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellows with an interest in the biology of reproduction. Additionally, the Center operates 11 Core Laboratories that provide high-tech centralized services to members. These cores enhance faculty research capabilities and improve opportunities to compete for federal and industry research grants and contracts. For more information on the Center please visit our web site at http://www.reproduction.wsu.edu.
College of Veterinary Medicine
Since its creation in 1974, The Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (WADDL)
has provided essential laboratory services in bacteriology, parasitology, pathology, serology, toxicology, and virology. The Laboratory is an integral part of a network of tax-supported state diagnostic reference facilities throughout the United States dedicated to the betterment of animal and human health. WADDL has a responsibility to provide appropriate, timely results to safeguard the health of livestock, pets, poultry, and fish in the Pacific Northwest and to protect the public from zoonotic diseases. Advice and consultation is provided to practicing veterinarians, animal industry groups, state and federal regulatory officials, and physicians. WADDL also provides centralized service for the College by providing electron microscopy and histology support.
The Animal Health Research Center (AHRC)
provides oversight of research programs within the College of Veterinary Medicine, with an emphasis on diseases of agricultural animals and public health. Center research is divided into core programs that include transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, foodborne diseases and antimicrobial resistance, immunology and vaccine development, microbial and host genomics, vector-borne diseases, and lentiviral diseases. In conjunction with the College departmental graduate programs, AHRC research programs provide undergraduate research and graduate education opportunities.
Institute of Biological Chemistry
The Institute of Biological Chemistry is dedicated to
research on fundamental aspects of biological chemistry
relevant to agriculture and forestry. Although not
offering a formal course of study leading to a degree,
the Institute provides research opportunities to fulfill
the requirements for the Master of Science and Doctor of
Philosophy in the graduate programs in the School of
Molecular Biosciences (biochemistry/biophysics,
chemistry, genetics and cell biology), as well as in
plant physiology and other allied biological and
agricultural disciplines.
Research fellowships and assistantships are available in the Institute for incoming students on a competitive basis. Teaching assistantships are available from cooperating instructional departments and programs through which entry to the Graduate School is obtained.
The most important component of any doctorate pro-gram involves independent study and original research in the area of the student’s interest. The internationally recognized research programs of the Institute cover a broad spectrum of areas from plant biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetic engineering to plant pathology and pest resistance, as well as the traditional areas of biochemistry. These programs receive support from federal, state and private sources. The Institute thus offers a unique opportunity for graduate training in an intensive research environment which complements formal study leading to the chosen degree. All recent graduates are in positions appropriate to their training in academic, industrial and governmental institutions.
The Institute is housed in modern, well-equipped laboratories, and enjoys the support of centralized campus research facilities. Broad-based support of the Institute through the cooperative efforts of several colleges within the University assures a solid foundation for a wide scope of research activities, and provides for strong interaction of the Institute faculty with other scientists. The Institute also cooperates with agricultural, academic and industrial organizations at the regional, national, and international levels. An active seminar and visiting scientists program further contributes to the focused research environment.
Cancer Prevention and Research Center
The interdisciplinary Cancer Prevention and Research
Center functions as the focal point of cancer prevention
research at Washington State University. While serving to
catalyze and coordinate collaborative efforts around the
University, the Center also provides central support
services and shared facilities for on-going research.
Center for the Study of Animal Well-Being
The Center for the Study of Animal Well-Being is a joint
development between the College of Veterinary Medicine
and the Department of Animal Sciences in the College of
Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences. The
primary mission of the Center is to generate and
disseminate new knowledge to make animal well-being and
human-animal interactions better understood. Research
areas include indicators of animal well-being, objective
assessment of stress and pain, animal behavior and
preferences, and the interrelationship of animal health
and well-being to production and performance.
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology
The Center for Teaching Learning, and Technology is a central resource for all WSU instructors, including graduate teaching assistants. The CTLT works with faculty to identify and implement strategic methods of incorporating successful teaching approaches into their courses and programs. In addition, the CTLT applies current scholarship on effective teaching and learning to develop a variety of resources to help instructors in their efforts. The CTLT's resources include consultations about course and learning activity design, assessment techniques, and integrating instructional technologies; frequent discussions and workshops; and on-line technologies for learning and assessment. CTLT is located in ITB 2001B and can be reached at 509/335-1355 or ctlt@wsu.edu.