By Yesenia Amaro,
Daily News staff writer
Jed Brawell considers himself a nerd because he reads a lot of books and plays video games.The Washington State University junior is one of 32 "nerds" who signed up to participate in the second annual "Nerdy and the Greek" fundraising event at WSU. Last year's inaugural nerd auction gained notoriety throughout the Northwest.Proceeds from the event go to an endowment that provides scholarships for women studying computer science. The three sororities that are participating in the auction also will raise money for their own philanthropies.

From The Columbian

They’d worked two years for this day, and it was perfect. The sun was shining, the air was cool and dense, and Mount St. Helens refrained from blowing her unforgiving wind.  They drove up around 11 a.m., two hydrologists from U.S. Geological Survey, the computer science professor from Washington State University Vancouver and a carload of graduate students who had worked on the volcano project with them.

From the WSU News Service
PULLMAN, Wash. - Fluke Corporation this week announced the donation of numerous calibration and measuring instruments,including multiple power quality analyzers and a network analyzer, for use by the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University. All electrical engineering teaching labs at WSU rely on the use of such instrumentation. And because much of the lab work involves chip designs which operate at very low voltages, the maintenance of state-of-the-art, properly functioning test equipment is key to ensuring that theequipment doesn't do damage to the very devices it is being used to test.

With over thirty-five people it was a packed house for the ASP.net workshop.  Jon was a great presenter and was able to impart something to everyone. The ACM is very grateful that he spent his time and effort to share his knowledge with us.

A workshop doesn’t happen all by itself and the ACM would like to thank all those people who pitched in. First of course is Professor Hagemeister who provided both the presenter and the projector. I’m pretty sure without either one of those the workshop would have been much less interesting. Ryan Makamson and John Yates let us use the lab for the workshop (John even helped us take down the barrier).Last but not least is Dr. Shirazi who gave us the money for breakfast and lunch.

With a generous gift of $150,000 over five years from Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington State University School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty members Mohamed Osman and Luis Perez will offer engineering and science students the opportunity to learn about a variety of renewable energy sources in a course focusing on wind, solar and fuel cell energy, as well as exploring emerging technologies.

By Becky Phillips

WSUToday

WSU computer scientist Diane Cook was awarded $790,906 by the Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund for her project, “Smart home-based health platform for functional monitoring and intervention".  

The project aims to create a "smart" home environment that will enable individuals with cognitive or physical limitations to function independently and remain in their own homes.

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University honored Don Kopczynski, with the inaugural Hower Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service at the annual EECS Graduation and Awards Banquet held April 17th in Pullman, WA.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Scientists at Washington State University and the University of Washington are spearheading a public, international effort to map and unlock the secrets of the apple genome to develop better tree fruit faster.

“The Washington apple is an icon of quality around the globe,” said Dan Bernardo, dean of the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. “This is a natural home for the advanced science necessary to map the tree fruit genome and actively study how it functions.”

WSU’s Agricultural Research Center is providing seed money for the project as part of its larger investment in basic and applied plant science programs. “Investing in this program is a matter of building on our strengths in horticulture to leverage bottom-line results for industry,” said Ralph Cavalieri, associate dean and ARC director.