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A $1.2 million Washington Research Foundation (WRF) grant will help fund a training program for entrepreneurs at Washington State University later this year. The Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) supports early-career innovators…

A framework that uses machine learning to make decisions about power usage can reduce energy use by up to 60% without affecting computing performance in multi-core processors used in large servers around the world.  The innovation could…

The bright lights of big cities could be causing an evolutionary adaptation for smaller eyes in some birds, a new study indicates. Researchers found that two common songbirds, the Northern Cardinal and Carolina Wren, that live year-round…

A new public database built from the ground up by Washington State University undergraduates looks to expedite scientific understanding of how skin heals.The website — skinregeneration.org — was created for researchers but allows anyone…

Human communities across the globe have a long history of generating effective solutions to climate change, and many of these often-little-known cultural adaptations could prove useful today.  That’s according to a new special issue of…

Elk treponeme-associated hoof disease, previously thought to be limited to deformations in elks’ hooves, appears to create molecular changes throughout the animal’s system, according to epigenetic research from Washington State…

Regents professor Don Dillman, an internationally renowned survey methodologist, recently received the 2023 European Survey Research Association (ESRA) Outstanding Service Award in recognition of his sustained, high-level contributions to…

A $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help Washington State University researchers determine if new drugs used to treat COVID-19 may be linked to hearing loss.  There are no reports of COVID-19 medications…

The Potato Leadership, Education, and Advancement Foundation (Potato LEAF) announced Jacob Meeuwsen, a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, as the recipient of the organization’s 2023-24 Academic Scholarship. The $10,000…

For five years, Doug Walsh helped decide which scientists joined the ranks of the prestigious Fellows of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). Now, the Washington State University professor has officially been named among those he…