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CAS Grant Awards

Grant awards for fiscal year 2025-26

CAS faculty are pushing the limits of knowledge and creativity through their original research and artistic endeavors. Grant-funded projects, such as those showcased here, underscore the impactful contributions our college is making to the world.

* Information is updated monthly by the GFS team with information provided by the Office of Research Support and Operations (ORSO).

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Date AwardedPrincipal InvestigatorUnitCampusSponsorProgramProject TitleAward Amt
2/25/2026Delgado, VanessaSociologyPullmanBorchard Foundation Center on Law and AgingAcademic Research GrantRetiring With(Out) Papers: How Legal Status Shapes the Retirement Plans of Older Latino/a Immigrants in Small Town America$20,000
2/17/2026Rudman, SethSchool of Biological SciencesVancouverWashington Blueberry CommissionBlueberry ResearchDevelopment of a Low-Cost, High-Throughput SWD Insecticide Resistance Screening Tool$18,800
2/8/2026Roley, SarahSchool of the EnvironmentTri-CitiesYakama Nation/US Department of CommerceYakima Nation MOA- Water Quality Monitoring$97,311
2/6/2026Rudman, SethSchool of Biological SciencesVancouverWashington Red Raspberry CommissionRed Raspberry ResearchGenomic tools for the identification and management of resistance in Spotted Wing Drosophila$17,300
2/4/2026Meidenbauer, KimberlyPsychologyPullmanUniversity of ChicagoInstitute for Climate & Sustainable GrowthThe Chicago Center for Environmental and Behavioral Change to Address Psychological Impacts of Heat Exposure$110,430
2/2/2026Piovia-Scott, JonahSchool of Biological SciencesVancouverWashington Department of Ecology/Environmental Protection AgencyMega-ToxicsNaturalization of urban infrastructure to protect fish and wildlife$55,335
1/9/2026Krishnamoorthy, Bala and Amber ThrallMathematics & StatisticsVancouverPacific Northwest National Laboratory - BattelleDistinguished Graduate Research ProgramDistinguished Graduate Researcher$166,387
12/16/2025Greer, Edward and Travis RidoutPPPAPullmanAmerican Political Science AssociationSummer Centennial Center Research GrantsWhat About Straight Pride? The Politics of Straightness and Threat Perception$2,500
11/21/2025Smith, Rachel and Erin ThorntonAnthropologyPullmanLambda AlphaGraduate Research GrantIsotopic Analysis of Highland and Lowland Oaxaca during the Late Classic and Early Postclassic$2,000
11/13/2025Shartau, RyanSchool of Biological SciencesPullmanUniversity of Texas Tyler/State of TexasTexas Endangered Species Management ResearchEnvironmental Tolerances and Habitat Association of Critically-imperiled Crayfish in Texas$35,718
10/31/2025Learn, RyanMathematics & StatisticsTri-CitiesWashington Research FoundationStudent Program Funding Opportunity WSU Tri-Cities Summer Research and Spring Break Intensive$96,644
10/19/2025Fladd, Samanatha and Emily Van AlstAnthropologyPullmanWenner-Gren FoundationConference and Workshop GrantComplementary and Contradictory: Women and Gender in Southwest Archaeology$19,790
10/10/2025Clowers, BrianChemistryPullmanNational Science FoundationDivision of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research ProgramsAdvancing Chemical Separations Through Multimodal Ion Chemistry and Tandem Ion Mobility Spectrometry$485,838
9/24/2025Thornton, ErinAnthropologyPullmanNational Science FoundationArchaeology Program Senior Research AwardsPre-Hispanic Turkey Rearing at Paquime: Implications for cultural interaction, and turkey domestication and diffusion$122,071
9/22/2025Skinner, MichaelSchool of Biological SciencesPullmanUniversity of Idaho/Pacific Lamprey Conservation InitiativeNational Fish Habitat PartnershipEpigenetics of Pacific Lamprey Sex and Maturation$87,430
9/15/2025Lee, VictoriaChemistryPullmanU.S. Department of Energy, University Nuclear Leadership ProgramNuclear Energy Graduate FellowshipsPorous Materials for Isotope Production: Labilization-Promoted Fast and Self-Separation$175,000
9/15/2025Andrade, EvelynChemistryPullmanU.S. Department of Energy, University Nuclear Leadership ProgramNuclear Energy Graduate FellowshipsUnderstanding f-block element species in molten halide salts: advancing nuclear energy options$175,000
9/11/2025Piovia-Scott, JonahSchool of Biological SciencesVancouverNational Science FoundationPartnership to Advance Conservation Science and PracticeCollaborative Research: Harnessing beaver-based restoration to conserve freshwater biodiversity across environmental gradients$531,217
8/22/2025Landis, Henry, and Jeremiah Busch, Eric RoalsonSchool of Biological SciencesPullmanAmerican Society of Plant TaxonomistsGraduate Student Research GrantsInvestigating the Contours of Introgression at Multiple Scales in Quercus (Fagaceae)$1,200
8/18/2025Sharma, AnjaliChemistryPullmanNational Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurologial Disorders and StrokesR01Targeted Nanotherapies for the Treatment of Brain Disorders$2,588,341
8/14/2025Bell, JeffreyChemistryPullmanNational Science FoundationDivision of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems - Electrochemical SystemsImproving the Performance of Aqueous Zinc-Based Batteries with Magnetic Fields$436,090
8/14/2025Cousins, AsaphSchool of Biological SciencesPullmanUS Department of Energy, Office of SciencePhysical Biosciences or Photosynthetic Systems ProgramsConference Support, 34th Western Photosynthesis Conference 2025$9,980
8/7/2025Canning, ElizabethPsychologyPullmanWissenschaftskolleg BerlinFellowsInstructors as Meaning-Makers: How Belief Systems Shape Growth Mindset Culture$23,000
8/7/2025Sharma, AnjaliChemistryPullmanNational Institutes of Health, National Eye InstituteR01Nanotherapies for Targeted Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization$2,642,466
7/30/2025Brokaw, Destiny and Eric RoalsonSchool of Biological SciencesPullmanThe Gesneriad SocietyElvin McDonald Research Endowment FundInvestigation into the Diversification of Hawaiian Cyrtandra$2,000
7/11/2025Franklin, RobertHistoryTri-CitiesBenton CountyHistoric Preservation GrantsHERitage: Archiving Women's Oral Histories in Benton County$15,830