{"id":1408,"date":"2024-08-07T15:53:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.wsu.edu\/gfs\/?page_id=1408"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:22:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:22:57","slug":"cas-grant-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cas.wsu.edu\/gfs\/cas-grant-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"CAS Grant Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grant awards for fiscal year 2025-26<\/h2>\n\n\n
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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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* Information is updated monthly by the GFS team<\/a> with information provided by the Office of Research Support and Operations (ORSO).<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n

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Date Awarded<\/th>Principal Investigator<\/th>Unit<\/th>Campus<\/th>Sponsor<\/th>Program<\/th>Project Title<\/th>Award Amt<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
3\/6\/2026<\/td>Crespi, Erica<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>University of Washington\/National Aeronautics & Space Administration<\/td>Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium - Affiliate Student Experience Grant<\/td>Space Grant Graduate Student Fellowships<\/td>$22,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3\/2\/2026<\/td>Spohnholz, Jesse<\/td>History<\/td>Pullman<\/td>Princeton University School of Historic Studies<\/td>Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship<\/td>Colonizing Germany in the Sixteenth Century<\/td>$14,609 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/25\/2026<\/td>Delgado, Vanessa<\/td>Sociology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging<\/td>Academic Research Grant<\/td>Retiring With(Out) Papers: How Legal Status Shapes the Retirement Plans of Older Latino\/a Immigrants in Small Town America<\/td>$20,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/17\/2026<\/td>Rudman, Seth<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>Washington Blueberry Commission<\/td>Blueberry Research<\/td>Development of a Low-Cost, High-Throughput SWD Insecticide Resistance Screening Tool<\/td>$18,800 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/8\/2026<\/td>Roley, Sarah<\/td>School of the Environment<\/td>Tri-Cities<\/td>Yakama Nation\/US Department of Commerce<\/td><\/td>Yakima Nation MOA- Water Quality Monitoring<\/td>$97,311 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/6\/2026<\/td>Rudman, Seth<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>Washington Red Raspberry Commission<\/td>Red Raspberry Research<\/td>Genomic tools for the identification and management of resistance in Spotted Wing Drosophila<\/td>$17,300 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/4\/2026<\/td>Meidenbauer, Kimberly<\/td>Psychology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>University of Chicago<\/td>Institute for Climate & Sustainable Growth<\/td>The Chicago Center for Environmental and Behavioral Change to Address Psychological Impacts of Heat Exposure<\/td>$110,430 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2\/2\/2026<\/td>Piovia-Scott, Jonah<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>Washington Department of Ecology\/Environmental Protection Agency<\/td>Mega-Toxics<\/td>Naturalization of urban infrastructure to protect fish and wildlife<\/td>$55,335 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1\/9\/2026<\/td>Krishnamoorthy, Bala and Amber Thrall<\/td>Mathematics & Statistics<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Battelle<\/td>Distinguished Graduate Research Program<\/td>Distinguished Graduate Researcher<\/td>$166,387 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/16\/2025<\/td>Greer, Edward and Travis Ridout<\/td>PPPA<\/td>Pullman<\/td>American Political Science Association<\/td>Summer Centennial Center Research Grants<\/td>What About Straight Pride? The Politics of Straightness and Threat Perception<\/td>$2,500 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/21\/2025<\/td>Smith, Rachel and Erin Thornton<\/td>Anthropology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>Lambda Alpha<\/td>Graduate Research Grant<\/td>Isotopic Analysis of Highland and Lowland Oaxaca during the Late Classic and Early Postclassic<\/td>$2,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/13\/2025<\/td>Shartau, Ryan<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>University of Texas Tyler\/State of Texas<\/td>Texas Endangered Species Management Research<\/td>Environmental Tolerances and Habitat Association of Critically-imperiled Crayfish in Texas<\/td>$35,718 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/31\/2025<\/td>Learn, Ryan<\/td>Mathematics & Statistics<\/td>Tri-Cities<\/td>Washington Research Foundation<\/td>Student Program Funding Opportunity<\/td> WSU Tri-Cities Summer Research and Spring Break Intensive<\/td>$96,644 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/19\/2025<\/td>Fladd, Samanatha and Emily Van Alst<\/td>Anthropology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>Wenner-Gren Foundation<\/td>Conference and Workshop Grant<\/td>Complementary and Contradictory: Women and Gender in Southwest Archaeology<\/td>$19,790 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/10\/2025<\/td>Clowers, Brian<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>National Science Foundation<\/td>Division of Chemistry: Disciplinary Research Programs<\/td>Advancing Chemical Separations Through Multimodal Ion Chemistry and Tandem Ion Mobility Spectrometry<\/td>$485,838 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/24\/2025<\/td>Thornton, Erin<\/td>Anthropology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>National Science Foundation<\/td>Archaeology Program Senior Research Awards<\/td>Pre-Hispanic Turkey Rearing at Paquime: Implications for cultural interaction, and turkey domestication and diffusion<\/td>$122,071 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/22\/2025<\/td>Skinner, Michael<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>University of Idaho\/Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative<\/td>National Fish Habitat Partnership<\/td>Epigenetics of Pacific Lamprey Sex and Maturation<\/td>$87,430 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/15\/2025<\/td>Lee, Victoria<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>U.S. Department of Energy, University Nuclear Leadership Program<\/td>Nuclear Energy Graduate Fellowships<\/td>Porous Materials for Isotope Production: Labilization-Promoted Fast and Self-Separation<\/td>$175,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/15\/2025<\/td>Andrade, Evelyn<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>U.S. Department of Energy, University Nuclear Leadership Program<\/td>Nuclear Energy Graduate Fellowships<\/td>Understanding f-block element species in molten halide salts: advancing nuclear energy options<\/td>$175,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9\/11\/2025<\/td>Piovia-Scott, Jonah<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Vancouver<\/td>National Science Foundation<\/td>Partnership to Advance Conservation Science and Practice<\/td>Collaborative Research: Harnessing beaver-based restoration to conserve freshwater biodiversity across environmental gradients<\/td>$531,217 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/22\/2025<\/td>Landis, Henry, and Jeremiah Busch, Eric Roalson<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>American Society of Plant Taxonomists<\/td>Graduate Student Research Grants<\/td>Investigating the Contours of Introgression at Multiple Scales in Quercus (Fagaceae)<\/td>$1,200 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/18\/2025<\/td>Sharma, Anjali<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurologial Disorders and Strokes<\/td>R01<\/td>Targeted Nanotherapies for the Treatment of Brain Disorders<\/td>$2,588,341 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/14\/2025<\/td>Bell, Jeffrey<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>National Science Foundation<\/td>Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems - Electrochemical Systems<\/td>Improving the Performance of Aqueous Zinc-Based Batteries with Magnetic Fields<\/td>$436,090 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/14\/2025<\/td>Cousins, Asaph<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>US Department of Energy, Office of Science<\/td>Physical Biosciences or Photosynthetic Systems Programs<\/td>Conference Support, 34th Western Photosynthesis Conference 2025<\/td>$9,980 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/7\/2025<\/td>Canning, Elizabeth<\/td>Psychology<\/td>Pullman<\/td>Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin<\/td>Fellows<\/td>Instructors as Meaning-Makers: How Belief Systems Shape Growth Mindset Culture<\/td>$23,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8\/7\/2025<\/td>Sharma, Anjali<\/td>Chemistry<\/td>Pullman<\/td>National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute<\/td>R01<\/td>Nanotherapies for Targeted Treatment of Corneal Neovascularization<\/td>$2,642,466 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/30\/2025<\/td>Brokaw, Destiny and Eric Roalson<\/td>School of Biological Sciences<\/td>Pullman<\/td>The Gesneriad Society<\/td>Elvin McDonald Research Endowment Fund<\/td>Investigation into the Diversification of Hawaiian Cyrtandra<\/td>$2,000 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7\/11\/2025<\/td>Franklin, Robert<\/td>History<\/td>Tri-Cities<\/td>Benton County<\/td>Historic Preservation Grants<\/td>HERitage: Archiving Women's Oral Histories in Benton County<\/td>$15,830 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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