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Licensing agreement will improve chemical detection

A new licensing partnership between Washington State University and Excellims Corp. will improve chemical detection tools used to identify everything from dangerous chemicals to human disease.

Herbert Hill
Herbert Hill

“I am very happy to see our research achievements being implemented into a commercial instrument,” said Herbert Hill, a WSU Regents professor in chemistry who developed the licensed technology. “This will allow researchers in a variety of academic research and industrial research fields to have a more powerful tool based on ion mobility spectrometry.”

Ching Wu, president and CEO of Excellims, is a former student of Hill. Wu graduated from WSU in 1997 and launched Excellims in 2005. » More …

Study of police officers finds fatigue impacts tactical social interaction

Results lay foundation for addressing impact of shift work-related fatigue on officer-public interaction

Bryan Vila
Bryan Vila

A new study led by a WSU professor found that fatigue associated with shift work influences how officers interact day-to-day during encounters with the public, which can either build or erode trust in the police.

Results show that experienced police patrol officers who worked day shifts were significantly more likely to manage simulated encounters with the public in ways that resulted in full-on cooperation—and significantly less likely to have encounters escalate into violence—when compared with officers working the other three shifts. » More …

Dillman named associate of National Research Council

Don Dillman, sociology, SESRC
Don Dillman

Don Dillman, Regent’s professor in sociology and deputy director for research and development for the Social and Economic Sciences Research Center (SESRC) at WSU, has been named a national associate of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

The honor recognizes Dillman’s service to the academies, which frequently advise government and the public on scientific, engineering, and health matters. » More …

What Makes Donald Trump Such A Cranky Baby?

Maybe Donald Trump acts childish because no one tells him he needs to go to bed.

Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, brags about how little sleep he gets.

Paul Whitney
Paul Whitney

“Lack of sleep often affects mood in substantial ways,” Paul Whitney, professor of psychology at WSU, told HuffPost. “There is evidence that lack of sleep decreases the ability to regulate emotion, so sleep-deprived individuals may experience greater emotional reactivity and impulsivity.”

Whitney, who with colleagues has conducted research on the effects of sleep deprivation, explained that lack of sleep profoundly affects tasks that require quick decisions based on feedback from previous tasks. » More …

WSU Enters Worldwide, Exclusive License Agreement for Advanced Ion Mobility Spectrometry–Mass Spectrometry Tech

Herbert Hill
Herbert Hill

Excellims Corporation (Excellims), a leading provider of high performance ion mobility spectrometers (HPIMS), announced that the company has entered into an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Washington State University for a new instrumental method to interface an Ambient Pressure Ion Mobility Spectrometer (APIMS) to a Mass Spectrometer (MS). This new agreement is an expansion of an existing patent licensing agreement between Excellims and WSU. Developed in the laboratory of Dr. Herbert H. Hill Jr., a Regents Professor of chemistry at WSU who has been a leading researcher in the IMS field for 45 years, the new technology will significantly improve the ion transmission into the MS, potentially overcoming sensitivity challenges when interfacing APIMS to MS. » More …