EFA News

Fledgling EFA Program Adds Members to its Ranks

By Amit Dhingra, Ph.D., Professor, and Chair, EFA The nearly three-year-old Entrepreneurial Faculty Ambassadors (EFA) Program at Washington State University has recently added students, staff, administrative leaders, postdocs and faculty to its ranks as the community continues to grow (https://efa.wsu.edu/efa-members/). The EFA members are a part of an advocacy group dedicated to promoting and supporting […]

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An Entrepreneurial Approach to Capstone: A Factory4U

About a year ago last February I had the privilege of being involved when WSU re-started active recruitment of regional top high-school students via a faculty call-a-thon. We faculty would call top high-schoolers considering college and we would answer any questions they had about WSU, their planned majors, or life in general on the Palouse. […]

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WSU Tri‑Cities prof receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities Bin Yang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering at Washington State University Tri‑Cities, has been selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award — the most prestigious appointment in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Fulbright currently awards approximately 8,000 grants annually. Of those, 40 are selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award. Yang marks the first […]

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The History of Innovation at WSU: Honoring the land grant mission by recognizing our innovators

Written by Brian Kraft, Assistant Vice President for Innovation and Research Engagement “The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.” -Abraham Lincoln WSU, as a land grant university, was founded on the principle that we can improve […]

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EFA Accomplishments in Year 1 — A Review

“We’ve established a tangible, direct connection between university faculty and the general public that is in-line with our Land-Grant mission.” ~Joe Harding, Professor of Physiology and founding EFA member. The Entrepreneurial Faculty Ambassadors (EFA) were established as a WSU Presidential Level Taskforce in the fall of 2017, following the ERIE report released in the spring […]

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