Tom Asaki - Associate Professor Tom Asaki received the WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Fall 2011 Award of Excellence for "Faculty Advisor."
Jake Baertlein - Math major Jake Baertlein has received two awards from WSU Athletics - a "Senior Excellence in Academics Award" and a "PAC-12 Postgraduate Scholarship." Jake has been a WSU track athelete with a 3.8 gpa who will pursue a master's degree in teaching at Portland State University.
Oliver Yibing Chen - Graduate student Oliver Yibing Chen received a WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Award for Excellence as a TA for Spring 2012.
Daryl DeFord - Math major Daryl DeFord received the Norma C. Fuentes and Gary M. Kirk Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research, which is an award from members of the University College campaign steering committee honoring the best SURCA participant in Showcase 2012. He also received the SURCA Crimson Award for his research poster in the category of "Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Information Sciences."
Marc Evans - Professor Marc Evans received the College of Sciences Tom Lutz Teaching Award for 2012.
Kat Valenzuela - Graduate student Kat Valenzuela received a WSU Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Award for Excellence as a TA for Spring 2012.
Mark Schumaker - Associate Professor Mark Schumaker will visit the laboratory of David M. Kramer at Michigan State University. Dr. Kramer is the Hannah Distinguished Professor in Photosynthesis and Bioenergetics at the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory. He will work with Dr. Kramer and his colleagues to construct computer models of components of the electron transport pathway of photosynthesis. This pathway transduces the energy of sunlight into useful forms of chemical energy. It is also related to the mitochondrial electron transport pathway in both animals and plants, which helps to break down products of sugar molecules and convert them into useful forms of chemical energy.