It is with great sadness that we announce the tragic death of member Ann Nelson. Dr. Nelson was inducted to WSAS in 2012; the same year she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Nelson was a Professor of Physics at the University of Washington and is remembered by her department here. She [...]
On July 18, 2019, WSAS published its quarterly newsletter: Wildfire and other hot topics.
July 15, 2019 WSAS is pleased to announce announce two new Officers and five new Board Members who were elected by the WSAS Membership in June 2019. The newly elected Officers and Board Members will begin their terms after the Members' Meeting on September 12, 2019.
July 15, 2019 The Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) is delighted to announce 28 new members in recognition of their outstanding record of scientific and technical achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the Academy to bring the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington. New members will [...]
On April 18, 2019, WSAS published its quarterly newsletter. Read about how WSAS is making an impact in Olympia here. To subscribe to future newsletters, fill out the form below.
UPDATE: Applications are now closed. We are now accepting applications for our 2019 Summer Internship Program.
WSAS recently traveled to Washington, D.C., accompanying four, high-achieving, Washington high school students to the American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Conference to present their award-winning research to the attendees of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting. For the 2019 meeting, our corporate sponsors were Boeing and Vulcan - thank [...]
Dr. Jim Cook, co-founder of WSAS, was recently honored by WSU with an honorary doctorate "in recognition of over 40 years of research on soil borne pathogens and his service to WSU and the agricultural community of the Pacific Northwest." Dr. Cook is profiled in the most recent edition of the WSU Magazine (Spring 2019). [...]
January 22, 2019 On January 17, 2019, WSAS published its third quarterly newsletter. Read it here.
January 16, 2019 Subject: AAAS elects six new Fellows from Washington State The Washington State Academy of Sciences is pleased to share the news of the election of one of its members as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson (WSU, [...]
