March 17, 2025
2022 Washington State American Junior Academy of Sciences Delegate wins prize at 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search
2022 AJAS delegate Kevin Shen of Olympia, WA took seventh place at the 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search, the U.S.’s oldest and most prestigious science and math competition for high school seniors. Shen was awarded $70,000 for building a custom flight computer to control a 3D-printed airplane with oblique wings.
February 21, 2019
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 […]
January 16, 2019
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society.
November 13, 2018
The four winners were selected from a group of eleven exceptional students across the state who were invited to apply for the award based on their performance in the 2017-18 state science fairs.
October 17, 2018
WSAS President Anjan Bose provides some highlights from the past year.
October 4, 2018
WSAS Board member David Eaton served as the Chair of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s recent report on “Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes”, published earlier this year. In the report Eaton and a committee of 12 other experts critically evaluated over 800 peer-reviewed papers that addressed one or more of the often-controversial aspects of e-cigarettes.
September 28, 2018
TVW coverage of the 11th Annual WSAS Symposium “The Highs and Lows of Conducting Research on Cannabis in Washington State” is now available to stream online. The Symposium running time is approximately 5 hours and TVW has split its coverage into four segments, which can be found below. […]
July 13, 2018
The Washington State Academy of Sciences (WSAS) is pleased to announce 29 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.
July 10, 2018
The selected students attended the 2018 AAAS meeting - whose theme was Advancing Science: Discovery to Application - and shared their application-based research proposals with the broader scientific community.
July 2, 2018
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation recognized Schwartz for his innovative and interdisciplinary programs recruiting Native American and other minority STEM scholars at the University of Washington as well as his role as the founding director of UW’s Clean Energy Institute.
