NSF MRI: Recent WSU Awardees

WSU researchers from a variety of fields have won awards under the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. The following list is provided to give prospective applicants a sense of the kinds of projects that have been supported at WSU under the program in the past decade.

Principal InvestigatorStart YearProject TitleAmount Awarded
Aurora Clark2022Acquisition of a GPU Cluster to Advance the Land Grant Mission at Washington State University Using AI-Driven Research$450,000
Hans-Henning Kunz2018Acquisition of a Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometer to Enable Ultra-Trace Element Analysis at Washington State University$125,861
Jeffrey Vervoort2016Acquisition of a laser-ablation, multi-collector ICP-MS for research and training in Earth, Environmental, and Anthropological Sciences$596,778
Brian Collins2016Development of Environmental Control for Resonant X-ray Scattering on Organic Samples$509,939
Christian Mailhiot2015Acquisition of an Integrated Data-Assisted Research and Training Scalable Storage System (IDARTs3) at Washington State University$360,000