Chemistry

The Advances in Immunology & Microbiology seminar series is a weekly forum that brings together scientists from diverse fields and disciplines across the College of Veterinary Medicine to discuss research advances in the broad areas of immunology, microbiology, infectious diseases, and global health. Seminars feature student speakers from the Immunology & Infectious Disease (IID) doctoral program, IID-affiliated postdoctoral researchers and faculty, intramural speakers from across the university, and extramural speakers.

Lithium battery research has seen a tremendous boon in the past decade due to strong demand in electrification of the transportation sector, which necessitates electrode materials of high energy density and electrolytes conducive to forming stable interfaces for ion transfer. Replacing graphite in LIB with silicon or lithium has been one route to improve energy density, the tradeoffs being low Columbic efficiency and interface stability with existing electrolytes, both of which are active areas of research and can be improved by developing novel electrolytes, which include high concentration electrolytes, electrolytes with functional additives, etc. I will discuss battery research I carried out so far focusing more on electrolyte and segue into future work.

David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities (CAH) is organizing a Grant Writing Workshop for graduate students. Dr. Becky James, Research and Development Manager of the Grants and Fellowship Support, College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Washington State University, will facilitate this workshop.
Dr. James will demonstrate how the graduate students can use Pivot-RP (a funding database) to search for funding opportunities and discuss the step-by-step process of Grant Writing. This event is meant for the students at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). However, graduate students from any discipline who are interested to learn about Pivot-RP and basics of grant writing are welcome to join.