Two faculty members in the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) have been awarded Washington Research Foundation (WRF) grant funding supporting biosciences innovation and student research and training. This is the first time Seattle University has received WRF funding.
The grant will fund two new programs—a Summer Innovation Fellows program and a Summer Bioscience Innovation Mini-Accelerator Program in conjunction with the Albers School of Business and Economics Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center—and enable 38 SU undergraduate students to engage in paid innovative research, most of which begins in the summer. The end game is research that accelerates technologies that can improve lives and help guide students into careers in related STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.