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Solve environmental problems
through science and engineering.

Work side by side with world-renowned faculty to use your background in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics to explore solutions to environmental problems. The keystone of the interdisciplinary environmental research at Washington State University is the Center for Multiphase Environmental Research, which unites the work of several departments in cooperative research.

In this highly interdisciplinary program, you pursue your graduate degree in one of several participating departments, and have the opportunity to draw knowledge from various disciplines as you build a research program tailored to your interests and career goals.

Shulin Chen and a graduate student discuss a watershed health project

Tapping latent bioenergy

The research of Shulin Chen, who is developing innovative ways to reuse and detoxify organic waste, may help the agriculture industry reduce pollution and increase profits while producing environmentally sustainable energy. Read More

A soybean plant in the lab sits under a growing-light

Measuring greenhouse gases

A few simple soybean plants may help solve a big question in the debate over global warming and climate change. A team of professors and graduate students at WSU is using soybean plants and a poplar plantation to test a new method that will more accurately measure the exchange of carbon between the earth's atmosphere and biosphere. Read More

   

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 Center for
   Multiphase

   Environmental

   Research

Key to the success of this program is the Center for Multiphase Environmental Research. The center unites doctoral students from a variety of departments to address threats to the water, air, and earth. As part of this program, you will work in teams to transfer your own innovations to industry for application and commercialization.

By tackling regional, national, and even international problems in a cooperative framework, you will emerge with the deep knowledge and real-world experience required to remedy environmental ills.

   
                             
 


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