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CAHNRS News – November 30, 2012

CAHNRS Advising, Extension, Research, Staff, Teaching, and Team Awards Please consider acknowledging those among us who have made extraordinary efforts to contribute to the CAHNRS experience. The deadline for nominations to the CAHNRS Advising, Extension, Research, Staff, Teaching, and Team Awards is Thursday, December 6. See details at http://bit.ly/SPrvXf. The Annual CAHNRS/WSU Extension Holiday Gathering Pam and […]

Cooking Local, Gift Farm, Genetic Diversity, Water

Celebrating 20 Years of Science-based Solutions for Sustainability From compost trials in orchards in the early ’90s to recent research on bean varieties and microbial inoculates that sustain agriculture in Africa’s ancient soils, WSU’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources has been on the cutting edge of science in the service of a sustainable […]

Algae, Probiotics, Water, Insects

WSU Professor Receives Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Grant WSU professor of biological systems engineering Shulin Chen is a Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) winner. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chen will pursue a progressive global health research project titled “Micronutrient fortification to improve infants’ development with a low-cost technology.” “This is an […]

Design students envision resilient futures for Lower Snake River

PULLMAN, Wash. – Landscape architecture and architecture graduate students from Washington State University’s School of Design and Construction will present their visions for the Lewiston, Idaho waterfront and the Lower Snake River Basin Dec. 6-Jan. 31 at Cafe Sage in Lewiston. The free, public exhibit, called “Alternating Currents,” opens with a reception at 6 p.m. Thursday, […]

Center marks two decades of science serving sustainable future

PULLMAN, Wash. – From compost trials in orchards in the early 1990s to recent research on sustaining agriculture in Africa’s ancient soils, Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources has been on the cutting edge of science in the service of a sustainable future for 20 years. This science in action will […]

Adapt to climate change rather than trying to eliminate it, challenges WSU author in new book published by Prometheus Books

PULLMAN, Wash. – New York publisher Prometheus Books has just released “The Whole Story of Climate: What Science Reveals about the Nature of Endless Change” by Washington State University faculty member E. Kirsten Peters. The book challenges the idea that we must spend all our effort in attempts to somehow eliminate climate change. Instead, Peters […]

Progress in Breast Cancer Research

I have an elderly aunt who was diagnosed with breast cancer many years ago. She was treated and remained cancer-free for years. But I also had a next-door neighbor who got the same diagnosis. She was treated, but succumbed to the disease not too long after. My experience is not unique. Those of us who […]

CAHNRS News – November 16, 2012

CAHNRS News – November 16, 2012 Who is this Mysterious Man? We already know that the man on the right is Clarence (aka Bud) Ryan, the renowned plant microbiologist who transformed our understanding of plant defense mechanisms. But who is the man with him? And why are they studying these plants? And what are the instruments on […]