PULLMAN, Wash. – A new Washington State University program has been charged with developing science-based tools to measure the sustainability of food production systems. The program, called “Measure to Manage: Food and Farm Diagnostics for Sustainability and Health,” or M2M, just received a three-year, $240,000 grant from the Clif Bar Family Foundation.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Two Washington State University wheat researchers are among just 18 scientists being named as American Society of Agronomy Fellows for 2012. Kim Kidwell and Kimberly Garland-Campbell will be recognized at the society’s annual meetings in Cincinnati next week.
Not too long ago I rewrote my will, bringing it up to date. There’s nothing like tackling a project like that to remind me of my mortality. But imagine not just your own individual death, but the finality of the death of all members of your species – that’s the idea behind what geologists and […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University officials will dedicate the new Eggert Family Organic Farm with a special ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the site of the new facility on the east edge of the Pullman campus off Airport Road.
Insect Flight Mill Research Returns Valuable Information for Pest Control The larvae of codling moth and obliquebanded leafroller can cause enormous damage to fruit crops. While scientists have expended a tremendous effort to find ways to control the eggs and larvae of these pests, relatively little is known about the actual moths — those flying […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Rich Koenig, soil scientist and department chair, is the new associate dean and director of Washington State University Extension.
Cougar Nation selects official WSU tartan The Cougar Nation has spoken – casting more than 34,000 votes – and as a result Washington State University has an official tartan. The winning design was unveiled during Homecoming week in the office of WSU President Elson S. Floyd. Students from the Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design and […]
The Fischer Agricultural Sciences Library may have closed last May, but WSU agricultural, students, faculty and staff are still well served by reference librarian Linda Crook. Crook has been working as a science reference librarian for over a decade — and she’s been fascinated by science for much longer than that.
John Kuhn spends the school year studying agricultural biotechnology in Pullman, but this past summer the Rosalia native moved to Mount Vernon to serve as an intern under Vegetable Seed Pathologist Lindsey du Toit at the Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center.
Cheryl Thonney’s summer internship at the WSU Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension (IAREC) would make most people shudder. Among other tasks for her adviser, extension coordinator specialist Holly Ferguson, Thonney counted thousands of fly maggots from calf bedding samples. But having worked around cattle her whole life, the WSU sophomore took the gruesome task in stride.
