Washington State University’s Tukey Orchard launches its annual pick-your-own cherry sale this week. This fun event starts Friday, July 20, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and continues on Saturday from 10 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Student Food Product Development Team Wins National Competition A food product development team from the Washington State University and University of Idaho School of Food Science won first place at a national competition sponsored by the Institute of Food Technology at the 2012 annual meeting in Las Vegas. The WSU/UI team’s challenge was to develop […]
I swim laps at noon several times a week. I enjoy the water, and the gentle exercise is good for my aging joints. Like other old ladies in the pool, I’m no speed demon. Even a bucketful of performance enhancing drugs would not make me slice through the water quickly. But like all the lap […]
MAYTOWN, Wash. – The next Family Forest Owners Field Day is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 18, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. near Maytown, Wash. The location is within driving distance of Thurston, Pierce, King, Lewis, Cowlitz, Pacific, Grays Harbor, Mason, and Kitsap counties, approximately 10 miles south of Olympia off I-5.
“I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream…. Ferdinand’s, That Is!” Two of the best things the Pacific Northwest has to offer – huckleberries and Ferdinand’s Ice Cream – together have made it into the finals in the Progressive Dairyman’s 2012 Flavor Faceoff. Ferdinand’s huckleberry ice cream beat out three different Idaho flavors […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – A slender, dark-haired woman in her forties shoulders a backpack loaded with dead fish and she hikes a long, rocky trail to a mountain stream in southern Idaho. Arriving on the bank, she drops the pack and starts winging fish carcasses into the water.
Today’s student experience is so much more than what happens in the classroom. One of our points of pride in CAHNRS is our outstanding student organizations such as Cougar Cattle Feeders, Cooperative University Dairy Students (or CUDS, winner for best acronym!), and the Horticulture Club. Students in each of these groups obtain real-world entrepreneurial experience […]
For the past two weeks, WSU has been participating in the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington DC. WSU, along with a handful of land-grant peers, was selected to have a display on the Mall just in front of the Smithsonian Castle. Our “Feed the World, Power the Planet” display featured on going biofuels and […]
WSU Organic Ag Education and Research Scores a Perfect 8 A recent assessment of educational and research programs in organic agriculture in the U.S. puts WSU in the top six schools in the nation. In fact, WSU outranks every other program in the country, because WSU is still the only university to offer a four-year, […]
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
—Confucius
Dr. Joan Ellis remembered the quote from the Chinese philosopher when revising the senior-level course AMT 440, Advanced Retail Management. Industry reps and AMDT alumni had indicated that students needed more management skills. Yet those skills couldn’t be learned passively from a class lecture alone.
