Horticulture doctoral student, Margaret McCoy, conducts most of her research at the WSU IAREC Center in Prosser, Wash. Margaret McCoy (‘20) has been awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and…
If you’ve ever had a red wine that smelled “off,” like gym socks, Band-Aids, or farmyards, then you’ve likely encountered a wine affected by Brettanomyces bruxellensis(“Brett” for short)—a barrel-dwelling spoilage yeast that can taint the…
Bernadette Gagnier was at a crossroads after leaving the Marines Corps. Now she’s a first generation college student studying Viticulture & Enology at WSU.
Although the northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) is the most prevalent plant-parasitic roundworm species in Washington vineyards, not much is known about how to effectively manage the pest. But Katherine East, a WSU post-doctoral researcher…
Until now, wine grape growers have essentially irrigated their crops based on the color of the wine they were making, watering one way for white wine grapes, and another for red grapes. Although manageable, the…
When Madeleine Higgins was trying to pay the rent in New York as a struggling fashion writer, she never dreamed that one day she would be interning in a custom-crush facility in Walla Walla, Wash.,…