Leadership and service in agricultural education and research Rich Koenig, associate dean for the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and director of WSU Extension, has been honored as one of 14 soil scientists in the U.S. to be named as a 2013 Fellow for the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA). […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Rich Koenig, associate dean for the WSU College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and director of WSU Extension, has been honored as one of 14 soil scientists in the U.S. to be named as a 2013 Fellow for the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA).
PROSSER, Wash.– Although the calendar said September, the stormy weather at the end of last month looked more like November or December.
Proposals to mentor student interns due Oct. 7 CAHNRS Academic Programs, the Agricultural Research Center, and Extension have pooled funding resources to create opportunities for 40 CAHNRS undergraduate students to gain positive immersion-based teaching, research, or extension experience. Mentored internships will be offered during the spring or summer of 2014 with CAHNRS faculty located throughout the WSU […]
New Electric Tongue Evaluates Washington Wines An “electronic tongue” at Washington State University is hard-wired to taste wines in a way that human tongues cannot. Unlike human taste buds, this so-called “e-tongue” never tires or takes a day off, even after hours of around-the-clock sampling, said Carolyn Ross, associate professor of food science and viticulture […]
Monarchs Take Flight When a young girl named Rosie found a Monarch butterfly resting on the garage door of her house in Bolinas, California, last year, she noticed it had a small, white tag on its wing with a WSU e-mail address and identification number. She sent a message to WSU entomologist David James, and […]
Keeping Seafood Safe Ellen Preece wants to know if microcystins, liver-damaging toxins produced by algal blooms in freshwater lakes, accumulate in Puget Sound seafood. She’s not the only one who wants to know. Preece, a doctoral student in the School of Environment, is helping the Washington Department of Health determine whether seafood accumulates enough microsystins […]
SPOKANE, Wash. — For healthy forests, every acre matters, and that’s why forestry experts at WSU are offering funding and educational workshops to help eastern Washington residents sustain small forests that are less susceptible to fire, insects, and disease.