Alumni

Winery owners donate hand sanitizer to WSU Tri-Cities campus to help keep students, faculty, and staff safe.

Grad explores personal growth, carbon’s role deep in soil

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By Maya Wahl, CAHNRS Academic Programs CAHNRS takes pride in its alumni and strives to keep our graduates a part of the Coug family that they built while they were on campus. There are teachers, winemakers, farmers and ranchers, product developers, social workers, geneticists, and the list goes on. Some CAHNRS graduates go on to […]

WSU recently honored alum and former professor Thomas Lumpkin with the Alumni Achievement Award for his career working to end global hunger and malnutrition.

Randy Suess, area wheat farmer and advocate for WSU agriculture research and extension, received the WSU Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award in recognition of his support of local and global wheat partnerships and of ag and community programs throughout the region.

Classes, internships and study abroad through WSU Tri-Cities has taken Colin Hickey around the world to land in his dream job – assistant winemaker at the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center.

Robb Zimmel, B.S. ’14, created 500 cases of wine in four varietals including a Riesling, Chardonnay, Merlot and Malbec. They will be available for purchase this summer from his winery Zimmel Unruh Cellars.

New Winemaker Hits the Ground Running with WSU Online Enology Certificate Program How does a liberal arts major, fresh out of college and with little wine experience, hit the ground running in the wine industry? By apprenticing with seasoned winemakers, by hiring consultants, and by taking Washington State University’s online enology certificate program, an experience […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – When the first irrigation water from the Columbia Basin Reclamation Project flowed through the sage brush of Quincy, Keith F. Kirkbride was there launching a program at the high school to educate the area’s future farmers. Now, Kirkbride’s sons, Frank and Charlie Kirkbride, are launching a scholarship program at Washington State University […]