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Multiple groups working together to bring healthy, locally-sourced fish to food banks around the Olympic Peninsula during the COVID-19 pandemic.

WSU’s Honey Bee & Pollinator Research & Education program has a new permanent home with pending purchase of facility near Othello, Wash.

Retired beekeeper Eric Olson made another donation to support the WSU honey bee research program to Dean Wright, Provost Bernardo, and others.

WSU alumni & raspberry farmers Adam and Julie Enfield joined WSU dignitaries like CAHNRS Dean Wright to present a $1.5 million check for the endowed chair.

Washington State University President Kirk Schulz announced today that the estate of James and Marilyn Oliver Hyde has gifted $1.4 million to support students in the Department of Entomology at WSU’s College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences. The largest onetime contribution ever designated for WSU insect education and research, the gift is the […]

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PULLMAN, Wash. — With an eye on the importance of research to its future, the Washington Turfgrass Seed Commission will fund the endowed professor position in turfgrass management at Washington State University. WSU received a gift of nearly $300,000 from the commission to establish the turfgrass professorship. The gift gives WSU the opportunity to hire […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – The Organic Center, a national non-profit organization supporting research and education on the consumer and environmental health benefits of organic food and farming, has donated another $30,000 to support organic agriculture research and programming at Washington State University. This latest donation brings the total in gifts and grants to WSU from the […]

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University scientists and Pacific Northwest beekeepers are joining forces to find out what is causing the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder that has wiped out thousands of hives throughout the region over the past several years. Two large beekeepers in the Pacific Northwest – Eric Olson of Yakima and Tom Hamilton […]

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Hideo Takahashi first came to the Skagit Valley more than a quarter century ago to be an intern at the Alf Christianson Seed Co. As a young employee of Sakata Seed, he spent a year in the Mount Vernon area working on a joint venture breeding project for spinach in the […]