Environment

Kevin Morris is helping reveal how we can change the way we use plastic in farming

Each week, we showcase one of our CAHNRS Ambassadors, a student leadership organization that encourages students to pursue higher education and serves as a liaison between the college and the greater community. This week, we’re featuring Lambert Ngenzi, a senior from Kent, Wash. What are you studying? I’m majoring in Environmental Science. Favorite Show/Movie: Welcome to Gondwana Favorite Cougar Tradition: […]

Each week, we showcase one of our CAHNRS Ambassadors, a student leadership organization that encourages students to pursue higher education and serves as a liaison between the college and the greater community. This week, we’re featuring Lambert Ngenzi, a junior from Kent, Wash. What are you studying? I’m majoring in Environmental and Ecosystem Sciences, with a minor in GIS. Why […]

BSE student’s work to cut greenhouse impact of manure took honors in poster contest

Dairy cows produce lots of manure. A WSU student’s research on cutting the environmental impact of all that waste won him second place in a poster competition at Seattle’s annual Waste to Worth conference.

EVERETT, Wash. – Washington State University Extension will offer Project Learning Tree Training for teachers and informal educators 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at the Snohomish County Extension office, 600 128th St. SE, Everett.

PULLMAN, Wash. – When the 3,800 Washington State University Extension Master Gardener volunteers celebrate the 39th anniversary of the program this spring, they’ll have the backing and support of Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire. She has proclaimed May 13 through May 19 as Washington State University Master Gardener Volunteer Week.

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University’s R. J. Cook Agronomy Farm in Pullman has been named one of just ten long-term agroecosystem research sites in the country by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “This designation is testimony to the quality of work being conducted by ARS and WSU to make agriculture more sustainable on all […]

WSU Plant Pathologist James Cook Wins Prestigious Wolf Prize James Cook, former dean of the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and emeritus professor of plant pathology and crop and soil sciences, will be awarded the Wolf Prize for Agriculture. The Wolf Prizes, awarded annually by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation, […]

PULLMAN, Wash.—Jude Capper, assistant professor of animal science at Washington State University, will conduct a free webinar titled “Environmentally Friendly Food Myths Debunked” at 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 5, at http://breeze.wsu.edu/r75006088/. It is part of WSU Extension’s webinar series, “Research that Works for You.”