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Estate gift

Hyde family’s $1.4 million gift helps student scientists share discoveries at Washington State University

May 18, 2018

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 […]

Prof. Rich Zack and Doctoral Student Megan Asche display insect specimens at a WSU specimen museum filled with cabinets, cases and vials.

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Today, it's an encounter with WSU forestry students learning to fight wildfire. Tomorrow, it might be a photo session with cheesemakers at the WSU Creamery or a field-day trip through experimental meadows at the university’s new Perennial Grass Breeding and Ecology Farm. For communicator and WSU alumnus Seth Truscott, the many facets of CAHNRS ensure that no two days are alike. A newspaper journalist and editor in a prior incarnation, he has brought the community and identity of the college to light through reports, blog posts, press releases, images, and other media since 2015.