WENATCHEE, Wash. – WSU Extension is offering a series of workshops designed for commercial growers interested in or currently growing the wildly popular Honeycrisp apple. In the 2013 Fruit School on “The Honeycrisp Experience: Production, Harvest and Storage,” participants will learn how to grow the tree and produce a crop that stores and eats well.
PROSSER, Wash. – Washington State University’s annual Cherry Field Day is coming up June 6. A full afternoon of research updates followed by an orchard tour are planned. A free lunch hosted by Wilson Orchard and Vineyard Supply begins at noon at the WSU Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (IAREC).
ARLINGTON, Wash. – Educators interested in learning how to incorporate environmental education into their curriculums should attend the Project Learning Tree training May 18, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Community Room, Arlington Boys and Girls Club, 18513 59th Ave NE, Arlington.
PULLMAN, Wash.—Steve Wratten, a professor of ecology with Lincoln University’s Bio-Protection Research Centre in New Zealand, will present the 2013 E. Paul Catts Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 26, in the Smith Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE), Room 202. The lecture, titled “Bees, Birds, Butterflies, Biological Control and the Future of Agriculture,” and […]
PULLMAN, Wash.—Local children and their parents can learn how fast a cockroach can race, pet a tarantula and more at an April 20 Insect Expo, sponsored by Washington State University’s Entomology Graduate Student Association. The event, set from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will take place in Ensminger Pavilion.
PULLMAN, Wash.—Cougar couture—from ski wear to red-carpet finery to repurposed garments made from tents, seeds and football jerseys—will take to the runway during Washington State University’s Mom’s Weekend in mid-April.
SEATTLE – What role does science play in the quality of wine? Thomas Henick-Kling, director of the Washington State University viticulture and enology program, explores this and other questions in “Science in Your Glass,” the WSU Innovators luncheon, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, April 4, at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle.
PULLMAN, Wash.—Students of Washington State University professor Richard Zack’s “Insects and People” course, as well as the public, will have a chance to put their gag reflex to the test during the annual insect-eating lunch from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 9, at Ensminger Pavilion. On the menu will be cricket chili, mealworm tacos and […]
WENATCHEE, Wash. – The Washington State University Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS) will present a free, public Technology Expo starting at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at the WSU Sunrise Orchard near Wenatchee. A free lunch will be provided by Wilson Irrigation, Orchard and Vineyard Supply.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Pulitzer Prize-winning author and biologist Bert Hölldobler will present a public lecture on “The Superorganism: Communication and Cooperation in Ant Societies” in the CUB Auditorium on the WSU Pullman campus at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 3. The lecture is intended for the general public, and is free to all. After a brief intermission, […]