Grad student wins fellowship to study buckwheat’s potential
WSU Ph.D. candidate Rachel Breslauer received a $120,000 USDA pre-doctoral fellowship to study buckwheat as a cash crop as well as a cover crop.
Graduate students
WSU graduate student wins Science Coalition student video challenge
WSU student Molly McIlquham took first place in the graduate student category of The Science Coalition’s Fund It Forward Student Video Challenge.
WSU grad students receive national honor
Two WSU graduate students named Borlaug Scholars, a prestigious program run by the National Association of Plant Breeders.
WSU students named finalists in NFL data competition
Two WSU graduate students are finalists in an NFL data competition that looked at over 23,000 football plays over two seasons.
Two weeks fighting to solve global food security
When it comes to complex problems, solving global food security ranks high on any list. With a changing global climate, shifting politics, warfare, and economic problems, there is no silver bullet to make safe, healthy food available to everyone on Earth. But at the Borlaug Summer Institute on Global Food Security, they’re asking graduate students […]
Student’s intellect, drive result in scholarships and grants
Ph.D. viticulture student earned a national scholarship for his interdisciplinary research that aims to save water for the grape-growing industry.
Voracious pest leads to award winning research
Entomology graduate student Adekunle Adesanya’s research on spider mites has led to a prestigious award and industry appreciation.
Opportunities that soar: Biological Systems Engineering earns top ranking
They’re piloting drones over Washington vineyards, turning wood waste into jet fuel, and deploying thermal cameras to breed crops that resist drought. Their ideas launch businesses, transform agriculture and help feed a growing planet. That’s why U.S. News and World Report recognized the WSU Biological Systems Engineering (BSE) program, ranking it 14th in the nation […]
Into the Alaskan wilderness to help coastal bears
WSU graduate student Joy Erlenbach is spending her summer in Alaska’s Katmai National Park on a bear research project. Read her account of the work she’s doing.
Student works to boost renewable energy in Philippines
In the Philippines, as much as 15 percent of households do not have electricity. Elmar Villota, a doctoral student in biological systems engineering at WSU Tri-Cities and native of the Philippines, wants to close that gap with renewable energy.
