Grants

WSU scientists will study different hemp varieties and do chemical analysis of them as part of a new $10 million USDA grant.

WSU’s Soil to Society project recently received a five-year, $10 million grant from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

WSU researcher s working on a completely new way to fight viral infections thanks to grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

WSU scientists join national effort to build a better, more sustainable mulch

WSU researchers and partners join the journey of pollination to get a clearer picture of colony health.

To help grow $800M crop, team studies ways to improve bee pollination.

Entomologists aim to take the sting out of stressful encounters

WSU’s Lav Khot will look to reduce reliance on broad spectrum pesticides that result in residues on food with an award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research.

By Sarah Appel, CAHNRS Academic Programs From the California town of Bishop, population 3,863, to the campus of Washington State University, and currently the hills of Ireland, Katie Doonan has found home and success within WSU’s Organic and Sustainable Agriculture major. Her most recent achievement–receiving the 2018 Future Organic Farmer Grant, worth $2,500, to help […]

With a market value of nearly a billion dollars, onions are the fifth most valuable vegetable produced in the U.S. But some farmers have been abandoning the crop due to losses from pests and disease—meaning fewer onions for consumers and a shrinking industry. Leading national efforts to save the onion industry from destructive pests and […]