SEATTLE—Economic storm clouds seem to be brewing for the greater Seattle area, according to business executives surveyed here by Washington State University in the second quarter of this year. The average respondent reported less optimism than previous quarters for sales, financing and employment.
PULLMAN, Wash. – While some aspects of the Seattle economy are improving, others are getting more difficult, leaving the overall economic picture mixed and uncertain, according to Seattle business executives surveyed by Washington State University.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Business executives in the greater Seattle area were more optimistic during the second quarter of this year than they were the previous two quarters and predict the nation’s economic recession will end by mid-2010, according to a recent survey by Washington State University and the Seattle Executives Association. The survey is a […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The economic health of rural areas on both sides of the Pacific Rim is the focus of a new partnership between Washington State University’s School of Economic Sciences and the Korean Rural Economic Institute. Representatives from both organizations have signed a formal memorandum of understanding to create a teaching, research and extension […]
A student with the International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade (IMPACT) Center at Washington State University was awarded a fellowship from the Foley Institute. Lia Nogueira, a doctoral student, was awarded the Scott and Betty Lukins Fellowship from the Foley Institute for her strong academic performance, in addition to her determined dedication to […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The four million tons of wheat straw produced annually in the Pacific Northwest may have a new market thanks to a researcher with the International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade (IMPACT) Center at Washington State University. Dr. Marie-Pierre Laborie has designed a process to turn the otherwise wasted wheat straw […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – U.S. soldiers may enjoy field rations that look and taste better thanks to technology developed by researchers with the International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade Center at Washington State University. Juming Tang, IMPACT Center food technology fellow, and his team have received a U.S. patent for a newly developed, microwave […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University research on food processing techniques that could improve the quality of meals soldiers eat in the field was featured in the March 2007 edition of Food Engineering Magazine. The research, funded by WSU’s International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade (IMPACT) Center, was conducted by Juming Tang, IMPACT […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Gustavo Barbosa-Canovas, a Washington State University professor and International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade scientist, was elected as a Fellow for the Institute of Food Science and Technology Tuesday. Barbosa-Canovas is a professor of food engineering in the School of Biological Systems Engineering at WSU, where he teaches food processing […]
PULLMAN, Wash. Thomas I. Wahl, director of the International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) Center at Washington State University, has been named to the Washington State China Relations Council Board of Directors. Wahl’s extensive work with China’s agricultural industry through the IMPACT Center and WSU earned him a seat on the […]