Undergraduate Research

WSU student Rowena Gonzalez used fermented tea and the film it produces to create an alternative, sustainable material for apparel, and made a purse from kombucha.

A new grant will allow undergraduate students from WSU and partner institutions in eastern Washington and norther Idaho to get real-world agricultural research experience.

Significant grant will delivering much-needed space and equipment for hands-on student learning at WSU’s Wine

Sammy Perone, Human Development professor and director of the WSU Childhood Cognition Laboratory, enjoys working with undergraduate researchers like Jenna Cavena in his lab.

Mackenzie Selleg was honored as the 2017 CAHNRS Family and Consumer Scientist.

Six Pack of WSU Students Team Up to Make Premium Wines A handful of juniors and seniors majoring in viticulture and enology at WSU Tri-Cities are engaged in a winemaking project that takes them from the vineyard to the winery and beyond. Their capstone course involves every aspect of the winemaking process, said Thomas Henick-Kling, […]

WSU’s AgWeatherNet Team Tests State-of-the-Art Weather Prediction Model for Freeze Events Washington tree fruit growers are often at the mercy of Mother Nature when it comes to weather. Case in point: the severe thunderstorms of July 20 that, in some areas of south-central Washington, battered apple crops with golf ball-sized hail, leaving some orchards with […]

Eighteen-year-old Sequoia Leuba was already a seasoned researcher when she came to work this summer in the lab of WSU horticultural genomicist Amit Dhingra. In ninth grade, while her peers were just starting to classify the unseen world of microbes, Leuba was conducting research at a University of Pittsburgh microbiology lab.

Flight of the Alkali Bee Can a bee learn to fly over, instead of across, a busy highway? WSU entomologist Douglas Walsh is working with the Washington State Department of Transportation to find out. Walsh will study alkali bees and their flight around a stretch of U.S. Highway 12 in central Washington to help WSDOT […]

Over 34,000 trees were identified, mapped, and tagged in one of the largest studies conducted to date of the importance of big trees in temperate forests. Trees three feet in diameter and larger comprise nearly half the biomass accounted for at a Yosemite National Park site but represented only one percent of the trees in […]