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New grant aims to reduce plastic taken from fields to landfills

October 6, 2022

WSU leads a new $8 million USDA-funded project aiming to advance soil-biodegradable plastic mulches and develop innovative methods for recycling the regular plastic mulch.

Strawberries growing in a field on plastic mulch.

Grad student wins fellowship to study buckwheat’s potential

February 11, 2022

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.

A woman in a field of plants with tiny white flowers.

WSU names new Mount Vernon headhouse for Ruth Wylie, groundbreaking alumna

January 27, 2021

New facility at WSU Mount Vernon named for pioneering WSU alumna, built with help from daughter

Nancy Kercheval and Ruth Wylie tour headhouse

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Today, it's an encounter with WSU forestry students learning to fight wildfire. Tomorrow, it might be a photo session with cheesemakers at the WSU Creamery or a field-day trip through experimental meadows at the university’s new Perennial Grass Breeding and Ecology Farm. For communicator and WSU alumnus Seth Truscott, the many facets of CAHNRS ensure that no two days are alike. A newspaper journalist and editor in a prior incarnation, he has brought the community and identity of the college to light through reports, blog posts, press releases, images, and other media since 2015.