Food & Agriculture

The university’s newest apple variety, WA 64, is a sweet, tart, firmly crisp hybrid of Honeycrisp and Cripps Pink, a variety that includes the well-known Pink Lady®.

A new generation of WSU engineers will learn not only how to build better robots but also how to make them work better with, and for, humans — thanks in part to a $3 million NSF grant.

Without intervention, the colorful but devastating Japanese beetle could make its way across the evergreen state within two decades, according to a study of their potential dispersion.

Clay balls filled with native plant seeds and developed by WSU are helping revitalize prairies charred by last year’s wildfires.

The rare corpse flower housed at WSU Vancouver is blooming. Visitors can check it out and take a whiff of the flower’s pungent aroma from 8 a.m.–7 p.m. Friday, June 30.

The study abroad opportunity, with support from a U.S. State Department scholarship, is part of WSU’s Research Immersion in Nairobi program.

Longer tails have long given sheep producers across the globe problems — but a research project spearheaded by WSU graduate student Brietta Latham could eliminate the trait.

Jill McCluskey, director of WSU’s School of Economic Sciences, is now chair of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Many people have strong opinions on whether butter should be served chilled or at room temperature. WSU experts weigh in on the long-standing debate.

The new Large and Agricultural Animal Ambulatory Service offers preventative and general care for cattle, horses, camelids and other large mammals in a 60‑mile radius around WSU Pullman on weekdays.