Doctoral student, Lia Nogueira has been awarded the Scott and Betty Lukins Fellowship from the Foley Institute for her strong academic performance and dedication to public service. A student with WSU’s International Marketing Program for Agricultural Commodities & Trade (IMPACT) Center, Nogueira researches the effects of sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to trade on the Washington apple industry.
Mark Lange, assistant professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry, received an Arthur Neish Young Investigator Award from the Phytochemical Society of North America for studies on the regulation of biosynthesis of isoprenoids.
Entomology professor Walter S. “Steve” Sheppard has been named to the state Agriculture Department’s new advisory panel to recommend research on Washington’s honeybee industry amid concern over growing mortality in the hives. WSU has the only state-funded research program devoted to bees in the Pacific Northwest.
