By Kate Wilhite, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University plant pathology professor Hanu Pappu has been selected as a Fulbright specialist. He will organize laboratory workshops and provide training for faculty, staff and graduate students at Urgench State University in Uzbekistan this fall.
PULLMAN, Wash. – A new educational and outreach website has launched to provide information to scientists, growers and industry about genome databases for citrus, tree fruit and berry crops.
By Joshua Paulsen, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University is launching an online master’s degree to meet the growing need for highly skilled field practitioners and managers in today’s technologically advanced agricultural industry. The program begins this fall and is accepting applications.
By Tina Hilding, College of Engineering & Architecture YAKIMA, Wash. – A new Washington State University study has found that a combination of agricultural emissions, human-based activity – like running car engines and burning woodstoves – and cold, still winter nights adds up to poorer air quality in the Yakima Valley than in much of […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Afghanistan is working to rebuild its culture, economy and institutions – and a brighter future – by increasing its capacity to deliver extension programs at the local level. Washington State University is part of a consortium of leading land grant universities assisting the effort.
By Jane Payumo, Office of International Programs PULLMAN, Wash. – WSU faculty will train the next generation of leaders in new research and laboratory techniques when the university hosts five international scientists awarded Norman Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowships.
By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – An alien pest that smells like dirty socks and devours crops might become Washington state agriculture’s Public Enemy No. 1 in less than five years, government and university researchers are warning.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Keiko Tuttle believes the biggest challenge agriculture will face in the next five years centers around a food source that makes up 70 percent of the human diet: cereal grains.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Scientist Hanu Pappu recently was honored for his scholarship and international stature in agricultural research with an award that facilitates travel to India to interact and exchange ideas with researchers there.
PROSSER, Wash.- Only three words are needed to describe this summer in Washington state: hot, hotter and hottest. In Prosser, August ended with the hottest temperature since 1991, and the June to August period was the second warmest on record. “Low temperatures in August were the warmest on record as a result of […]