PULLMAN – WSU professor emeritus and former dean of the College of Sciences, Robert A. Nilan, was presented the WSU Foundation’s Outstanding Service Award during the Foundation’s President’s Associates pre-game reception before the Cougars football game Oct. 10. As a volunteer, Nilan served on several development committees over the years, including the […]
PULLMAN – The College of Sciences at WSU is taking applications from top high school seniors for a new program called STARS (Students Targeted toward Advanced Research Studies). “This is an exciting program created for the best science students in Washington who are interested in a research career in the molecular biosciences,” said […]
PULLMAN — Thomas E. Rinderer, research geneticist and research leader with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Laboratory in Baton Rouge, La., will deliver two lectures during the 11th annual E. Paul Catts Memorial Lecture Series on March 22 and 23. Rinderer will speak on “Africanized Honey Bees in the Americas: […]
Improved apples, peaches, pears and cherries at market sooner. This is one benefit of research by WSU bioinformaticist Dorrie Main.Piece by piece, Main, an associate professor of horticulture and a scientist in the WSU Agricultural Research Center, is mapping the DNA mosaic of the rosaceous family. The family includes Washington’s largest crop–apples–and other tree fruit […]
Washington State University’s March 23 Philip C. Holland lecture has been canceled and, if possible, will be rescheduled at a later date. Organizers of the annual lecture said the cancellation was due to the illness of this year’s scheduled speaker, L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., known as the father of “genetic geography and history” and considered the […]
L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, M.D., known as the “father of genetic geography and history” and considered by many to be the world’s leading expert on human population genetics, will deliver the Holland Lecture at Washington State University. Titled “Genes, Culture and Human Evolution: A Synthesis,” the talk will present the culmination of Cavalli-Sforza’s research and thinking on […]
The 2004 Abelson Lecture at Washington State University will be given by geneticist Huntington F. Willard, director of the Duke University Genomics Institute. Willard is noted for tracing the genetic basis of human health and disease. His lecture “The Genome Revolution: Implications for Health and Society” is slated for 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 5 in […]
As Bassem Bejjani describes genetic research, it almost sounds easy: The beauty of genetic research is that it is simple building blocks, like Legos. Bejjani, research professor in the Health Research and Education Center at WSU Spokane, seeks to understand abnormalities in organ development and structure caused by genetic mutation. In particular, he conducts genetic […]