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April 30: Outdoor science activities planned for all ages

PULLMAN, Wash. – Bird banding, plant identification and wild yeast collection for home bakers and brewers are some of the activities that will be hosted free to the public at the fourth annual Outdoor Fun Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 30, at Virgil Phillips Farm, five miles north of Moscow, Idaho, on Highway 95.

Students win catalysis society awards

By Ethan Nash, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture intern PULLMAN, Wash. – Fanglin Che, Yan Li and Rebecca Baylon, graduate students in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, have received the North American Catalysis Society’s Richard J. Kokes Award.

Spud research lands WSU grad student $10,000

  Mr. Potato Head celebrates with Rhett Spear, a Ph.D. horticulture student at Washington State University, who landed a $10,000 scholarship for his research on potatoes. Photo by Shelly Hanks, WSU Photo Services.   PULLMAN, Wash. – When Rhett Spear first saw the message emailed to him from Washington, D.C., he figured it was a […]

Research furthers food security, sovereignty

Photo of Amber Heckelman by Laura Evancich, WSU Vancouver. VANCOUVER, Wash. – Amber Heckelman, a doctoral student of environmental science at Washington State University Vancouver, has won the 2013-2014 Bullitt Foundation Environmental Fellowship worth $100,000 for research that centers on alleviating the suffering of Philippine peasants by restoring food security and sovereignty. Awarded annually since […]