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CAHNRS 2024 Faculty Awards and Two Faculty Receive Fulbright Awards
Please join Dr. Garcia-Prez in congratulating Lav and Shyam for receiving CAHNRS college awards this year. Shyam Sablani is the recipient of the 2024 CAHNRS Faculty Excellence in Research Award Lav Khot is the recipient of the 2024 CAHNRS Early Career Excellence, he is also part of the team that received the 2024 Interdisciplinary Team Award […]
USDA undersecretary encounters research for specialty crops at Prosser
By Seth Truscott Scientists at WSU’s Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center (IAREC) at Prosser welcomed Jenny Lester Moffitt, USDA Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, alongside WSDA Director Derek Sandison and Wendy Powers, the Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean of CAHNRS, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. The undersecretary’s visit highlighted WSU research supported by USDA’s Specialty Crop Block Grant […]
Lav Khot and CAHNRS highlighted during NIFA’s National Washington Day – May 10, 2023
USDA | NIFA May 11, 2023 To celebrate National Washington Day on May 10, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is highlighting the innovative NIFA-funded research conducted by Lav Khot, CAHNRS and Washington State University (WSU). NIFA’s support allows CAHNRS to bring new ideas to light that improve our food supply, protect our […]
WSU’s Lav Khot, colleagues receive multi-state award for ag drone research
Lav Khot, associate professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, was honored by the for ongoing efforts to enhance the role of drones in agriculture. Khot and colleagues at more than 20 research institutions received the 2022 National Excellence in Multistate Research Award from the Experiment Station Section (ESS) unit of the commission’s Board on Agriculture […]
Mark Schrader places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
Jake Schrader ( PhD Student of Lav Khot, Agricultural Automation Engineering) is shown presenting in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition during the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Houston, Texas, 2022. Jake placed in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition within the Machinery Systems technical community for his work entitled,“Thermal analysis of heated spray and implications for agricultural spray […]
WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture
July 29, 2021 | WSU Insider WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture With a new $20 million federal grant, Washington State University will lead a multi-institutional research institute to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to tackle some of agriculture’s biggest challenges related to labor, water, weather and climate change. The new institute […]