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2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award – Congratulations!

May 9, 2019  |  Pullman, WA The team of Qin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Long He, Yaqoob Majeed, Matthew D. Whiting and Manoj Karkee have been selected to receive a 2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award. This group will be honored at the General Session Recognition Program during the ASABE Annual International Meeting on July 8th, 2019 […]

2019 PSIFT Student Achievement Awards

May 7, 2019  |  Seattle, WA 2019 Student Achievement Awards for the Puget Sound Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (PSIFT). Awards were presented to BSE graduate students at the annual meeting for the Puget Sound IFT on May 7, 2009 at Elliot Bay Public House and Brewery (Seattle, WA). Awards were given in […]

Indonesian Fulbright Scholar studying biofuels at WSU Tri-Cities, PNNL

Apr 9, 2019 |  WSU Insider Fulbright scholar Fitria is using her educational experience at Washington State University Tri-Cities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to find new and improved ways of creating successful biofuels and bioproducts. In her home country of Indonesia, Fitria, who goes by one name, is a team member and former project […]

Spray Researchers Aim to Catch Their Drift

February 15, 2019  |  Good Fruit Grower Against the gray, late-autumn sky, it’s hard to miss the green plume spraying into the dormant orchard. It’s a very colorful solution to a nearly invisible problem. Underlying every pesticide label regulation lie complex calculations of risk to protect workers, bystanders and the environment from drift. But the […]

BSE Graduate Students win Best Graduate Poster Award at the 2019 BioAg Symposium

February 7, 2019  |  Pullman, WA BSE graduate students in the Agricultural Automation Engineering  research area Haitham Bahlol and Rajeev Sinha presented their work on “Horticultural oil thermotherapy for pear psyllid management”. During the event, Rajeev Sinha spoke to CAHNRS Dean Wright at the 2019 BioAg Symposium Their poster was awarded the ‘Best Graduate Poster Award’ with […]

Online publication labels professor as AI trailblazer

January 18, 2019  |  The Daily Evergreen The online magazine “Connected World” recognized a WSU associate professor as one of the 2019 artificial intelligence pioneers. Manoj Karkee, a biological systems engineering associate professor, said the magazine chooses its pioneers based on their use of artificial intelligence, data analytics and technology around the world. “Other scientists […]

Lav Khot Named New Innovator in Food and Agriculture

January 15, 2019  |  CAHNRS News PROSSER – WSU’s Lav Khot will look to reduce reliance on broad spectrum pesticides that result in residues on food with an award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). Khot and his collaborators received one of FFAR’s New Investigator awards for 2018, which includes a 3-year, […]

BSE Faculty Bin Yang Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award

January 7, 2019  |  WSU Insider By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities Bin Yang, a professor of biological systems engineering at Washington State University Tri‑Cities, has been selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award — the most prestigious appointment in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Fulbright currently awards approximately 8,000 grants annually. Of those, 40 are selected […]

BSE Faculty Manoj Karkee Named 2019 Pioneer in AI and IoT

December 4, 2018  |  Connected World Magazine   |  Carol Stream, Ill. Manoj Karkee, a professor in the Agricultural Automation Engineering specialty area of Biological Systems Engineering has been selected as a 2019 Pioneers in AI and IoT by Connected World magazine. The Pioneers in AI and IoT awards highlight the humane, uplifting, and powerful stories of the IoT (Internet […]