PULLMAN, Wash. – Amazon Catalyst program has awarded $177,735 in grants to 10 Washington State University teams comprised of students, faculty and staff across disciplines and locations. The collaborative program between Amazon and WSU launched early in 2018 to fund projects deemed globally impactful and disruptive. What are the next inventions that will change how […]
The WSU team “BeeToxx” received multiple awards at the UW Business Plan Competition which was held May 25th, 2018. The team won the $7,520 “Friends of the BPC” Third Place Prize as well as the $5,000 Wells Fargo “Cleantech/Environmental” Prize. [ Read full story at UW Business School ]
Pictured from left: Poonam Bajaj, Ph.D.; Armando Quintanilla Perez Lete, Ph.D.; Shyam Sablani, Ph.D., Associate Professor; Momtanu Chakraborty, M.S.; Afef Marzougui, M.S.; Carlos Zuniga, Ph.D.; Sindhuja Sankaran, Ph.D., Assistant Professor; Kapil Khanal, M.S.; Abirami Rajendran, M.S.; Seyedehsanaz Jarolmasjed, Ph.D.
The WSU team “BeeToxx” received multiple awards at the WSU Business Plan Competition which was held April 20th, 2018. The team won Third Place in the College League as well as the Best Social Impact Business. [ See the full list of winners on the Business Plan Website ]
April 19, 2018 Chongyuan Zhang, a Graduate Assistant in Sindhuja Sankaran’s group received the 2018 Ann Chittenden Holland Master’s Thesis Award for Graduate Student Excellence at the 2018 WSU Graduate Student Evening of Excellence. Congratulations to Chongyuan and Dr. Sankaran for this accomplishment! More photos of the event can be found on the Event Photo Website
Congratulations to Dr. Joan Wu and Dr. Shyam Sablani who recently received 2018 CAHNRS Faculty Awards. Dr. Joan Wu – Excellence in Teaching Dr. Shyam Sablani – Excellence in Advising See @wsucahnrs post
April 13, 2018 | By Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Industry professionals have named Washington State University one of the 25 best colleges in the world for precision agriculture. At WSU, the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS) http://cpaas.wsu.edu and the Agricultural Technology and Production Management […]
April 10, 2018 | KREM 2, by Luke Morand Researchers have developed a new material that attracts pesticide residue in bees and, when ingested, the particles absorb the pesticide toxins. PULLMAN, Wash. — Researchers at Washington State University have developed a new material that could help save honey bees. It is all thanks to a microscopic particle […]
April 2018 Irrigation Today Unmanned aerial system technology has boomed in the last several years, so what are its useful applications for irrigation crops? [ read full article at modernpubsonline.com ]
Dr. Juming Tang, the Principal Investigator for the Center of Excellence for Food Safety, has received a $1M grant continuation for the grant’s second year from USDA NIFA. The four year, $4M grant, aims to accelerate technology transfer of microwave based food safety technologies by leveraging resources from the government, universities, and the food industry to […]