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Cellulosic Revelation

Sept 2017  | BIOFUELS JOURNAL Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington have discovered that newly combined spectroscopy processes can reveal the differences between the inside and the outside of the molecular structure of cellulosic biomass. [ view pdf of article in Biofuels Journal] [ view digital magazine – requires Flash ]  

CSANR, BSE researchers seek sites to grow tomorrow’s produce

Thanks to a changing climate, production of fruits and vegetables may be more challenging in some regions of the country in the future. To help ensure tomorrow’s fruits and vegetables, researchers with the WSU Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR) and Department of Biological Systems Engineering are on a four-year, $3.4 million research project to find more places to […]

WSU Faculty, Dr. Lav Khot, Presents at 2017 APS Annual Meeting in San Antonio

State-of-the-art on Sensing Technologies for Plant Disease Detection Lav Khot, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering IAREC, Washington State University Brief description: Site-specific disease detection is one of the key aspects of effective crop (loss) management. Recent advances in detectors (optical, chemical) have improved feasibility of development and use of rapid non-contact/nondestructive sensing techniques […]

Biological Systems Engineering supports international meeting

Nearly 50 graduate students and faculty members represented the Department of Biological Systems Engineering at the Annual International Meeting (AIM) of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), held July 16-19 in Spokane. Thirty-four BSE graduate students volunteered at the meeting, which was coordinated by Jonathan Lomber, BSE Scientific Laboratory Manager. Attended by more than 1,700 students and professionals, […]

BSysE 512 – Poster Competition Awards

On behalf of Dr. Wu and Dr. Tang, we would like to congratulate the winners of the BSysE 512 – Poster Competition. 1st Place: Yaqoob Majeed – “Mechanical/Automatic Solution for Labor Intensive Branch Training in Trellis Trained Apple Trees” 2nd Place: Momtanu Chakraborty – “Evaluation of Vineyard Growth Using NIR and Thermal Images under Different […]

WSU Research Gets Closer to Cost-Effective BioFuels

June 5, 2017 | ENVIRONMENTAL MOLECULAR SCIENCES LABORATORY  [ full article ] June 6, 2017 | PHYS.ORG [ full article ] Molecular-level understanding of cellulose structure reveals why it resists degradation and could lead to cost-effective biofuels. A major bottleneck hindering cost-effective production of biofuels and many valuable chemicals is the difficulty of breaking down cellulose—an important […]

WSU Tri-Cities team earns CleanTech Big Picture prize at UW business competition

May 26, 2017 | by Maegan Murray RICHLAND, Wash. – A team from Washington State University Tri-Cities took home the Wells Fargo “CleanTech” Big Picture prize during the University of Washington’s Business Plan Competition this week. With the award, the team, which includes Libing Zhang, a recent doctoral alumna, and Manuel Seubert and Taylor Pate, […]

WAVE Minute: AgWeatherNet & Grape Growers

May 11, 2017  |  Good Fruit Grower  |  Kate Prengaman How can AgWeatherNet help grape growers across the Inland Northwest? WSU’s Melba Salazar explains.   [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/322173191″ type=”visual” autoplay=”0″]   See the full story on the Washington Ag Network

WSU Tri-Cities team in UW business competition ‘sweet 16’

April 28, 2017   |  WSU News RICHLAND, Wash. – A team from Washington State University Tri-Cities whose business plan is to commercialize a WSU-patented jet fuel technology has advanced to the University of Washington Business Plan Competition’s “sweet 16” round. The sweet 16 round of the UW Business Plan Competition kicks off May 25. [ full […]