Good Fruit Grower | Nov 25, 2015 WSU researcher is using thermal infrared cameras and other sensor technologies to study fruit traits. Researchers have made strides in the study of fruit genomics in recent years, but less ground has been gained in the field of phenomics, the measurement of plant and fruit traits. Genotyping and […]
Graduate student Brennan Pecha is one of four researchers from about 330 presenting posters to receive the international Frontier-Labs Young Scientist Award for significant contributions to analytical and applied pyrolysis.
Puget Sound Section Institute of Food Technologists (PSIFT) 2016 Achievement Awards The awards were presented to recipients at the Student Awards Dinner on Thursday May 12th in Seattle by PSIFT.
We extend our warmest congratulations to Ellen Bornhorst, PhD candidate studying under guidance of Dr. Juming Tang! Ellen won the PhD-level CAHNRS Three Minute Thesis Competition on March 4. Ellen will be participating in WSU-wide competition on March 22. [more about event]
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Congratulations to BSE faculty member, Shyam Sablani, the 2016 recipient of the Marcel Loncin Research Prize. The Marcel Loncin Research Prize, given every other year, was first awarded in 1994. It honors and provides research funding to an IFT member or nonmember scientist or engineer conducting basic chemistry/physics/engineering research applied to food processing and improvement of […]
Discovery advances biowaste-to-jet fuel research By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities have figured out a way to successfully convert a common wood byproduct into hydrocarbon molecules that could be used as jet fuel. [read full article] Treated with care: Analyzing a new pre-treatment process for biofuel production […]
Congratulations to Dr. Hanwu Lei and his group members and co-authors who won “Best Paper Award 2015” from Bioresource Technology. The published paper “A review of catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived phenols from biomass pyrolysis” appears among the ten top cited papers contributing to the Bioresource Technology 2014 Impact Factor, receiving 31 citations (Web of Science) during […]
Fifteen graduate students presented their research work as a part of BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar course. Four Best Presentation Awards were presented by Dr. Claudio Stöckle on December 10, 2015. First Place: Shuxiang Liu Second Place: Ellen Bornhorst Third Place: Jungang Wang Fourth Place: Ali Abghari Fourth Place: Mohammad Amini The students received recognition certificates […]
by Sylvia Kantor, CAHNRS News PULLMAN, Wash. – More than $1.7 million was awarded to Washington State University for specialty crop research including berries, potatoes, grapes, tree fruit, onions, carrots and Christmas trees, the Washington State Department of Agriculture announced today. WSU received grants for 10 of the 24 projects funded through the 2015 U.S. […]