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
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 […]
The grand prize winners at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC) proved to judges that gardening and innovation go together naturally. BioPots took home the $15,000 Wells Fargo prize with their biodegradable planter pots made from biomass waste like spent beer grains. The University of Washington team included three engineers from the Bioresource Science and […]
January 11, 2018 | BiofuelsDisgest, Jim Lane Back in 2016, researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities landed a National Science Foundation I-Corps grant to explore the market potential of their biojet fuel research. The team had successfully demonstrated a new, water-based process for deconstructing and recovering lignin from biomass and converting it into jet fuel-range hydrocarbons. […]
Each award recipient will receive a scholarship of $1,000 that will be deposited directly into your student account for spring 2018. AUTOMATION – Arnie & Marta Kegel Endowed Fellowship Rajeev Sinha Chongyuan Zhang Xin Zhang BIOENERGY – Arnie & Marta Kegel Endowed Fellowship Ayca Seker Yinglei Han Iva Tews Jose Martinez Fernandez FOOD ENGINEERING – Arnie […]
November 23, 2017 WSU Faculty member Dr. Melba Ruth Salazar-Gutierrez has published a pamphlet covering the Extension and Rural Education Subgroup – Land Grant University Colombia Consortium Read the pamphlet here
Oct 2017 | IFT Food Engineering Division Newsletter The department highlighted this month is the Department of Biological Systems Engineering (BSE), in the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at the Washington State University located in Pullman, WA. BSE offers the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Biological and Agricultural Engineering with four areas […]
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 ]