May 29, 2019 | WSU Insider WSU researchers are using satellites and drones to search for better wheat varieties to feed a growing world. The team launched a new project this spring, developing techniques that allow satellites and drones to identify and study wheat varieties from overhead. This research is funded by a USDA-NIFA grant. […]
May 28, 2019 | filling-space.com How does artificial intelligence-powered precision farming affect food sustainability? This is a question that Filling Space.com asked their panel of experts, including Sindhuja Sankaran, an Agricultural Automation Engineering specialist from Washington State University’s Biological Systems Engineering Department. Sankaran says, “For us, artificial intelligence serves as a key tool that assists […]
May 12, 2019 | Salem, OR Some 30 years ago, he was a lad tending rice, sugarcane, goats and other crops on his family’s subsistence farm in the mid-hill region of Bhojpur, Nepal. Last December, Manoj Karkee (pronounced Maw-nose Car-key) was among 11 U.S. and Canadian professors named 2019 pioneers in artificial intelligence and the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
February 4, 2019 | The Daily Evergreen A WSU assistant professor in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering received a $300,000 grant from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research to research pesticide use on crops. Lav Khot said he and his team are researching ways to reduce the use of broad-spectrum pesticides on crops, […]
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 […]