May 5, 2015 | by Tina Hilding, Voiland College of Engineering & Architecture RICHLAND, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have found a way to make jet fuel from a common black fungus found in decaying leaves, soil and rotting fruit. The researchers hope the process leads to economically viable production of aviation biofuels in […]
Six students at Washington State University were crowned champions of WSU’s Fifth Annual Global Case Competition, Friday, April 10, 2015. The victorious group, under the name Team Verde, consists of a pair of graduate students from the WSU Spokane campus, team captain Emma Henselbecker and Sara Dumit, as well as four undergraduates from Pullman, Brandon […]
Ph.D. student, George Mathew Neerackal, won 2nd place at the Ron Sheffield Memorial Student Poster competition at the Waste to Worth conference, Seattle, WA; March 30-April 03, 2015. Poster Title: Manure pH Management for Mitigating Ammonia Emissions from Manure Flush Dairy Barns Advisor: Dr. Pius Ndegwa Dairy cows produce lots of manure. A WSU student’s […]
March 2015 | by Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PROSSER, Wash. – The last time Prosser experienced a month as warm as February 2015, relative to normal, some people were still using typewriters and cordless telephones. According to Washington State University’s AgWeatherNet, the February monthly anomaly was up 5.9 degrees overall and […]
Feb 2015 | The rise of the apple picking robot, by David Kroman Three out of five apples in the United States come from Washington. That’s 10-12 billion apples if you’re doing the math – enough to wrap around the earth 29 times. The $2.25 billion earned in 2012 was nearly double the revenue of […]
Feb 2015 | WSU News, by Seth Truscott, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Wheat breeders at Washington State University are sizing up experimental crops from a new perspective: cameras that see far better than the human eye. Scientists deploy tractor- and cart-mounted multi-spectral cameras to see how new wheat […]
August 28, 2015 | WSU News RICHLAND, Wash. — Hanwu Lei, Washington State University Tri-Cities professor in biological systems engineering, was awarded a $494,000 grant this fall to research catalysts, which will be used to increase the energy output and performance of biofuels. Lei said he will use the biomass-derived catalysts to produce aromatic hydrocarbons, […]