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 […]
WSU Insider | March 23, 2018 Tang is the Distinguished Chair of Food Engineering. During his 22 years of research at WSU, he has yielded three U.S. patents and three pending patent applications. The FDA accepted two processes based on Dr. Tang’s technologies, paving the way to replace traditional canning methods. He has authored or […]
Honey Bee Health Coalition Congratulates Winners of Nutrition Competition The Honey Bee Health Coalition announced today that it has awarded $40,000 to four innovative projects aimed at improving honey bee nutrition and supporting honey bee and pollinator health. The awards, announced today at the 2018 American Bee Research Conference, are part of the Coalition’s inaugural […]
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. […]
Dr. Karkee’s lab was funded by NSF-USDA Cyber Physical Systems Program to Develop SMART Irrigation System using IoT and Big Data Analytics https://www.wired.com/story/why-robots-should-shake-the-bejeezus-out-of-cherry-trees/ http://www.theledger.com/news/20180122/local-company-advancing-rapidly-on-robotic-strawberry-harvester https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/robotics/not-far-from-the-tree