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 […]
January 15, 2019 | CAHNRS News PROSSER – WSU’s Lav Khot will look to reduce reliance on broad spectrum pesticides that result in residues on food with an award from the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR). Khot and his collaborators received one of FFAR’s New Investigator awards for 2018, which includes a 3-year, […]
January 7, 2019 | WSU Insider By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri‑Cities Bin Yang, a professor of biological systems engineering at Washington State University Tri‑Cities, has been selected for the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award — the most prestigious appointment in the Fulbright Scholar Program. Fulbright currently awards approximately 8,000 grants annually. Of those, 40 are selected […]