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Lav Khot and CAHNRS highlighted during NIFA’s National Washington Day – May 10,2023
USDA | NIFA May 11, 2023
To celebrate National Washington Day on May 10, USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) is highlighting the innovative NIFA-funded research conducted by Lav Khot, CAHNRS and Washington State University (WSU).NIFA’s support allows CAHNRS to bring new ideas to light that improve our food supply, protect our environment and natural resources, and keep Washington agriculture competitive. More than 73% of CAHNRS extramural funding is from federal sources, the most important of which is USDA-NIFA. … » More …
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2023
- Lav Khot and CAHNRS highlighted during NIFA’s National Washington Day – May 10,2023
- Graduate School Announces Rongge Zou as a Winner of Albrecht Scholarship
- Birgitte Ahring receives Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award
- Jonathan Male appointed as new head of Office for National Laboratory Partnerships
- Washington State University Emphasizes Food Packaging
- Three Minute Thesis – Austin Gluth wins the Tri-Cities 3MT Competition (3/8/2023)
- Three Minute Thesis – Jake Schrader (PhD) and Kesevan Veloo (MS) win the BSE Competition
- Shulin Chen named National Academy of Inventors senior member
- AgAID Digital AgAthOn 2023 – Hackathon
2022
- History book chronicles 130-year evolution of agricultural engineering at WSU
- WSU’s Lav Khot, colleagues receive multi-state award for ag drone research
- Juming Tang inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2021 Class of Fellows
- Mark Schrader places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
- Behnaz Molaei places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
- Sustainable Jet Fuel Based on Lignin
- BSE Departmental Retreat – Satuday, August 6th, 2022
- Joan Wu honored by CAHNRS with Excellence in Advising Award
- Sindhuja Sankaran honored by CAHNRS with Excellence in Early Career Award
- Drones and bird pests
- Welcome Marcelo Martinez as a permanent BSE Office staff member
- Lignin-based jet fuel packs more power for less pollution
- WSU Flower Thinning Robot
- Welcome Nina Willis as a permanent BSE Office staff member
- Behnaz Molaei receives the AFW’s Karen P. Depauw Leadership Award
- Behnaz Molaei receives Graduate Student Leadership Award from CAHNRS Academic Programs
- Three Minute Thesis – Uddhav Bhattarai wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition
- Behnaz Molaei receives the GPSA College Representative of the Year Award
- Dr. Shulin Chen Receives Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
2021
- Uddhav Bhattarai is a finalist for best oral presentation at ASABE 2021
- Legacy of leadership and mentorship for retiring professor – Claudio Stockle
- Behnaz Molaei is a 2021 Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner
- Research Week Celebrates Outstanding Faculty and Staff – Juming Tang
- Research Week Celebrates Outstanding Faculty and Staff – Manoj Karkee
- Residents Hope to Prevent Wildfire With BioChar
- Fitria Fnu is working with PNNL researchers to develop sensors that detect refrigerant leaks in air-conditioners.
- WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture
- Lav Khot named to 40 Under 40 Class of 2021
- WSU summer undergraduate research featured at virtual symposia
- Consumers will pay more for ready‑to‑eat meals made with fewer ingredients
- Lav Khot to lead WSU’s AgWeatherNet
- Abhilash Chandel wins CAHNRS Graduate Student Leadership Award
- FEC Club wins the 2021 GPSA Excellence Award for Registered Student Organizations (RSO)
- International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Honors Dr. Shyam Sablani
- Three Minute Thesis – Femi Peter Alege wins second place overall in the WSU wide competition
- Three Minute Thesis – Femi Peter Alege wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition
- Raspberry muffins may be in your future
- Juming Tang elected to the National Academy of Engineering
2020
- Pilot project turns corn waste into jet fuel
- New chair encourages discoveries in Biological Systems Engineering
- Qin Zhang elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- New biojet fuel could be a viable alternative to fossil fuel
- WSU researchers join $9.8M project to study low-moisture food safety
- Robotic crop pollination awarded $1 million grant
- India partnership spurs development of new WSU microwave technology for safer meals
2019
- Satellites show promise as tool for monitoring crop development
- Spray, without the sprayer – Taking air out of the equation
- Getting mac and cheese to Mars
- Dr. Tang is a winner of IAEF Lifetime Achievement Award
- Recent election to identify FED Rep/Representative-elect to the International Association for Engineering and Food (IAEF)
- Adding Washington State to the California-Dutch AgFoodTech
- Who are you going to call? Rotbusters!
- New global fellowship program grows discoveries, partnerships in ag research
- WSU’s Ag Tech Day – 1:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22, in Prosser, Washington.
- Juming Tang elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- Let us bring demand into the equation
- Precision pruning can help machines safely, efficiently harvest apples
- Dr. Hanwu Lei Featured by USDA NIFA
- Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-country
- Satellites and Drones Search for Better Wheat Varieties to Feed the World
- Artificial intelligence and precision farming: does efficiency mean sustainability?
- Western Innovator: From Nepal to Robotic Pioneer
- 2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award – Congratulations!
- 2019 PSIFT Student Achievement Awards
- Indonesian Fulbright Scholar studying biofuels at WSU Tri-Cities, PNNL
- Spray Researchers Aim to Catch Their Drift
- BSE Graduate Students win Best Graduate Poster Award at the 2019 BioAg Symposium
- Researcher finds alternatives to pesticides
- Online publication labels professor as AI trailblazer
- Lav Khot Named New Innovator in Food and Agriculture
- BSE Faculty Bin Yang Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award
2018
- BSE Faculty Manoj Karkee Named 2019 Pioneer in AI and IoT
- Graduate Students Selected for PNNL-WSU Distinguished Graduate Research Program
- Graduate Student Wins IFT Poster Competition Award
- Graduate Student wins Award in Soil and Water Management and Conservation
- Agricultural robots combine future, farming practices
- Graduate Student Selected as Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner
- WSU, Australian scientists partner to form Joint Center for Ag Robotics
- BSE Faculty Receive USDA-NIFA Funding to Study Water Use
- Research Corner: Dr. Manuel Garcia-Pérez
- Technology for Trade
- BSE Faculty Receive 2018 WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards
- Researchers collaborate with youth for science fair projects, encourage interest in STEM
- WSU’s apple picking machine provides potential for future orchard operations
- BSE Faculty and Students Attend ASABE 2018 – Student Wins First Place Award
- Food Engineering Students, Graduates, & Faculty Attend IFT 2018
- WSU Microwave Technology Featured in Harvard Business Review Article
- Effects of Sugars, Furans, and their Derivatives on Hydrodeoxygenation of Biorefinery Lignin‐Rich Wastes to Hydrocarbons
- WSU researchers creating catalyst to improve jet biofuel production
- FEC Club Visits Pacific Foods
- Waled Suliman Receives 2018 Amazon Catalyst Grant
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at the UW Business Plan Competition
- Commencement May 2018
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at WSU Business Plan Competition
- Chongyuan Zhang receives 2018 Ann Chittenden Holland Master’s Thesis Award for Graduate Student Excellence
- BSE Faculty Receive Awards
- WSU precision agriculture program ranked in top 25 in world
- WSU researchers develop material that could save honey bees
- GPSA Award of Excellence
- Center of Excellence for Food Safety receives $1M Grant Continuation from USDA NIFA
- Police, scientists, hope to use drones for innovation
- “BeeToxx” Receives Second Place at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- Dr. Juming Tang Receives Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- WSU Among the Winners
- Biofuels Digest Features WSU Jet Fuel Research
- Dr. Karkee’s lab funded
2017
- Unplugging the Cellulose Biofuel Bottleneck
- Pamphlet – Extension and Rural Education Subgroup – Land Grant University Colombia Consortium
- Collaboration with Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University in China
- IFT Program of the Month
- WSU secures more than $1.5 million for specialty crop research
- Dr. Lav Khot
- Cellulosic Revelation
- CSANR, BSE researchers seek sites to grow tomorrow’s produce
- WSU Faculty, Dr. Lav Khot, Presents at 2017 APS Annual Meeting in San Antonio
- Biological Systems Engineering supports international meeting
- BSysE 512 – Poster Competition Awards
- WSU Research Gets Closer to Cost-Effective BioFuels
- WSU Tri-Cities team earns CleanTech Big Picture prize at UW business competition
- WAVE Minute: AgWeatherNet & Grape Growers
- WSU Tri-Cities team in UW business competition ‘sweet 16’
- New model forecasts grapevine bud break, bloom and veraison
- Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproducts
- Predicting Phenology: A New Tool from AgWeatherNet
- Washington State Professor Finds Sky-high Opportunities for Drones in Agriculture
- Youth get hands-on lessons in biofuels, food engineering, robotics
- Plant biologists welcome their robot overlords
- Highly Cited Research
2016
- Agtech: Higher yields, lower costs, better environmental protection
- Gap fund awards help get WSU innovations to market
- BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar Awards
- Grant funds test of market potential for jet fuel research
- Sophisticated presentations in Spanish
- Dr. Sankaran Presents at Inaugural Event
- Protecting our food system in a changing climate
- Grant Helps Farmers Use Smart Phones to Save Water
- Dr. Melba Salazar – AgWeatherNet Video Series
- Peter’s Water-Saving Project Featured in Press
- International Spotlight on Juming Tang
- Student represents U.S. at sustainable chemistry school
- Student works to boost renewable energy in Philippines
- Student Wins First Place
- WSU faculty member presents at National Advance Biofuels Conference and Expo
- Spotlight on Lignin
- Dr. Hanwu Lei and his research group featured in a top journal
- Aug. 14-17: Global look at agricultural robots, automation
- ASABE Student Mile Award
- Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award 2016
- Drone captures vineyard irrigation data
- DJI, WSU to partner on ag drone research, education
- Ph.D. student earns international prize for heat research
- PSIFT Winners
- WSU researchers aim to make farming more efficient
- $11M funds food safety center, tech transfer to markets
- Research Team Competes for Prize
- SURCA 2016
- BSYSE Ph.D. student wins CAHNRS competition
- WSU Faculty, Shyam Sablani, wins IFT Achievement Award
- WSU Faculty wins IFT Achievement Award
- Developing technologies that will change agriculture
- Collaboration Spotlight: Lav Khot
- Robots Picking Apples
2015
- Outstanding NRES Student Presentations Delivered
- Phenotyping in the field goes high-tech
- Biowaste-to-jet fuel
- Graduate Seminar Awards
- Research for specialty crops boosted by $1.7 million
- Research to be presented at 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting
- Doctoral student travels from China to study biofuels pretreatment technology
- Student Awards
- Seligman APV Travel Bursary Recipient, Ellen Bornhorst, Reports from Quebec
- WSU tests unmanned helicopter to dry cherries
- Video: Unmanned helicopter tested for rainwater removal
- Grad student wins ASABE conference paper competition
- WSU engineers, scientists prepare to test apple-picking robot
- NSF Conference Grant Awarded
- Doctoral Student Places First in Poster Competition
- WSU Tri-Cities Announces Student Research Grants
- Congratulations PSIFT Scholarship Winners
- Sensor Data Improves Cherry Production
- Tri-Cities Student Selected for Sustainable Energy Program
- Student Awards
- Researchers produce jet fuel compounds from fungus
- Global Case Competition
- Cuts to Manure Gas Earns Student Kudos
- Warmest winter since 1992
- Robots Picking Apples
- Roving cameras see the big picture for wheat breeding
- WSU Tri-Cities prof receives grant to study high-energy biofuels
2014
- Student Earns Top International Sustainability Prize
- Early Career Award
- 2014 ASABE and CSBE | SCGAB Annual International Meeting
- BSYSE 512 Poster Competition Winners
- Biofuel technology goes mobile
- ASABE Conference Research Award
- Studying Termites to Achieve Better Biofuel
- Congratulations, Regents Professor!
- New Technology Improves Food Safety and Flavor
- Peas in disguise may increase nutrition
- ASABE 2014 Fellow
- 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
2013
2012
- WSU Trains Philippine Executives in Food Safety Management
- BSysE students Win Poster Competition
- Juming Tang Radio Frequency Research featured article in WSUToday
- Wenjia Zhang wins 1st place poster award at IMPI 46
- CougsCARE design team places second in Hydrogen Education Foundation Competition
- Juming Tang recipient of 2012 ASABE International Food Engineering Award
- BSysE Students Win PLACE Student Packaging Design Competition