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BSE Graduate Students win Best Graduate Poster Award at the 2019 BioAg Symposium
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 $500 scholarship.
See more pictures on the WSU CAHNRS Twitter Feed: WSU CAHNRS on Twitter
Citation: Bahlol, H.Y., R. Sinha*, L.R. Khot, G.-A. Hoheisel and R. Ehsani. 2019. Efficacy evaluation of horticultural oil based thermotherapy for pear psylla management. 2019 BIOAg Symposium, Center … » More …
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- 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
- BSE Faculty Receive 2018 WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards
- Researchers collaborate with youth for science fair projects, encourage interest in STEM
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- BSE Faculty and Students Attend ASABE 2018 – Student Wins First Place Award
- Food Engineering Students, Graduates, & Faculty Attend IFT 2018
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Collaboration with Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University in China
- IFT Program of the Month
- WSU secures more than $1.5 million for specialty crop research
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- 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
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- BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar Awards
- Grant funds test of market potential for jet fuel research
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- Dr. Sankaran Presents at Inaugural Event
- Protecting our food system in a changing climate
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- Peter’s Water-Saving Project Featured in Press
- International Spotlight on Juming Tang
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- Aug. 14-17: Global look at agricultural robots, automation
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2015
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- 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
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- 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
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- Roving cameras see the big picture for wheat breeding
- WSU Tri-Cities prof receives grant to study high-energy biofuels
2014
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- Early Career Award
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- BSYSE 512 Poster Competition Winners
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- ASABE Conference Research Award
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2012
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- BSysE students Win Poster Competition
- Juming Tang Radio Frequency Research featured article in WSUToday
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- 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