Research

22 Jun Education course using community garden, partnership practices to connect learning to real world

Posted at 16:58h in Academic Affairs, Education, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Staff, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray RICHLAND, Wash. – Education students at Washington State University Tri-Cities had the chance to put what they learned about school-community engagement practices to use with a new community garden experience that also educates community members about gardening, healthy eating habits and more. WSU Tri-Cities...

21 Jun WSU professor lands $500,000 grant to pursue lignin to biofuel conversion

Posted at 08:15h in Academic Affairs, engineering, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – WSU Tri-Cities associate professor Xiao Zhang is targeting the use of lignin — a common material that makes the cell walls of plants rigid — to create affordable biofuels and bioproducts. Interested in the project, the U.S. Department of...

24 May WSU, PNNL software team focuses on detecting cancer biomarkers in real time

Posted at 08:27h in Academic Affairs, Alumni, Computer science, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Student, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Computer science students at Washington State University Tri-Cities are partnering with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create a software that will improve data processing to help identify cancer and other health biomarkers in real-time. The Pacific Northwest National...

21 May 50 shades of Rosé: WSU researcher perfects wine’s distinct colors

Posted at 09:49h in Academic Affairs, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Wine, WSUTC News

By Linda Weiford, WSU News PULLMAN, Wash. – Jim Harbertson sees through rosé colored glasses. WSU wine researcher Jim Harbertson enjoys, admires and carefully weighs the hues, shades and tints of rosé wine. Photo by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services Finely tuned shades and hues ranging from blush...

18 May WSU grape virologist named assistant dean, director

Posted at 11:39h in Academic Affairs, Faculty, Research, Science, Wine, WSUTC News

PROSSER, Wash. – Naidu Rayapati, world-renowned plant pathologist, has been named director of the Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser and assistant dean for the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences at WSU Tri-Cities. Naidu Rayapati gives a talk to growers in...

17 May Radiological book collection donated by former professor to WSU Tri-Cities

Posted at 10:46h in Academic Affairs, engineering, Faculty, frontpage, medicine, profile, Research, Science, WSUTC News

By Elinor Lake, intern, WSU Tri-Cities communications RICHLAND, Wash. – Former professor and long-time WSU Tri-Cities donor Ronald Kathren and his wife Susan have donated a huge collection of radiological books to WSU Tri-Cities. Several books as part of the Ronald and Susan Kathren Radiological and Affiliated...

07 May May 16 & 17: Wine microbiology focus of Albert Ravenholt lecture series

Posted at 14:14h in Academic Affairs, Research, Science, Wine, WSUTC News

RICHLAND, Wash. – “The Secret Life of Yeast: Not so Secret Anymore,” presented by Dr. Linda Bisson will be held on May 16, at 2:00 p.m. in the Ste. Michelle Wine Estates WSU Wine Science Center in Richland, Wash., and at 1:30 p.m. May 17,...

03 May Engineering, arts create interactive tree sculpture that speaks to realities of plastic waste

Posted at 09:09h in Academic Affairs, Art, Design, engineering, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Student, Uncategorized, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Mechanical engineering students in a Washington State University Tri-Cities capstone course worked with a university arts professor to design and construct a moving tree sculpture that presents the unfortunate realities of the use and discarding of plastic in...

02 May WSU Tri-Cities team researching use of fungi to restore native plant populations

Posted at 14:39h in Academic Affairs, Faculty, frontpage, profile, Research, Science, Student, WSUTC News

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – A team at Washington State University Tri-Cities is studying how to transplant fungi to restore native plant populations in the Midwest and Northwest. Undergraduate student Catalina Yepez prepares a DNA sample in a lab at WSU Tri-Cities. Mycorrhizal fungi form...

25 Apr WSU Tri-Cities doctorate student receives Finland summer school scholarship

Posted at 15:08h in Academic Affairs, Education, Research, Staff, Student, WSUTC News

RICHLAND, Wash. – Lindsay Lightner, a Ph.D. student in mathematics and science education and coordinator of the Alternate Route Teacher Certification program at Washington State University Tri-Cities, has received the 2018 European Science Education Research Association Summer School in Finland scholarship from the National Association...