MATS Boot Camp Three co-hosted by 915Labs, Inc. and Washington State University at the Food Science and Human Nutrition Building on Thursday, March 17, 2016 in Pullman, Wash., where participants learn about Microwave Assisted Thermal Sterilization.
Tang’s microwave research partnership with Amazon featured worldwide
As it looks for new ways to break into the $700 billion U.S. grocery business, Amazon.com, Inc., is exploring Tang’s microwave assisted thermal sterilization, or MATS, technology, first developed for the U.S. military.
The article and related video coverage were shared by news media worldwide, including New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, CNBC, MSN, the Bangkok Post, the Times of India, the Jordan Times, and the Arab News.
Clallam Extension earns Land Trust’s Farmer of the Year Award
In Clallam County, a new generation of young farmers is feeling the pull of the land, and they are reclaiming the county’s deep agricultural legacy with training and support from WSU Extension.
• Beers, professor and entomologist at the WSU Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center in Wenatchee, has won the ESA 2017 Award for Excellence in Integrated Pest Management.
• Ramsay, Extension Pesticide Education Specialist, received the ESA Distinguished Achievement Award in Extension.
• Whitener, doctoral student at the tree fruit center, is the recipient of the Student Activity Award.
All three will be recognized at the November 2017 ESA Meeting in Denver. The awards recognize scientists, educators, and students who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to entomology.
Animal Sciences releases new WSU Seasonings & Rubs.
These blends were designed with Cougar Quality Meats in mind, crafted specifically for WSU Premium Beef by award-winning Executive Chef Jamie Callison. Chef Callison is the author of The Crimson Spoon and a Culinary Arts Instructor in the WSU School of Hospitality and Business Management.
“I love creating a completely new product from something else,” says Ewing. “Tiny micro-organisms make these changes for you, converting sugars into alcohol and producing aromas and flavor compounds that turn juice into cider.”
Landowners in the “wood basket” of the state learned how to protect their forests and preserve local watershed and salmon health at the recent WSU Extension Forestry-hosted Steve Stinson Legacy Forest Owners Field Day, held Aug. 19 near Oakville.
Southwest Washington is the timber center of Washington state, with over one million acres of non-industrial, private forests controlled by 40,000 families. This region is also rich with all stocks and species of salmon, and is vital to Pacific Northwest salmon recovery efforts. The project is helping landowners protect and improve watershed health and productivity of both aquatic and terrestrial systems so that thriving salmon populations continue to coexist with a healthy wood products industry.
Scholarship, meeting is ‘Golden Opportunity’ for Crop Science’s Swannack, Lane
Holly Lane and Carmen Swannack, undergraduate researchers in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, have received the Golden Opportunity Scholarship from the Crop Science Society of America.
With the award, Lane and Swannack will take part in the joint international annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America Oct. 22-25, 2017, in Tampa, Florida.
