Dr. Gerald Holmes, Director of the Cal Poly Strawberry Center in San Luis Obispo, CA, visited the WSU Plant Pathology department in Pullman on Monday, November 6th as the Fall 2023 graduate student-invited speaker coordinated by the Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization. Dr. Holmes met individually with several Plant Pathology faculty members and interacted with […]

Congratulations to Chakradhar Mattupalli, Assistant Professor in the WSU Department of Plant Pathology on being nominated and accepted into the 2024-2025 WSU Provost’s Leadership Academy cohort! Faculty are nominated for participation based on their record of service and leadership, and interest in gaining administrative, communication, and management skills, as well as expanding networking and collegial relationships. Dr. Mattupalli runs the Berry and Potato Pathology (BPP) program at the WSU Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, where he focuses on two key commodity crops in the Pacific Northwest: highbush blueberry and potato. Showing Provost’s Leadership for 2024 to 2025 cohort, what campus, department, and college that each person belongs.

Department of Plant Pathology’s Drs. Joey Hulbert and Marianne Elliott are working along side various community colleges in the state of Washington to improve tree canopy cover in urban areas. To find out more check out the article in the WSU Insider.

Drs. Gary Grove and Frank Zhao’s work on bacterial canker in stone fruit trees was featured in the ‘Good Fruit Grower’. Read more about it here.

“Recent events in Israel and the Gaza strip have resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives. Tensions have mounted globally as the conflict has grown.  We categorically condemn the violence directed at innocent victims and mourn the loss of innocent life in Israel and Gaza.  It is important to remember, in the face of […]

Drs. Tim Murray and Mike Pumphrey at WSU contributed information to an article titled “Weaponizing Wheat: How Strategic Competition With Russia Could Threaten American Food Security” on pp. 34-49 of the latest issue of the Joint Force Quarterly by NDU Press that was written by Karl Scheuerman: https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/jfq/jfq-111/jfq-111.pdf  Karl Scheuerman works in the Tri-Cities and […]

Gary Chastagner, professor and plant pathologist in the Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University at Puyallup Research and Extension Center, was honored with the Herb and Helen Plumb Award on September 9, 2022, at the annual meeting of Pacific Northwest Christmas Tree Association (PNWCTA) in Portland, Oregon.  This is the association’s highest award of […]

Achour Amiri, assistant professor of the Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University (WSU) at Tree Fruit Research & Extension Center, Wenatchee, is one of the two winners of the Pacesetter Award for FY2022 from the WSU Office of Research.  He was selected for this award as a promising junior tenure/tenure-track faculty member who has […]