Dr. Gerald Holmes of the Cal Poly Strawberry Center visits WSU Plant Pathology Department as graduate student invited speaker

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 […]

Provost’s Leadership Academy – 2024-2025 Cohort

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.

Departmental DEI Committee’s Statement on Gaza

“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 […]

Dr. Tim Murray and Weaponized Wheat

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 honored with Herb and Helen Plumb Award

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 […]

Gary Chastagner

Achour Amiri receives Pacesetter Award

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 […]

Amiri Achour.