New People

Welcome to Allison Kane who is joining Carolina’s lab as a timeslip.

Let’s give a big welcome to Abby Clarke.  She is a Grad Student that will be in Tobin’s lab.  She previously studied Insect Ecology and Conservation at the University of Delaware.  She had the opportunity to work at the Beneficial Insect Introduction Unit with the USDA working on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug project and […]

Luckily, this has been a slow week for IT incidents. The only ‘hiccup’ I’m aware of was the failure of a power backup for the Kiosk and Room Scheduler servers on Monday. Jerry was able to get them switched over to another backup and I got everything restarted and running smoothly. Okta project: the Okta […]

Carolina Torres will be joining TFREC in early February 2019. Carolina will lead research on stresses that harm fruit quality, as well as handling technologies, fruit physiology and traits, sensory attributes, and postharvest cultural practices. Sharing her research with partners in industry, the endowed chair will help growers, packers and shippers find and use new […]

Welcome back to Allie Wright who is working with Peter Smytheman as a timeslip.

Kacie Athey joins the Beers lab as a Post Doctoral Scholar investigating sterile insect releases of codling moth in apples. Kacie finished up a post doc at the University of Kentucky investigating the sub lethal effects of insecticides on bed bug behavior. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Kentucky where she […]

Welcome to Emma Buczkowski!  She grew up in Portland and received her B.S. in Botany from OSU and then went to the University of Wisconsin for her M.S. in Plant Pathology. Her thesis examined the impact of pesticides on the turfgrass microbiome and the effectiveness of it on the market biocontrol products for controlling dollar […]

Welcome back to Trenton Osborn who will be helping in Stefano’s group.    

Robert Orpet is joining the Beers lab as a timeslip.  

Please take a minute to welcome Claudia Baldassi to WSU. She comes from Italy to pursue her Ph.D. in Horticulture. Her motivation in pursuing research in the field of horticulture stems from her commitment to developing sustainable food production and food processing methods. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science and an M.S. in Agricultural […]