Des Layne held a faculty position at the TFREC from February 2013 until his transfer to Pullman in 2015. Dr. Layne is now moving onto a lead position in Auburn. Check out this link to see more details of this new adventure.
Congratulations are in order for some outstanding TFREC employees recently awarded employee excellence awards by the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS). Tree Fruit Extension Team (Jim McFerson-TFREC, David Granatstein-TFREC, Ines Hanrahan, Lynn Sosnoskie-TFREC, Tianna DuPont-TFREC, Karen Lewis, Wendy Jones-TFREC, Bernardita Sallato, Gwen Hoheisel and Tory Schmidt) – Team Interdisciplinary Award Trish […]
The Science in our Valley seminars will be starting again this week, February 7 at 4pm, and alternating venues week to week through May 2. See the announcement of this weeks event for speaker, seminar topic and location here.
The next faculty + admin meeting will be held on February 23 at 2pm in the Stockwell Room. Minutes from the January meeting can be found here.
Dr. Louis Bengyella joined Dr. Amiri’s team in January. Major pre- and post-harvest diseases of apple and pear lead to heavy economic losses worldwide and particularly in Washington State. Dr. Bengyella aims at integrating strategic measures for durable and sustainable management of gray mold diseases of apple and pear via careful decryption of the population structure and […]
Raquel Gomez comes from California’s Central Valley, here she cultivated her passion for plants and agriculture. Upon completing a B.S. in Agricultural Studies and a B.A. in Spanish from California State University, Stanislaus in May of 2017, she joined Dr. Kalcsits’s lab in pursuit of an M.S. in Horticulture. Raquel’s research will focus on the […]
WSU locations will be closed Monday, December 25, 2017, Tuesday, December 26, 2017 AND Monday, January 1, 2018, in observance of University holidays. Reduced operations will be Wednesday, December 27, 2017 through Friday, December 29, 2017. Most university operations and services will be unavailable during this time. TFREC will be observing the reduced operations, therefore, […]
Dayna Dinius
A new blog was created to keep everyone at TFREC up to date on the status of our communications systems including the AMS equipment, our internet, and the phones. To view the blog visit here.
Shashika spent the last few years as a graduate student in the plant pathology department. We are now honored to have her continue her work as a postdoc at TFREC. Shashika will be doing research and outreach under the Tree Fruit Research extension program specifically focusing on alternatives to apple replant disease (ARD) management with […]