2007-2008 End of Year Spring Activities

Alums Getting Together ‐ June 2008

Pete Gothro (attended WSU), Tae Ho Ro (PhD ’95), Dr. Mee Young Song (PhD ’96), Todd (MS ’96) & Jill Murray and Nelson Kabalo (MS ’95). Picture taken at Todd Murray’s home.

In June Drs. Mee Young Song & Dr. Tae Ho Ro stopped by Pullman on their way back home to South Korea. They had been on sabbatical for a year at Princeton University. While waiting for their return flight they stopped off in the Seattle area to visit classmates Todd Murray, Pete Gothro and Nelson Kabalo. Todd is a WSU Extension Educator in King County. Nelson is an inspector for Alaska Airlines. Pete is working for the US Food & Drug Administration, Mee Young (Gyeonggi Research Institute ) was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton, and Tae Ho is a scientist at the Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, Korea. It’s great to see our alums keeping their WSU connections alive and well.

End of Year BBQ ‐ May 2, 2008

Sally and Barb were the BBQ chefs this year for the end of year celebration.

Robert Swearingen with his major advisor, Dr. Gary Piper. Even though it was a windy day, we had fun any way.

PhD graduate, Ricardo Ramirez with his Advisor Dr. Bill Snyder, with son Emerson Snyder

Dr. Ricardo's family came all the way from New Mexico for this important event. With Ricardo is his brother, father, mother and sister.

Honors College Commencement – May 2, 2008

Steven Weaver is our only Honor’s College graduate this year. In the Fall Steven will begin his Master’s of Science program under Dr. Laura Lavine. Congratulations to Steven.

Steven with fellow Honor's College Graduate Robbie Cowgill.

Dr. Libby Walker, Interim Dean of the Honor's College & Sally Hasher, Entomology's Fiscal Tech.

Steven standing in the spotlight while his list of accomplishments are read by Dr. Carol Anelli.

Steven with his parents and brother Matthew. Matthew is a WSU Alum who works at the newspaper in Moses Lake, WA.

Dr. Carol Anelli with Provost Bob Bates who was the featured speaker at the Honor's Commencement.

CAHNRS Awards Banquet ‐ April 12, 2008


Our very own Barb Smith was the recipient of the Administrative Professional Employee of the year is shown here with Dr. Dan Bernardo, CAHNRS Dean. Barb’s family and friends were there to help celebrate her achievement.
Doug Walsh (WSU Prosser), John & Ruth Brown enjoy a pre-event visit.		Doug Walsh accepting the Team Interdisciplinary Award on behalf of the Vineyard IPM Team. Team members included Gary Grove, Holly Ferguson, Sally O'Neal, Tim Waters & Jeff Lunden

John Brown waits to receive his award for the Individual Integrated Award for high quality scholarly accomplishments that demonstrate integration of teaching, research and/or extension programs.

Cougar Pride Days – March 30, 2008

Melissa Gaver-Wainwright pulling weeds and planting posies.

Barb Smith and our custodian Pat making a clean sweep of things.

Andrew Rodstrom and Carolee Armfield working hard.

The whole gang from both Food Science & Human Nutrition and Entomology working hard.

President Elson Floyd stopped by to see what we were doing and brought us water bottles.

It’s those wild and crazy guys Andrew Rodstrom and Sam Hapke.

Academic Showcase ‐ March 28, 2008

Chair & Professor Richard S. Zack with his poster.

Sally O’Neal explains her poster to Dr. Zack.	Wily Award Co‐winner Andrew Rodstrom shows off his poster.	Dr. Carol Anelli and Kimberly Green.
ARC Director Ralph Cavalieri and CAHNRS Dean Dan Bernardo with another of our Posters.	Adjunct Faculty member Ekaterini Riga, WSU Prosser with her poster	Doug Walsh, WSU Prosser, with Dr. Linda Kirk Fox & Dr. John Winder CAHNRS Extension Administrators.
Tim Waters, WSU Extension Agent shows off his Research on alternative crops. Tim received both his BS & MS in Entomology at WSU.	Holly Ferguson, WSU Prosser, shows off her work on pollinator protection.	Poster by Dave Bragg, Diana Roberts, Kirk Tetrickand Terry Miller.
	Wiley Expo Co‐winner Ashfaq Sial with his Power Point Presentation. Ash also won an ESA award with this presentation.

Poster done by Carol Anelli and Richard Law. Dr. Anelli is an Entomology Faculty member and has a partial appointment with the WSU Honors College.

E. Paul Catts Memorial Lecture Event – March 20, 2008

This year’s guest speaker was Dr. Dale H. Clayton, Biology Dept. at University of Utah. In addition to the lecture on March 20th, Dr. Clayton made time to visit one‐on‐one with faculty and students as well as paying a visit to the University of Idaho. He also presented a seminar titled: “The ecological basis of coevolutionary history: A tale of two feather lice” on Friday, March 21.