2015

WSU researchers team up with an amateur apple detective to bring back heirloom fruit

Learn about the Hmong farming community’s Northwest legacy

Annual awards recognize student, faculty, volunteer achievement

The Altria group of companies has a strong American heritage stretching back to the 1800’s, with the creation of Phillip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates.  Ste. Michelle Wine Estates is a collection of distinctive estate wineries whose vineyards produce some of the best wines in the world.  The companies […]

A Harvard graduate, “Dr. Bill” was a humble and skilled surgeon in the Northwest and very much a WSU supporter.  A graduate of WSU, Margaret was an artist in all respects with rich roots in the state of Washington. In her family are generations of WSU graduates that extend to the hard-working homesteaders of Eastern Washington […]

Wallace  A. (Wally) Rehberg was raised in rural Montana where at the age of 14 he became solely responsible for a herd of 100 dairy cattle when the other young men went off to serve in World War II.  Wally later went on to attend Montana State University where he received his undergraduate degree in […]

Both Des and Sheila O’Rourke were long-time employees of WSU and saw students struggle financially to stay in school.  They seek to help such needy students. Award requirements: This fund shall be used to provide scholarships to undergraduates in the School of Economic Sciences.  First preference to students who are “need-based”, e.g. to prevent a […]

The Chinook District of the Washington State Federation of Garden Clubs has supported annual scholarship for Horticulture for over 20 years. The Chinook District Garden Club was federated in 1964 and belongs to the Pacific Region of National Garden Clubs, Inc., the largest volunteer gardening organization in the world.  You can learn more about this […]

Tim’s Cascade Style Potato Chips has been an avid supporter of WSU and CAHNRS, promoting agricultural studies and student programs.  By establishing this endowment, it is their hope and desire to continue these and other programs that will enable the food business community to hire and employ qualified technical staff to deliver world class food […]

This endowment was established in 1998 based on the last will and testament of Bernard A. Schons to support students in upper divisions studying wildlife and game or game bird habitat research.