Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences

The Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) is one of the ten colleges of Washington State University that offers undergraduate and graduate programs. Established as Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, the college started instructions on January 13, 1892. The college is in Pullman, Washington, and became a land-grant college after the passage of Morrill Act. The college provides education, research and services through fifteen academic departments, four research and extension centers, and thirty-nine county extension offices across the state of Washington. The college is known for apple production, grape growers and small grain genetics and breeding.[2]

Washington State University
College of Agricultural, Human,
and Natural Resource Sciences
TypePublic
Established1892
DeanKimberlee Kidwell (acting)[1]
Location
Pullman
,
Washington
,
U.S.
Websitewww.cahnrs.wsu.edu

Departments

The college is divided into fifteen departments and schools, which offer approximately twenty majors. They include:[3]

  • Department of Animal Sciences
  • Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design and Textiles
  • Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
  • School of Economic Sciences
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of the Environment
  • School of Food Science
  • Department of Horticulture
  • Department of Human Development
  • Department of Interior Design
  • Department of Landscape Architecture
  • Department of Plant Pathology

Research institutes, laboratories, and centers
Puyallup Experiment Station, 1912

In the fiscal year 2008-09, the Agricultural Research Center of the college was awarded more than $33.5 million of grants and contracts for funded agricultural research.[4] The Agricultural Research Centers includes 15 departments of the CAHNRS and the following institutes, laboratories, and Research centers:[5]

  • Agricultural Weather Network
  • Center for Precision & Automated Agricultural Systems
  • Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
  • Composite Materials and Engineering Center
  • Institute of Biological Chemistry
  • Long Beach Research and Extension Unit
  • WSU Mt. Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center
  • WSU Prosser Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center
  • WSU Puyallup Research and Extension Center
  • WSU Wenatchee Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center
  • WSU Pullman Plant Growth Facilities

References
  1. "College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences - Washington State University".
  2. "About". Washington State University.
  3. "Undergraduate Studies - CAHNRS Academic Programs". Washington State University.
  4. "CAHNRS Office of Research - Washington State University". wsu.edu.
  5. "CAHNRS Office of Research". Washington State University.


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