College of Ag

Celebrating a century and a quarter, this university is still digging deep into the heart of Idaho’s agricultural future.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural Life Sciences has a new dean. Dr. Leslie Edgar moved to Moscow this summer from neighboring Washington State University,

Thanks to a gift from the J.R. Simplot Family Foundation the University of Idaho has established the school’s first endowed deanship.  The "J.R. Simplot Endowed Dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences" pays homage to the Idaho-based agribusiness company’s founder, the late J.R. Simplot, and ...

If you look to the skies above Pullman Monday, it won’t be a bird, it won't be a plane, but rather a giant apple.  The 80-foot Cosmic Crisp hot air balloon and its junior remote-controlled sibling will fly over Washington State University’s campus for a morning celebration of healthy eating and activity.  The Cosmic Crisp Da...

The University of Idaho’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences announced Tuesday Rachael Bickerton has been tapped as the College’s director of government and external relations, replacing Brent Olmstead, who retired last November.  Bickerton...

For the second year in a row, Washington State University topped the USDA for research and development expenditures.  In the 2017 federal fiscal year, WSU researchers spent $50.9 million of the USDA research and development funding committed to the university, leading more than 375 universities nationwide.  Th...

Oregon State University has named their new Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. Alan Sams comes to Corvallis from Texas A&M where he was the Associate Dean of the school's Ag department. Oregon State’s Ed Feser said they are very lucky to get someone of Sams' caliber. “He h...