Internship and International Travel Combine to Launch WSU Undergrad's Career
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Working on the foundation for a new bio-diesel plant, doing feasibility studies, and learning Portuguese is exactly the kind of internship Washington State University senior Adele Durfey was looking for.
And she found it in Brazil, after thumbing through “The Furrow,” a John Deere publication.
“When I first got here, I didn’t know what to expect, but I’ve learned so many useful skills since I’ve been here,” said Durfey, who is a double major in international business and agricultural technology and management. Read more »
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Forestry Club Cleans Up
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The WSU Forestry Club has spent quite a few Saturdays cleaning up trees that were blown down by the recent weather events in Pullman. Read more »
Interns Wanted
CAHNRS and WSU Extension Marketing and News Services has openings in new media development and public relations. Learn more »
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National Rankings for Ag Sciences at WSU
We're number two--and number four, six, seven and eight! Researchers in the agricultural sciences at Washington State University are among the most productive in the nation, ranking in the top 10 in almost every ag-related discipline, according to statistics recently released by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Learn more about about the productivity of our world-class faculty.




