January 31stKen Eastwell, a professor in the Washington State University Department of Plant Pathology based at WSU's Irrigated Agriculture Research and Extension Center in Prosser, has been appointed director of the Clean Plant Center of the Northwest.
May 16thDr. Liz Thach MW, of Sonoma State's Wine Business Institute, becomes the first female on the West Coast to achieve the distinction of Master of Wine.
August 25thRay Johnson, one of California's most admired wine educators and industry experts, has been named to head Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute.
June 16thDr. Neil Shay, now the head of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida, has accepted an offer to become the Oregon Wine Research Institute's first director.
March 8thGary Grove, Washington State University professor of plant pathology, will receive the American Phytopathological Society Excellence in Extension Award.
January 14thThe Board of Directors of the New England Culinary Institute has announced the appointment of Robert (Skip) Myers, PhD, as the college's new president.