Our tools and technology have evolved, and our ideas are bigger and bolder. Yet the pioneer spirit that animates Washington State University's work for a resilient state and a productive, sustainable fruit industry has changed very little from our founding days.As the first Cashup Davis Family Endowed Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences, I have the honor of building on our institution’s 130-year legacy. (The endowment was created in 2019 by the family of Cashup Davis, a Palouse pioneer who homesteaded in the late 1880s in the Eastern Washington region that would become the breadbasket of the Pacific Northwest.)
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