Michael Kahn to assume his duties as ARC Associate Director Jan. 1
He will partner with the director of the ARC to administer, lead, and report on research programs in the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences and Agricultural Research Center activities of other affiliated college.
Kahn, who has been with WSU for 28 years, has served as associate director of WSU’s Institute of Biological Chemistry since 1996. The Santa Fe, N.M., native earned a doctorate in biophysics from Stanford University and his bachelor’s degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology.
The Agricultural Research Center was created in 1891 as the Washington State Agricultural Experiment Station, it was formed under the provisions of the Hatch Act of 1887 to diffuse practical agricultural knowledge among the public through the state colleges. In Fiscal Year 2005-06, the center administered more than 300 research projects underwritten by $58.8 million in grants and appropriated funding.
