{"id":672,"date":"2025-06-09T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/?p=672"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:39:43","slug":"inef-assistant-director-wins-faculty-award-through-cahnrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/2025\/06\/09\/inef-assistant-director-wins-faculty-award-through-cahnrs\/","title":{"rendered":"INEF assistant director wins faculty award through CAHNRS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>INEF Assistant Director For Agriculture, Extension, and Outreach Chad Kruger was recently named the recipient of the \u201cFaculty Administrator Award\u201d through the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be nominated by so many thoughtful and considerate friends and colleagues from across the College was truly humbling,\u201d Kruger said, \u201cI&#8217;m incredibly thankful for the people I get to work with on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his role with INEF, Kruger is the director of the Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, and has directed three of WSU\u2019s four Research &amp; Extension Center campuses over the past decade. Some of Kruger\u2019s work includes agriculture symbiosis, biofuels, and solar integration into agriculture production systems. More information about his work can be found by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/people-directory\/people\/wsu-profile\/cekruger\/\">Kruger\u2019s bio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cINEF is fortunate to have Chad as part of our leadership team. This award recognizes his ability to see big picture challenges and identify ways to create teams that work towards solutions,\u201d INEF Director Noel Schulz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about Kruger\u2019s award and the rest of the CAHNRS awards recipients, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cahnrs.wsu.edu\/article\/exceptional-cahnrs-faculty-and-staff-honored-at-2025-awards-ceremony\/\">awards website<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/people-directory\/people\/wsu-profile\/cekruger\/\">Kruger\u2019s bio.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attached photo taken by Angela Sams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#wsu #wsutc #inef #energy #cahnrs #agriculture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INEF Assistant Director For Agriculture, Extension, and Outreach Chad Kruger was recently named the recipient of the \u201cFaculty Administrator Award\u201d through the Washington State University College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsuwp.tricities.wsu.edu\/inef\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}