{"id":449,"date":"2026-02-23T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/?p=449"},"modified":"2026-02-23T07:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:45:11","slug":"wssa-conference-in-raleigh-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wssa-conference-in-raleigh-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"WSSA Conference in Raleigh, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- block -->\n<div class=\"custom-block-wrappper text-block stylized lite top-spacing-default bottom-spacing-default\">\n\n    <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-452 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-300x153.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-300x153.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-1024x524.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-768x393.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-1536x785.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-640x327.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026-1200x614.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/WSSA_labgroup_2026.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A large contingent of the Weed Research Laboratory attended the WSSA conference in Raleigh, NC from February 9-12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-450 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award-640x631.jpg 640w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Andre-award.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 155px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We want to congratulate Andre Araujo for placing 3<sup data-ogsc=\"\">rd<\/sup> in PhD poster competition. Students and faculty had plenty of opportunities to make new friends and network with industry and academic colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>It was also wonderful to catch up with previous students who graduated from the Weed Research Lab (Raven Bough, Neeta Soni, Mirella Ortiz and Eric Westra).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-451 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-640x853.jpg 640w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/02\/Franck-Eric-Raven-Neeta-and-Mirella-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 133px\" \/>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<!-- END block -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.agsci.colostate.edu\/weedscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}