2014-2015 Awards
DEPARTMENT AWARDS:
Anheuser-Busch Company Scholarship:
MICHAEL JOSEPH
Ingredion Outstanding Graduate Students Award:Ph.D. Student: KYLE PROBST
MS Student: ABHAY PATWA
Rene Buhler Memorial Scholarship:
JENNIFER FREDERICK
Cain Land and Grain Value Added Agriculture Scholarship:
Ph.D. Student: JOHNNY WILSON
MS Student: GRACE BOKELMAN
Ming Long-Liao & Paul A. Seib Achievement Award:
YIXING ZHANG
Lola Lee Jackson Animal Welfare Travel Award
DEANNA SCHEFF
KALIRAMESH SILIVERU
Majel MacMasters Memorial Award
YADHU GURAGAIN
Dr. C.E. Walker International Graduate Student Fellowship:
Ph.D. Student: ZHENHUA SUN
MS Student: JINGWEN XU
Paul A. Seib Graduate Student Fellowship
MENG XUE
NON-DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS:
2015 Entomology Society of America North Central Branch Meeting, 1st place PhD Student Ten-Minute Paper Competition: JENNIFER FREDERICK
2015 Kansas City Division of IFT Outstanding PhD Graduate Student Award: DEANNA SCHEFF
2015-2016 Presidential Doctoral Scholarship: ROGER COCHRANE
2015 Center for Sustainable Energy-Energy Symposium, People's Choice Award: YADHU GURAGAIN
The International Coordinating Council Scholarships: KALIRAMESH SILIVERU, MARIO ANDRADA
2015 K-State Research Forum, Agricultural Sciences Oral Presentation: 2nd Place: ANALENA MANBECK
The Effect of Low Bloom Gelatin on the Physical Properties of Pet Food
Research and the State, 12th Capitol Graduate Research Summit: Research and the State involved 37 participants from five colleges and 15 departments. Three Grain Science & Industry students were chosen to present at the Capitol Graduate Research Summit in February 2015 in Topeka.
YADHU GURAGAIN, doctoral student in grain science for "Evaluation of sorghum and its mutants for efficient grain and biofuels production." Faculty mentor: Praveen Vadlani
GRACE BOKELMAN, master's student in grain science for "Evaluating the use of long-term conditioning or extrusion to
extract nutrients from low energy feedstuffs in finisher pigs." Faculty mentor: Cassie Jones
ROGER COCHRANE, master's student in grain science for "Effectiveness of various chemical mitigation strategies on post-processing contamination of PEDV in feed and feed components." Faculty mentor: Cassie Jones
North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program grant: JENNIFER FREDERICK, Faculty member Dr. Bhadriraju Subramanyam
ASAS Annual Meeting, JAM Companion Animal Program winner of oral presentation competition: ALAINA MOONEY
ASAS Annual Meeting, JAM Companion Animal Program winner of poster competition: ANALENA SIMMONS
IFT Annual Meeting and Expo, Third place-Graduate Poster Competition: DEANNA SCHEFF
IFT Kansas City Section Ph.D. Graduate Scholarship recipient: DEANNA SCHEFF
DGTC Distillers Grains Technology Council Scholarship:
KALIRAMESH SILIVERU
K-State Alumni Association Graduate Student Award for Service & Leadership:
KYLE PROBST
KSURF Stipend Supplement for Innovation Excellence:
JENNIFER FREDERICK
Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Student Scholarship:
Ph.D. Students: ORELIA DANN and DEANNA SCHEFF
MS Student: ROGER COCHRANE
K-State International Coordinating Council Scholarship
YADHU GURAJAIN
AACC International Engineering & Processing Division Best Student Paper Award:
PAVAN HARSHIT MANEPALLI
AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship:
Ph.D. Student: OSCAR RAMOS
MS Student: JUHUI JEONG
Graduate Student Council Travel Award:
ABHAY PATWA
DEANNA SCHEFF
ORELIA DANN
SHERRILL CROPPER
KALIRAMESH SILIVERU
QI BIAN
JENNIFER FREDERICK
JUHUI JEONG
MIN JUNG KIM
HAIJING LIU
PAVAN HARSHIT MANEPALLI
YINGNAN ZHAO
JONGGEUN SUNG
USDA National Needs Graduate Student Fellowship:
Ph.D. Students: JENNIFER FREDERICK AND DEANNA SCHEFF
MS Student: SARAH BYINGTON
Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre Ph.D. Fellowship:
BENJAMIN PLUMIER
K-State Research Forum:
Agricultural Sciences Oral Presentation- 2nd Place:
JOHNNY WILSON Research Topic: "Nutritional enhancement of dried distiller's grains with solubles vis sporoboomyces roseus fermentation."
Agricultural Sciences Poster Session- 2nd Place:
JENNIFER FREDERICK Research Topic: "Utilization of Hemicellulose-rich biomass feedstocks for the production of single cell oils."
Interdisciplinary Oral Presentation Session- 3rd Place:
KYLE PROBST Research Topic: "Characterizing the effectiveness of commercial heat treatments."
