Grad Student Awards Received - Previous Years
2011-2012 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008
2012-2013 Departmental Awards
Anheuser-Busch Fellowship: Hongzhou Huang
Rene Buhler Memorial Scholarship: Blossom Sehgal
Cain Land and Grain Value Added Agriculture Scholarship:
1 - Anne Rigdon
2 - Jonathan Wilson
Corn Products Intl.Outstanding Ph.D. Student – Lauren Brewer
Outstanding MS Student – Swathi Sree Kodavali
Ming-Long Liao/Paul Seib Graduate Student Achievement award: Hien Vu
Lola Lee Jackson Animal Welfare Foundation Fund Travel award:
1 - Yanjie Bai
2 - Yixing Zhang
Dr. Dick Hahn Distinguished Student Leadership Award: Sherrill Cropper
Dr. C.E. Walker International Graduate Student Fellowship: Moses Khamis
Dr. C.E. Walker International New Graduate Student Fellowship: Juhui Jeong
2012-2013 Non-Departmental Awards
2012-2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship - Sarah Gutkowski
2012 Outstanding Presentation of Entomological Research (Runner-up): Blossom Sehgal
2012 Best Student Paper Award: Natarajan Padmanabhan Engineering and Processing Division, AACCI Annual Meeting Title:
2012 AACCI Student Product Development Competition Second Place: Instant Sorghum Noodles Team: Oscar Ramos, Swathi Sree Kodavali, Moses Khamis, Anubha Garg Advisor: Dr. Praveen Vadlani
2012 Outstanding Paper Award Winner by the Corn Refiners Association: Navneet Grewal at the AACCI meeting in Hollywood, FL
BioEnvironmentalPolymer Society, outstanding student poster presentation award: Min Jung Kim
2012 Presidential Student Travel Scholarship Recipient: Blossom Sehgal North Central Branch Entomological Society
US Borlaug Fellowship to the Summer Institute on Global Food Security: Blossom Sehgal
US Borlaug Fellowship to the Summer Institute on Global Food Security: Mario Andrada
2012-2013 IFT Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship: Moses Khamis
Corporate Sustainabilty Symposium--1st Place Poster: Anne Rigdon
Richard Elmore Brown Graduate Student Teaching Award from the College of Agriculture: Andrew Mense
AOCS Honored Student Award & Presentation - Byung-Jun Ahn
AOCS Manuchehr Eijadi Award - Byung Jun (Kollbe) Ahn
2012-2013 AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Moses Khamis contributed by Kellogg R&D Graduate Fellowship.
2012-2013 AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Swathi Sree Kodavali contributed by AACCI Raymond J. Tarleton Fund
2012-2013 AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Hyma Gajula contributed by AACCI Bill Doty Graduate Fellowship
10th Annual Capitol Graduate Research Summit (CGRS)
1 - Michael Gibson Title: Physical and Processing Differences between Baked and Extruded Pet Foods
2 - Michael Joseph Title: Novel delivery mechanism for nutrition using sorghum based pre-cooked “beans”
2011-2012 Awards
2011-2012 Graduate Student Awards
Dr. C.E. Walker International Graduate Student Fellowship – Moses Khamis
Corn Products, International Outstanding PhD Graduate Student – Yanjie Bai
Corn Products, International Outstanding MS Graduate Student – Navneet Grewal
Ming-Long Liao/Paul Seib Graduate Achievement Award – Lauren Brewer
Majel M. MacMasters Memorial Achievement Student Award – Hyma Gajula
Cain Land and Grain Value Added Agriculture Scholarship - Liyan Chen, Adrian Martinez-Kawas
Anheuser-Busch Company Fellowship – Byung-Jun Ahn, Yixing Zhang
Rene Buhler Memorial Scholarship – Anne Rigdon
Lola Lee Jackson Animal Welfare Foundation Travel Scholarship - Hyma Gajula, Moses Khamis, Swathi Sree Kodavali, Kyle Probst
Non- Departmental Awards (2011-2012)
December Career Day, sponsored by PepsiCo and the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)- Kyle Probst
Gamma Sigma Delta, Honorary of Agriculture initiate - Adrian Martinez-Kawas
Gamma Sigma Delta, Honorary of Agriculture initiate - Paul Mitchell
2011-2012 AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Hyma Gajula contributed by AACC Intl. Milling & Baking Division M. Rella Dwyer Graduate Fellowship
2011-2012 AACC International Foundation Graduate Fellowship - Yanjie Bai
contributed by Anheuser Busch/Campbell Taggart Graduate Fellowship
2011 Kansas State University Research Foundation Doctoral Scholarship - Hongzhou Huang
2011-2012 I-STAR BioEnergy program - Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellowship(IGERT)- Kyle Probst
2011-2012 IFT Feeding Tomorrow Scholarship: Carbohydrate Division - Lauren Brewer
2011-2012 IFT Feeding Tomorrow Education Fund Scholarship - Yanjie Bai
2011 National Science Foundation through American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute- Byung-Jun (Kollbe) Ahn
2011 Konza and Manhattan Rotary Club Scholarship - Moses Khamis
2011 Kansas State University Gamma Sigma Delta Ph.D. Research Award - Hyma Gajula
2010-2011 Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Fellowship(IGERT)- Anne Rigdon
2010-2011 IFT Foundation Scholarship for outstanding commitment to food science education-Elisa Karkle
2010-2011 AACC International Foundation Graduate Scholarship - Yanjie Bai
2010-2011 AACC International Foundation Graduate Scholarship - Gabriela Rattin contributed by Kellogg R & D Graduate Fellowship
2010
Non-Departmental Awards
(2010)
AACCI Travel Award, Rheology Division Travel Award - Hyma Gajula
2010 Corn Refiners Association Outstanding Poster at AACCI, Savannah, GA - Yanjie Bai
58th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America - 1st Prize - Monika Brijwani
American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) - Food Product Development Competition - 1st place - Daniela Nath Oliveria (Grain Science) and Angela Dodd (Food Science)
18th Annual International Starch Convention - 1st place - Lauren Brewer
2009-10 Center for Sustainable Energy-1st place graduate assistantship poster competition - Camila Yoo
2009-10 Center for Sustainable Energy-3rd place graduate assistantship poster competition - Khushal Brijwani
2010-Timothy R. Donoghue Graduate Scholarship - Sherrill Cropper
Capital Graduate Research Summit, Topeka, KS - Moses Khamis
KSU Research Forum-Graduate Oral Research Competition-1st Place - Lauren Brewer
KSU Research Forum-Graduate Oral Research Competition-2nd Place - Monika Brijwani
Graduate Oral Research Competition Division I -Third Place at the 25th National MANRRS Conference (Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources & Related Sciences) - Lauren Brewer
2010 Distillers Grains Scholarship - Yonghui Li
2010-2011 Grain Science & Industry Award Winners
Dr. C.E. Walker International Graduate Student Fellowship - Gabriela Rattin
PhD Brabender Fellowship - Hyma Gajula
National Starch Outstanding PhD Graduate Student - Liming Cai
National Starch Outstanding MS Graduate Student - Xinyi (Abby) E
Ming-Long Liao/Paul Seib Graduate Achievement Award - Khushal Brijwani
Majel M. MacMasters Memorial Achievement PhD Student Award - Yanjie Bai
Majel M. MacMasters Memorial Achievement Masters Student Award - Mark Boatwright
Anheuser-Busch Company Fellowship - Juhyun (Camila) Yoo
Rene Buhler Memorial Scholarship - Adrian Martinez-Kawas
Lola Le Jackson Animal Welfare Foundation Travel Scholarship - Yanjie Bai
Normell Jhoe deMesa-Stonestreet
2009
2009 Grain Science and Industry Awards
MS Brabender Fellowship............................. ........... Daniela Nath deOlivera
National Starch Outstanding PhD Graduate Student.......... Nanjunda Ananda
National Starch Outstanding MS Graduate Student.................. Moses Khamis
Ming-Long Liao/Paul Seib Graduate Achievement Award.............. Liming Cai
Majel M. MacMasters Memorial Achievement Award................... Elisa Karkle
Anheuser-Busch Company Fellowship......................................... Yonghui Li
Rene Buhler Memorial Scholarship................................... Adam Fahrenholz
Lola Le Jackson Animal Welfare Foundation Travel Scholarship..Guangyan Qi
Melissa Pickett
College of Agriculture Richard E. Brown
MS Graduate Student Teaching Award.......... .................... Adam Fahrenholz
K-State Research Forum.......................................................... Melissa Pickett
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society - New Initiate ..........................Moses Kahmis
2008
2008 Graduate Student Awards
Brabender Fellowship – Sean Finnie, Melissa Pickett
Majel MacMasters Memorial Achievement Award - Lauren Brewer
Min Long Liao/Paul Seib Graduate Achievement Award – Yanjie BaiRene Buhler – Christopher Miller
National Starch Outstanding Graduate Student Award – Shiva Garimella, Yanjie Bai
Anheuser-Busch Co. Fellowship – Normell Jhoe DeMesa Stonestreet
Lola Lee Jackson Animal Welfare
