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Feb 26, 2020
Congratulations to Tu Huynh and Christian Vargas-Garcia! They were each awarded a Ohio Soybean Council Graduate Scholarship for 2020-2021. There are three scholarships of up to $5,000 each.
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Feb 19, 2020
Congratulations to both Kaylee South and Nathan Nordstedt for receiving the HCS Publication Award (PhD). Kaylee and Nathan will split the $500 award. Both were nominationed to the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Krauss Publication competition.
Nathan’s manuscript
“Identification of Pseudomonas spp. that increase ornamental crop quality during abiotic stress"
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Nov 22, 2019
At last week’s American Society of Agronomy annual meeting, Keeley Overmeyer took 3rd place for her oral presentation in the Applied Soybean Research community and Alyssa Lamb took 2ndplace for her poster in the Weedy and Invasive Plant Species community.
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Oct 25, 2019
The 2019 Horticulture and Crop Science Graduate Research Symposium held October 10th and 11th was an amazing event. There were 69 registered attendees, 2 guest speakers, 30 judges, 32 competition entries, and 6 non-competition presenters.
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Sep 24, 2019
Congratulations to Todd Peterson, who was selected as an American Society of Agronomy Golden Opportunity Scholar. The GO Scholars Institute matches undergraduates with scientist-mentors and encourages students to pursue careers in the agronomic, crop, and soil sciences. It is supported through the Agronomic Science Foundation. Todd is an undergraduate student in the Department of Horticulture and Crop Science.
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Jul 29, 2019
HCS PhD student, Katie D'Amico, received a 2018 USDA NIFE AFRI Predoctoral Fellowship. Katie's project proposal are below:
DNA methylomic profiling for the interrogation of aging and non-infectious bud failure in almond
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May 21, 2019
Yiyun Lin, a PhD student in Michelle Jones lab in Horticulture and Crop Science has been awarded a position in the BIO 2019 I-Corps Bio-Entrepreneurship Workshop and access to the 2019 BIO International Convention in Philadelphia in early June.
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May 14, 2019
HCS gradute students, Yiyun Lin, Katie D'Amico, and Matthew Willman won at the CFAES Annual Research Conference Poster Competition on April 22, 2019.
Yiyun Lin
1st place in Doctorate category
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May 13, 2019
PhD sudent Yiyun Lin was selected to be one of three Altman Family Scholars. The Altman Family Scholarship was created in 2015 by Ken and Deena Altman—owners of Altman Plants—as one of numerous efforts supported by the couple to improve education and research for the industry. Ken Altman has been actively involved in AFE’s Education and Scholarship Committees, and has served on the AFE Board for more than a decade, currently in an Emeritus status.
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Apr 25, 2019
On April 12, 2019 HCS graduate student Nathan Nordstedt was awarded the Outstanding Graduate/Professional Student Leadership Award from the Office of Student Life. The Outstanding Graduate /Professional Student Award is among the highest honors conferred to graduate and professional students. This award recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions in leadership and service outside their academic program. Students should also have demonstrated the ability to balance scholarship with their leadership and involvement.
