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Three Minute Thesis – Austin Gluth wins the Tri-Cities 3MT Competition (3/8/2023)

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On behalf of Dr. Garcia-Perez, we would like to congratulate Austin Gluth for winning the Tri-Cities 3MT Competition that took place yesterday! The competition had 7 participants and four of them were our BSE graduate students:

– Austin Gluth (advisor Dr. Bin Yang)
– Renan Stefanini Lopes (advisor: Dr. Birgitte Ahring)
– Budi Harahap (advisor: Dr. Birgitte Ahring)
– Rongge Zou (advisor: Dr. Hanwu Lei)

 

Thank you, ALL, for representing our BSE department!

Congratulations, Austin, and good luck at the CAHNRS and University level competitions!

 

Three Minute Thesis – Jake Schrader (PhD) and Kesevan Veloo (MS) win the BSE Competition

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Photo of Kesevan Veloo - Winner of MS category
Kesevan Veloo – Winner of MS category
Photo of Kesevan Veloo - Winner of MS category
Jake Schrader – Winner of PhD category

On behalf of Dr. Manuel Garcia-Perez, we want to thank Kesevan, Jake, Austin, Samrat, Renan and Milton for participating in BSE’s 3MT Thesis Competition! Also, a big thanks to our faculty judges and the audience!

Kesevan Veloo moves on to the CAHNRS competition in the MS category.

The winners in the PhD category moving on to the CAHNRS competition are Jake Schrader, Austin Gluth and Samrat Dahal.

 

Congratulations to All!!!

 

The following awards will be deposited into each student’s account.

Name                              Advisor Rank Award
Kesevan Veloo   Dr. Sindhuja Sankaran #1 MS   $200
Jake Schrader     Dr. Lav Khot #1 PhD $200
Austin Gluth       Dr. Bin Yang #2 PhD $150
Samrat Dahal     Dr. Joan Wu #3 PhD $100

 

 

AgAID Digital AgAthOn 2023 – Hackathon

Stewart Bohnet

February 2, 2023 | WSU Insider

Photo of AgAID Digital AgAthOn 2023Almost 200 students from around the U.S. had the chance to work on two challenges for the agricultural industry as part of the NSF/USDA-NIFA-funded AgAID Institute’s Digital Agathon. The event was held on the Washington State University Pullman campus as well as in Corvallis, Oregon and Merced, California.

A huge thanks goes to  Drs. Kirti Rajagopalan and Sandhuja Sankaran for their role in this event (organizing, logistics, training, mentoring, and judging). Congratulations to all our BSE students across the campuses who participated and stayed competitive in this event.

A special congratulations to: Bhupinderjeet Singh and his team on winning the second prize for the water challenge competition!

And to Srikanth Gorthi and his team for winning the fourth prize in the labor challenge!

Mark Schrader places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022

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Mark Schrader presents

Jake Schrader ( PhD Student of Lav Khot, Agricultural Automation Engineering) is shown presenting in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition during the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Houston, Texas, 2022.

Jake placed in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition within the Machinery Systems technical community for his work entitled,“Thermal analysis of heated spray and implications for agricultural spray technologies”.

He will receive a $250 prize check for his presentation.

Behnaz Molaei places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022

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Dr. Behnaz Molaei (former PhD Student of Troy Peters, LAWREE) is shown presenting in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition during the ASABE Annual International Meeting in Houston, Texas, 2022.

Dr. Molaei placed in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition within the Machinery Systems technical community for her work entitled, “Investigating Practical Artificial Hot and Cold Reference Surfaces for Improved ET Estimation using the UAS-METRIC Energy Balance Model”.

She will receive a $250 prize check for her presentation.

 

 

Behnaz Molaei receives the AFW’s Karen P. Depauw Leadership Award

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Behnaz Molaei wins the The Karen P. DePauw Leadership AwardAFW’s 2022 Karen P. Depauw Leadership Award has been given to Behnaz Molaei
April 11, 2022. Pullman, WA

Behnaz Molaei just won another leadership award: “The Karen P. DePauw Leadership Award” from the Association for Faculty Women (AFW) and the Graduate School. The award has been given during a special ceremony on April 7.

The Karen P. DePauw Leadership Award (for doctoral candidates) was created in honor of Dr. DePauw’s service to WSU in 2003 to give recognition to doctoral candidates that demonstrate evidence of leadership skills and/or university involvement.

Huge Congratulations to Behnaz and her proud advisor/mentor Dr. Troy Peters!!

This story has been twitted by Drs. Chilton, DePauw and Schulz:
https://twitter.com/kpdepauw/status/1512067877947334658?s=20&t=ax-hPsZrhfByUuL_PdNV8A

 

 

 

Behnaz Molaei receives Graduate Student Leadership Award from CAHNRS Academic Programs

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Photo of Behnaz MoleiCAHNRS Academic Programs
April 5, 2022. Pullman, WA

Graduate students are presently afforded multiple opportunities to be recognized for outstanding academics or scholarship. In contrast, there are few opportunities for them to be recognized for their leadership.

The College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences Graduate Student Leadership Award recognizes and celebrates graduate students who have demonstrated leadership that has positively impacted their unit, college, campus, or wider community. The award is not just for longstanding leaders; it is reserved for those who made significant positive contributions or improvements to the operations and functions of these programs, initiatives, or organizations. The winner receives a $1,000 award.

CAHNRS Academic Programs announces that Behnaz Moleai has been chosen to receive the 2022 Graduate Student Leadership Award.

Behnaz’s advisor is Dr. Troy Peters.

 

 

Three Minute Thesis – Uddhav Bhattarai wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition

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Photo of Uddhav Bhattarai

Uddhav Bhattarai has won the PhD CAHNRS 3 Minute Competition. He will compete at the WSU wide competition.

Congratulations Uddhav and Good Luck during the next phase!!

CAHNRS 2022 – 3 Minute thesis Results

 

 

PhD

  1. Uddhav Bhattarai – BSE – $1000 (Presentation Title: Robot Laborers for Apple Crop Management) – won tie-breaker and will advance to the University-level competition.
  2. Ramesh Sahni – BSE – $1000 (Presentation Title: Fixed spray system: Every drop to the drop)
  3. Sudha Upadhaya, Plant Path – $500 (Presentation Title: Can a picture save thousands of plants?)

Masters

  1. Em Rendleman, Entomology – $1,000 (Presentation Title:Experimental Varroa Mite Treatment in the European Honey Bee Apis Mellifera)
  2. Srijana Shrestha, Horticulture – $500 (Presentation Title: Professional Development Training for Soil-Biodegradable Plastic Mulch (BDM))
  3. Noah Willsea, Horticulture – $250 (Presentation Title: Retractable netting reduces sunburn risk while maintaining red color in apples)
  4. Jasmine Richman, Animal Sciences – $250 (Presentation Title: Investigating the activin receptor signaling pathway as a key regulator ofmuscle grown following whole genome duplication events)

 

Uddhav Bhattarai is a finalist for best oral presentation at ASABE 2021

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Photo of Uddhav BhattaraiJuly, 2021 | Pullman, WA

Uddhav Bhattarai placed in the ITSC community competition for the presentation titled “Simplifying Apple Flower/Fruit Counting: A Weakly Supervised Approach”.

Congratulations to all of the finalists of the ASABE Student Oral/Poster Presentation Competition, held during the 2021 Annual International Meeting.

Each finalist received a $250 prize check. For more information on the competition, please visit ASABE’s website: https://asabe.org/Poster.

 

 

 

Behnaz Molaei receives the GPSA College Representative of the Year Award

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Photo of Behnaz MolaeiMarch 23, Pullman, WA

Reanne Cunninghamm Chilton, the President  and Marwa Aly, Executive VP and Budget Chair of the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) at WSU announces that Behnaz Molaei has been awarded the GPSA College Representative of the Year Award.

She is being recognized as an execeptional college representative and chair of the awards and scholarships committee.

GPSA is so happy to recognize Behnaz’s accomplishments by giving her this award.

Behnaz’s advisor is Dr. Troy Peters.