News: Graduate Student

Three Minute Thesis – Uddhav Bhattarai wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition

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 Uddhav Bhattarai – BSE – $1000 (Presentation Title: Robot Laborers for Apple Crop Management) – won tie-breaker and […]

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

July, 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 […]

Behnaz Molaei receives the GPSA College Representative of the Year Award

March 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 […]

Behnaz Molaei is a 2021 Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner

December 6, 2021  |  San Diego, CA Behnaz Molaei is a 2021 Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner at the ASABE/IA 6th Decennial National Irrigation Symposium, Irrigation Show and Education Week, December 6-10, 2021, San Diego. Behnaz’s advisor is Dr. Troy Peters. For more information, please visit the ASABE, 6th Irrigation Show and Education Week website.

FEC Club wins the 2021 GPSA Excellence Award for Registered Student Organizations (RSO)

  The Graduate Student and Professional Organization (GPSA) at WSU has voted to present the 2021 GPSA Excellence Award to the FEC club. The Food and Engineering Club is comprised of graduate student members from the Food Engineering program and one faculty advisor (Dr. Shyam Sablani). These students conduct research in advanced thermal and non-thermal […]

Three Minute Thesis – Femi Peter Alege wins second place overall in the WSU wide competition

After winning the CAHNRS 2021 3MT competition, Femi Peter Alege, a doctoral student in WSU’s Biological Systems Engineering program, went on to place second and win a $1,500 travel grant in the overall University-wide 3MT competition. “Congratulations, Femi, on your second place in the university Three Minute Thesis competition.  You represented CAHNRS very well and […]

2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award – Congratulations!

May 9, 2019  |  Pullman, WA The team of Qin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Long He, Yaqoob Majeed, Matthew D. Whiting and Manoj Karkee have been selected to receive a 2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award. This group will be honored at the General Session Recognition Program during the ASABE Annual International Meeting on July 8th, 2019 […]

2019 PSIFT Student Achievement Awards

May 7, 2019  |  Seattle, WA 2019 Student Achievement Awards for the Puget Sound Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (PSIFT). Awards were presented to BSE graduate students at the annual meeting for the Puget Sound IFT on May 7, 2009 at Elliot Bay Public House and Brewery (Seattle, WA). Awards were given in […]

Indonesian Fulbright Scholar studying biofuels at WSU Tri-Cities, PNNL

Apr 9, 2019 |  WSU Insider Fulbright scholar Fitria is using her educational experience at Washington State University Tri-Cities and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to find new and improved ways of creating successful biofuels and bioproducts. In her home country of Indonesia, Fitria, who goes by one name, is a team member and former project […]