News: Graduate Student

Doctoral Student Places First in Poster Competition

Poonam Bajaj, doctoral student in Biological Systems Engineering, has won first place in the student poster competition for the Product Development division of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2015. Poonam is conducting her research under the supervision of Dr. Shyam S. Sablani, professor of Biological Systems Engineering. Her research focuses on potential of utilizing […]

WSU Tri-Cities Announces Student Research Grants

July 10, 201 5| Tri-City Herald Five students at Washington State University Tri-Cities will receive grants as part of the Chancellor’s Summer Scholars Program at the university. The program allows students to be mentored by a faculty member and work on a project to prepare them for a career in a science, technology, engineering and […]

Congratulations PSIFT Scholarship Winners

Six students from BSE were awarded a PSIFT Scholarship this year. The Puget Sound IFT Scholarship Committee has selected Scholarship winners.  This was a tough year, we had our highest number of applicants and many very deserving students.  The Committee spent hours reading applications and supporting documents to make the decision. The awards will be […]

Student Awards

Congratulations Students! Innu Chaudhary, advised by Dr. Shulin Chen, and Muhammad Azeem Khan, advised by Dr. Claudio Stockle were awarded scholarships at the 2015 CAHNRS Fall Festival. The following students received an award from the GPSA’s Travel and Registration Grant Program for the summer 2015: Shuxiang Liu Carlos Zuniga Seyedehsanaz Jarolmasjed

Cuts to Manure Gas Earns Student Kudos

Ph.D. student, George Mathew Neerackal, won 2nd place at the Ron Sheffield Memorial Student Poster competition at the Waste to Worth conference, Seattle, WA; March 30-April 03, 2015. Poster Title: Manure pH Management for Mitigating Ammonia Emissions from Manure Flush Dairy Barns Advisor: Dr. Pius Ndegwa Dairy cows produce lots of manure. A WSU student’s […]

Student Earns Top International Sustainability Prize

WSU News | by Kate Wilhite, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University graduate student Sergio Baravalle is among 25 exceptional young scientists worldwide to receive an annual award for work in sustainable development. Baravalle is a Fulbright scholar working on his master’s degree in biological and agricultural engineering. […]

BSYSE 512 Poster Competition Winners

First Place:       Prashant Pokhrel (avg score 81.3) Second Place:  Muhammad Khan (avg score 80.8) Third Place:     Jose Martinez Fernandez (avg score 79.8) Congratulations to Prashant, Muhammad, and Jose for your exceptional poster presentations, and to the whole class for your good effort!

ASABE Conference Research Award

Congratulations to Jingjin Zhang! “I am very happy to announce that your paper entry to the Boyd-Scott Graduation Research Award competition was selected as one of the top three papers judged in the written portion of the PH.D. category competition.” An oral competition will follow this July in Montreal, Canada. Carol L. Flautt, Awards Administrator, […]

Graduate Student Award

Soil Science Society of America | Congratulations to Mr. Hossein Sadeghi as the recipient of the 2013 Graduate Student Award! Hossein is a Ph.D. candidate at Washington State University under the direction of Dr. Troy Peters in the Biological Systems Engineering Department. Hossein has been described by his advisor as “a brilliant and productive Ph.D. […]