Graduate Symposium Winners

3MT Competition

First Place. Amna Ghani, Entomology
Incorporating sweet alyssum flowers to enhance the biological control of diamondback moth in brassica fields of southeastern U.S

Second Place. Pratima Poudel, Plant & Environmental Science
Integrating cover crop functional trait diversity as a strategy to improve for climate resilience and soil health

Third Place. Gagandeep Kaur, Plant & Environmental Sciences
Stress-induced priming: Boosting amaranth plants’ resilience against glyphosate stress

MS Poster Competition

First Place. Nikolas Berg, Applied Economics & Statistics
Commodity diversification and its influence on technology adoption: Evidence from livestock  producers in the Southeastern U.S.

Second Place. Jasanmol Singh, Agriculture
Estimation of aboveground biomass in bermudagrass using field robotics

Third Place. Annie Bruno, Plant & Environmental Sciences
Can Pierce’s disease-resistant grapevine cultivars perform well under drought stress?

PhD Poster Competition

First Place. Walker Spivey, Plant & Environmental Sciences
Unlocking the potential of open-pollinated maize: genetic and phenotypic evaluation of
heirloom corn varieties for specialty food products

Second Place. Clare Escamilla, Plant & Environmental Sciences
Finding the right plants for floating wetlands deployed in brackish, coastal ponds

Third Place. Ebenezer Quandoh, Food, Nutrition, & Packaging Sciences.
Cell wall and membrane players reveal information on fresh-cut watermelon drip loss

PhD Poster

First: Pratima Poudel (PES, Advisor: Rongzhong Ye, Pee Dee REC)

Second: Simranpreet Kaur (PES, Advisor: Bhupinder Farmaha, Edisto REC)

Third: Christopher Pettengill (FEC, Advisor: James Anderson, Baruch Inst.)

PhD 3MT

First: Clare Escamilla (PES& FEC, Advisor: Amy Scaroni, Baruch Inst.)

Second: Ibrahim Busari (AgSci, Advisor: Deb Sahoo)

Third: Harleen Kaur (PES, Advisor: Guido Schnabel)

Masters Poster

First: Aradaryn Marsh (Eng.& Science Education)

Second: Garner Powell (PES, Advisor: Libby Cieniewicz)

Third: Meredith Tucker (PES, Advisor: Julia Kerrigan)

Masters 3MT

First: Shreeya Sharma (AVS, Advisor: Khaled Abdelaziz)

Second: Jasanmol Singh (AgSci , Advisor: Bulent Koc)

3rd - Christopher Thomas (AgSci, Advisor: Nathan Smith, Sandhill REC)

Three-Minute Thesis Presentations 

First: Jasmine Gill (PES, Advisor:  Vidya Suseela) 

Second: Zachary Jones (PES, Advisor:  Sachin Rustgi) 

Third: Rose Marie Somers (AgEd, Advisor:  Catherine DiBenedetto) 

M.S. Posters 

First: William Gura (PES, Advisor:  Guido Schnabel) 

Second: Kyle Smith (PES, Advisor:  Michael Plumblee) 

Third: Swabir Alhassan Musah (PES, Advisor:  Rongzhong Ye) 

Ph.D. Posters 

First: Sarah Holladay (PES, Advisor:  Michael Plumblee) 

Second: Joshua Holbrook (WFB, Advisor:  Kyle Barrett) 

Third: Ricardo St. Aime (PES, Advisor:  Sruthi Narayanan)