Agronomy Graduate Student Awards 2024

Congratulations to the latest graduate students to receive awards for their work in Agronomy!

Axtell Award 2024

The John D. Axtell Memorial Fund in Plant Breeding & Genetics

▶  Amare Hailessilase

Mannering Award 2024

Dr. Jerry V. Mannering Award in Soil Conservation & Management

▶  Lynda Peter & Krista Zapata

Barber Award 2024

The Stanley A. Barber Memorial Scholarship in Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition

▶  Kwame Ampong

Dow AgroSciences Award 2024

The Dow AgroSciences Graduate Student Scholarship

▶  Binod Joshi & Hannah Levengood

Binod also received the SARE Graduate Student Grant - on of only three graduate students from Purdue to receive the award.

Hannah also received the 2025 Indiana Seed Industry Graduate Student Study Award, and won 2nd Place in the Student Oral Presentation Competition at the World Congress on In Vitro Biology in St. Louis.

Phillips Award 2024

The Marvin and Barbara Phillips Scholarship

▶  Erick Oliva Fuentes

Erick was also awarded the M.O. Pence Graduate Scholarship

Ohlrogge Award 2024

Alvin J. Ohlrogge Graduate Scholarship

▶  Juliana Rodriguez, Leonie Trabert, & Malena Bartabura Silva

Nyquist Award 2024

Dr. Wyman E. Nyquist Memorial Scholarship

▶  Samantha Barker & Henrique Feiler

Rothgeb Award 2024

The Wayne P. Rothgeb Memorial Scholarship

▶  Ana Morales Ona

Rothgeb Award 2024

GRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT

▶  JHACOLBY WILLIAMS

SEND Lab - Multifunctional Soil Probe Utility

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