Agronomy Graduate Student Awards 2024
Congratulations to the latest graduate students to receive awards for their work in Agronomy!
The John D. Axtell Memorial Fund in Plant Breeding & Genetics
▶ Amare Hailessilase
Dr. Jerry V. Mannering Award in Soil Conservation & Management
▶ Lynda Peter & Krista Zapata
The Stanley A. Barber Memorial Scholarship in Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition
▶ Kwame Ampong
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.
The Marvin and Barbara Phillips Scholarship
▶ Erick Oliva Fuentes
Erick was also awarded the M.O. Pence Graduate Scholarship
Alvin J. Ohlrogge Graduate Scholarship
▶ Juliana Rodriguez, Leonie Trabert, & Malena Bartabura Silva
Dr. Wyman E. Nyquist Memorial Scholarship
▶ Samantha Barker & Henrique Feiler
The Wayne P. Rothgeb Memorial Scholarship
▶ Ana Morales Ona
GRADUATE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
▶ JHACOLBY WILLIAMS
SEND Lab - Multifunctional Soil Probe Utility