2024 Graduate Student Awards

Animal Sciences Graduate Student Awards - 2024

Maha Abdelhaseib

Maha Abdelhaseib

2023-2024 College of Agriculture Excellence in Teaching Award

2024 Graduate School Excellence in Teaching Award

Emmanuel Alagbe

Emmanuel Alagbe

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Optimizing sample size for accurate measurements and prediction equations for intestinal morphology in broiler chickens."

W.R. Featherston Early Graduate Career Award

Kayode Balogun

Kayode Balogun

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Porcine embryo development in Well of the Well culture dishes."
Brittney Emmert

Brittney Emmert

Predoctoral Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture AFRI Education and Workforce Development Program
Yuechi Fu

Yuechi Fu

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Maternal live yeast supplementation protects newly weaned piglets against lipopolysaccharide challenge by regulating immune-associated milk proteins."

W.R. Featherston Off-Campus Training Fellowship

Lester Nolasco

Lester Nolasco

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Effects of antimicrobial feeding on the ruminant gastrointestinal tract microbiome."
Jenna Schober

Jenna Schober

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Pekino semi-open water sources increase body weight and relative uropygial gland size but reduce body condition welfare scores in Pekin ducks."
Alyssa Smith

Alyssa Smith

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Fetal hypothyroidism dysregulates local hepatic and renal renin-angiotensin systems in a temporal manner."
Hayley Sutherland

Hayley Sutherland

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Bugging out: Northern fowl mite infestation levels and their relationship with cage-free laying hen welfare."
Isabel Turner

Isabel Turner

2024 LOUJA Award Winner - "Acute and chronic response to stress following weaning and transportation in the average piglet."
Hui Wen

Hui Wen

2024 Lauren Christian Graduate Student Award from the National Swine Improvement Federation (NSIF)