2024 Graduate Student Awards
Animal Sciences Graduate Student Awards - 2024

Maha Abdelhaseib
2023-2024 College of Agriculture Excellence in Teaching Award

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

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


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


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


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


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

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

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