2025 Graduate Student Awards

Animal Sciences Graduate Student Awards - 2025

Maha Abdelhaseib

Maha Abdelhaseib

Book-Harmon Leadership Scholarship

Robert Cassens Mentor Scholar Award from the American Meat Science Association

Yuechi Fu

Yuechi Fu

2025 LOUJA Award - "Effects of maternal dietary live yeast supplementation on piglet intestinal development and proteome profiles of sow milk and piglet jejunal mucosa."

2025 Midwest ASAS Young Scholar Award

Stetson Herzog

Stetson Herzog

2025 LOUJA Award - "Effect of ruminally protected lysine on growth and nitrogen balance of grain-finished beef cattle fed diets of decreasing protein concentration."
Ayooluwa Ojo

Ayooluwa Ojo

2025 LOUJA Award - "Genome-wide association study of mature cow weight in American Angus cattle."
Artur Rocha

Artur Rocha

2nd place Graduate Student Poster Competition Ph.D. I - 2025 American Society of Animal Science (ASAS) Annual Meeting
Isabela Santos

Isabela Santos

1st place at Tri-State Dairy Conference - “Video analytics as a tool for measuring total mixed ration uniformity on dairy farms for her research presentation."
Jenna Schober

Jenna Schober

2025 LOUJA Award - "Serotonin and dopamine activity associated with aggressive feather pecking in Pekin ducks."
Hayley Sutherland

Hayley Sutherland

2025 LOUJA Award - "Parting the feathers: Examining the effects of northern fowl mites on cage-free laying hen welfare."
Saud Rehman

Saud Rehman

2025 LOUJA Award - "Assessing pork spoilage using meat exudate microbial and metabolomic signatures."