Student Awards

Student Awards and News

Charles Bency Appolon, Minji Hur, Jake McGwin and Amrit Pal have been awarded the 3-A Sanitary Standards, Inc. 2024 Dr. Ron Schmidt Student Travel Award.

Min Jeong Kang and Amrit Pal have received a 2024 UGA Graduate School Summer Research Grant, which enables doctoral students to conduct research in support of their dissertations.

Amrit Pal has also placed second in the Ag Abroad Photo Contest with a picture reflecting his views on international agriculture from College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Pratiksha Kotkar has won the University of Georgia’s Graduate School Master’s Fellow Award.

Jouman Hassan placed first in the Center for Food Safety Student Poster Contest and has received a UGA Graduate School International Travel Award.

Jashanpreet Kaur was recognized among the top 100 for the Student Employee of the Year Award and received the 2023 CAES World Food Prize Travel Award to attend the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue.

Blanca Ruiz recently presented a poster at the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) European Symposium in Geneva, Switzerland.

Ujjalpreet Dhatt won the IFT Carbohydrate Hackathon( Increasing Fiber in Snack Goods) and received the IFT Feeding Tomorrow Scholarship.

Harsimran Kapoor and Abbey Pollock have been awarded the IAFP 2024 Student Travel Scholarship.

Peter Chiarelli has been awarded the Section Service Award for Southeastern Section IFT, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, Southeastern IFT Outstanding Leadership Award Secretary & Expo Chair, and a USDA NIFA AFRI Predoctoral Fellowship.

Rawane Raad has received the UGA Graduate School Hugh Boyd Scholarship and the 2023 UGA Center for Teaching and Learning Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Sanket Vanare and Mackenzie Bui have placed in the top three the American Egg Board's The Eggcelerator Lab New Product Development competition's national finals.

The Food Science Club College Bowl team has won first in the Southeastern Regional Competition. The team will travel to IFT FIRST this summer to compete in the national competition. The team members are:  Sanket Vanare (Captain), Johana Lilian John Muthiah, Anthony Suryamiharja, Asa Cotton Young, Elizabeth Ward, Reid Robertson.