Students and education

Wainwright wins Van Alfen-MacDonald award

 

Fourth-year doctoral student Brooke Wainwright has received the Neal Van Alfen and James MacDonald Graduate Student Award. The award recognizes outstanding academic performance, service and leadership, and comes with a $7,500 grant.

Wainwright is a plant ecologist in the lab of Jennifer Funk, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences. The Van Alfen-MacDonald award is given by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Pokhrel’s passion for pistachio earns FFAR Rockey Fellowship

 

Graduate student Amrit Pokhrel has secured a place in the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellows program. He is one of 30 students across the United States and Canada this year to become an FFAR fellow.

FFAR’s Rockey Fellowship program is an opportunity for up-and-coming food and agricultural scientists to develop leadership and professional skills. Students will also receive two mentors from the foundation, which is a non-profit, public-private partnership established by the U.S. Congress.

Godbey and Shydlowski win at UC-wide conference

Two graduate students the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences — Mia Godbey and Maya Shydlowski — took first place in poster contests at the annual California Plant and Soil conference in Visalia, Calif., hosted by University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources and the California chapter of the American Society of Agronomy.