Paper Presentation Awards and Other Honors

Mohammad Salman Akram, MS, Computer Science and Applications
IBM Travel Grant, for paper presentation

Emily Aleshire, MS, Crop and Soil Environmental Science
American Society of Agronomy - Robert F. Barnes Graduate Education Award - 2nd Place

Ajay Bhootra, Ph.D. Business Administration
Graduate Research Award - 3rd Place, The Institute of Industrial Engineers

Padma Billam, Veterinary Medicine
Best Virology Graduate Student Presentation Award,
American College of Veterinary Microbiology, 84th Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases.

Kevin Bradley, Ph.D., Psychology
Student Paper Competition Award for his dissertation from the International Personnel Management Association

Will Chen, Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering
1st Place (with Rohith Kori, MS), Material Handling Student Design Competition, Council on Material Handling Education and Materials Handling Magazine

Undine Christmann, Ph.D. Veterinary Medical Science
Large Animal Internal Medicine Research Award for Paper Presentation at the 22nd Annual Forum of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, and award for poster presentation at the 100th American Thoracic Society Conference.

Kerri Cooper, Ph.D., Veterinary Medicine
1st Place award in Biosafety and Biosecurity from the Animal Health Institute Annual Meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases.

Jay Dickerson
Best Student Presentation, 2004 Virginia Water Research Symposium
George M. Dickert, MS, Career and Technical Education
Inducted into two honor societies: Omicron Tau Theta-Iota Chapter, for career and technical education professionals, and Alpha Tau Alpha, for agriculture education

Elena Dimitrova, Ph.D., Mathematics
Best Graduate Student Oral Presentation in Mathematics and Physics, Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science

Marc Fisher, Ph.D. Entomology
Young Scientists of the Year finalist, Bayer Corporation

Nga Hin Benjamin Fong, Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering
First place Award for Student Technical Paper, American Society of Quality, 58th Annual Congress and Best Paper Award in Manufacturing Systems, 13th Industrial Engineering Research Council of IIE

Dogan Gursoy, Ph.D., Hospitality and Tourism Management
Best Student Paper (with M. Erdem and M. Madanoglu) EUROCHRIE Conference.

Sara C. Haden, Ph.D., Psychology
Acceptance in the Sigma Xi Scientific Society

Shireen Hafez, Ph.D., Veterinary Medicine
Second Place for oral presentation at the World Association of Veterinary Anatomist and the American Association of Veterinary Anatomist.

Jody A. Hewitt, DVM
Awarded the Richard B. Talbot Medal, an award that honors the founding dean of the VMRCVM through the annual recognition of scholastic excellence in a graduating student.

Jon C. Holmes, Master’s, Accounting and Information Systems
Student Achievement Award from the Federation of Schools of Accountancy

Erica Husser, MS, Human Development
The Peggy Lavery Gerontology Research and Professional Development Award, Center for Gerontology

Jihad Ibrahim, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering
Elected to the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest all-discipline honor society.

William A. Kerler III, Ph.D., Accounting and Information Systems
Pamplin College of Business Graduate Teaching Award

Rohith Kori, MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering
1st Place (with Will Chen, Ph.D.), Material Handling Student Design Competition, Council on Material Handling Education and Materials Handling Magazine

Benjamas Kutintara, Ph.D., Apparel, Housing and Resource Management
Dissertation of the Year Award-Second Place, National Research Council of Thailand

Timo Lorenzen-Schmidt, Master’s in Architecture
Crystal Award, graduate thesis award presented by the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center

Melih Madanoglu, Ph.D., Hospitality and Tourism Management
Best Student Paper (with M. Erdem and D. Gursoy) EUROCHRIE Conference.

Matthew Mastropaolo, MS, Biology
Outstanding Graduate Oral Presentation, American Society of Microbiolgy

Sharonda Meade, Ph.D. Veterinary Medicine
Best Graduate Student Paper Award, 76th Northeastern Conference on Avian Diseases.

Mark Pierson, Ph.D., Mathematics
Induction into two honor societies: Phi Kappa Phi Interdisciplinary Honor Society and Pi Mu Epsilon, Mathematics Honor Society

Manisa Pipattanasomporn, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
Doctoral First Award, District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies

Evan Offstein, Ph.D., Business Management
Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, Academy of Management’s Human Resource Division, and Best Concept Paper, American Society of Competitiveness

Kunsoon Park, Ph.D., Hospitality and Tourism Management
Graduate Prize, Darden Restaurants Foundation.

Sharon D. Rogers, Ph.D., Human Development
Outstanding Gerontology Doctoral Student Award,
Virginia Association on Aging

Robin N. Romanus, Ph.D., General Business, Accounting
Pauline Corn Graduate Teaching Award

Alexa Rosypal, Ph.D., Veterinary Medical Science
Best Student Paper, 2004 presentation award at the American Association of Veterinary Parasitologists; and Second Place student presentation award at the 2004 Southern Conference on Animal Parasites.

Eric J. Ruggiero, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
2004 Adaptive Structures Graduate Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Jignesh Sheth, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering
Invited Oral Presentation, American Chemical Society, Graduate Research Symposium

Michelle Soupir, Ph.D., Biological Systems Engineering
Second Place in Master’s Paper Category, American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Akiko Suzuki, Master’s in Architecture
Crystal Award, graduate thesis award presented by the Washington Alexandria Architecture Center

Sarah Taylor, MS, Apparel, Housing and Resource Management
Refereed gallery competition award by the International Textile and Apparel Association

Meredith Upchurch, Master’s in Landscape Architecture
National Low Impact Development Student Design Competition-2nd Place (with Laurie Schween and Kate Belski), Environmental Protection Agency and University of Maryland.

Amy (Hui-Shan) Wang, Ph.D., Veterinary Medicine
Young Investigator Award, Society of Toxicologic Pathology and Bern Schwartz Student Travel Award

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