2025 Graduate and Undergraduate Expo Award Winners
On March 27, 2025, 27 undergraduate posters, 74 graduate research posters, and 9 postdoctoral posters were presented by graduate and undergraduate students, and postdocs from all academic units in the College of Agricultural Sciences at the 27th Annual Gamma Sigma Delta Research Expo. Awards totaling $9,300 were determined by 47 judges and presented at the College of Agricultural Sciences and Gamma Sigma Delta Celebration of Excellence Ceremony on April 3rd.
The Penn State Chapter, along with generous support from The Gerald T. Gentry Endowment for Graduate Education, The Evans Family Endowment and the College of Agricultural Sciences Graduate and Undergraduate Educational Offices, would like to recognize the following award winners:
Undergraduate Animal Systems
1st Place: Cydney Suber
2nd Place: Emily McGaffigan
Undergraduate Environmental-Related Systems
1st Place: Kirsten Smith
2nd Place: Caitlin Grabowski
Undergraduate Human Behavior and Social Systems
1st Place: Anna Gerstner
Undergraduate Microbiology & Microbiome Sciences
1st Place: Quinn Burnett
2nd Place: Miran Rezhan
Undergraduate Pathogen-Host Interactions
1st Place: Zachary Yenser
2nd Place: Clara Vargas Fenili
3rd Place: Nicolas Recinos-Baltodano
Undergraduate Plant Systems
1st Place: Amanda Jason
2nd Place: Charlie Colvin
Graduate Animal Systems
1st Place: Alli Jobe
2nd Place: Molly Friend
3rd Place: Ingrid Lara Bodin Fernandes
Graduate Food Systems
1st Place: Yashmita Grover
2nd Place: Rory Campagna
3rd Place: Ishita Gosh
Graduate Human Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st Place: Morgan Failla
2nd Place: Kripa Neupane
3rd Place: Rebecca Lim
Graduate Integrated Pest Management
1st Place: Ram Neupane
2nd Place: Richard Gonzalez
3rd place: Malachi Brought
Graduate Method & Process Development
1st Place: Sujata Chatterjee
2nd Place: Kelly Kosiarski
3rd Place: Riley Brooke
Graduate Microbiology & Microbiome Systems
1st Place: Tyler Chandross-Cohen
2nd Place: Theo Newbold
3rd Place: Auja Bywater
Graduate Modeling
1st Place: Camilla Valderrama
2nd Place: Edward Amoah
3rd place: Kittiphum Pawikhum
Graduate Molecular Biology
1st Place: Morgan Clemens
2nd Place: Jillian Hughes-Brown
3rd place: Santoshi Chaudhary
Graduate Pathogen-Host Interactions
1st Place: Anju Poudel
2nd Place: Mahendra Pawar
3rd place: James Abendroth
Graduate Plant Systems
1st Place: Caini Chen
2nd Place: Aline Novaski Seffrin
3rd place: Navdeep Kaur
Postdoctoral
1st Place: Santosh Sanjel
2nd Place: Eric Larson
3rd place: Arun Regmi
