Students from across Texas Tech's Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources had an opportunity to present their hard-won academic results on Thursday (Sept. 26) as part of an annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition. The program, which featured 57 presentations, was held in the Texas Tech Dairy Barn.
“The exciting thing about this competition from the Davis College standpoint is that it demonstrates the breadth of research taking place in core strategic areas,” said Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Assessment Darren Hudson. “The research cut across departmental lines and demonstrated real integrated research.”
“That is our goal at Davis College, and this is one demonstration of our success,” he said. “The competition provides a great opportunity for students to practice their presentation skills and learn how to answer questions and present to audiences that are not technical experts in their field of study.”
Presentation of winners were recognized during a reception and awards ceremony, said Program Manager for Graduate Student Recruitment Sandra Addo. As part of the program, scholarships were awarded to the top three student posters in each of five categories. The event’s judges included area experts, along with Texas Tech faculty, post-doctoral candidates and upper-level graduate students from a variety of agricultural backgrounds.
Among the Davis College winners (listed first through third place) were:
Crop & Livestock Production Systems
- Diego Aviles (NRM/PhD Student) First Place: Grazing Evaluation of Alternative Annual Forage Options for Water Limited Environments
- Oluwatola Adedeji (PSS/PhD Student) Second Place: Assessing Precision Water Management Using Satellite Remote Sensing”
- Katherine Pearson (NRM/MS Student) Third Place: Nutritive Value Dynamics of White-tailed Deer Browse Species in the Southern Cross Timbers and Prairies of Texas
Economic & Social Systems
- Krysti Kelley(AEC/PhD Student) First Place: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Time Spent in Student Teaching Activities and the Decision to Teach: A Longitudinal Study
- Kylie Kitten(AEC/MS Student) Second Place: ’I Don’t Even Know What Sustainability Is”: Describing West Texas Cotton Farmer Communication Preferences for Learning about Voluntary Sustainability Programs
- Jana Owen (AEC/MS Student) Third Place: The Story Behind the ‘Climate-Friendly’ Steak: Analyzing Consumer Engagement with Social Media Posts About Beef Sustainability
Plant, Animal and Human Health & Disease
- Avery Beimer(VS/MS Student) First Place: Tissue-Specific Gene Expression in Bovine GI Tract Following NSAID-Induced Barrier Dysfunction
- Mollie Green(AFS/PhD Student) Second Place: Marbling Is Associated with Increased Lipid Associated Macrophages in Beef Steers
- Lucas Caua Spetic Da Selva(AFS/PhD Student) Third Place: Efficacy of an Innovative Self-Vaccination Strategy for Erysipelas, and Ileitis in Swine
Sustainable Ecosystems & Landscapes
- Carolina Rocha (VS/MS Student) First Place: Effect of Essential Oil Blend Supplementation on the Health and Performance of Holstein and Beef on Dairy Calves During the Pre-Weaning Period
- Reshma Panackal Shibu(PSS/PhD Student) Second Place: Economically Feasible Methods of Production of Chitin Nanomaterials and Application in the Reinforcement of Plastics
- Umme Haque(LA/MLA Student) Third Place (Tie): The Impact of Nature-based Play Area on Play and Learning Behavior of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Rupak Karn(PSS/PhD Student) Third Place (Tie): Within-Field Cotton Yield Prediction using Time-series PlanetScope Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning
CONTACT: Clint Krehbiel, Dean, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or Clint.Krehbiel@ttu.edu
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