More than 60 graduate students from Texas Tech’s Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources will gather on Thursday, Oct. 9, for the college’s annual Graduate Student Research Poster Competition, an event designed to showcase student research across agriculture, natural resources and related fields.
The competition, scheduled from 1 to 5 p.m. at the university’s International Cultural Center, will feature presentations on a broad range of topics, underscoring the college’s emphasis on cross-disciplinary research.
The breadth of research presented at the poster competition is a testament to the integrated, trans-disciplinary scope of research in Davis College, said Darren Hudson, the college’s associate dean for strategic initiatives and assessment. The students are heavily contributing to solving important problems in agriculture, resources and landscapes.
For many participants, the event offers more than just an academic exercise. Students gain experience distilling complex research into accessible presentations for the public, while also learning to network across fields and disciplines.
“We believe this adds tremendous value to their experience as students as well as showcases some of the cutting-edge research in Davis College,” Hudson said.
Sandra Addo, program manager for career pathways at the college, said the competition highlights not only the quality of student research but also the ability to communicate it effectively to a non-specialist audience. Judges will include experts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Texas Tech faculty, postdoctoral researchers and advanced graduate students.
Scholarships will be awarded to the top three posters in four categories. A full list of Davis College graduate students scheduled to present has been released by the college. They include:
Crop & Livestock Production Systems
- Mayank Bangari | Structural and Biomechanical Basis of Stem Lodging in Grain Sorghum Under Different Water Regimes
- Esteban Penados Betancourt | Within-Carcass Relationships of Muscle, Fat, And Bone in The Round, Loin, Rib, And Chuck
- Jayme Czap | The Use of Bridges as Day Roosts by Bats (Order Chiroptera) in East Texas
- Luana Felizari | Hepatic Transcriptome Profiling Unveils Candidate Genes in Cattle with Liver Abscesses Under the Influence of Beef Genetics in Dairy Cattle
- Yusa Ichinose | Genomic Regions Controlling Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Grain Sorghum Backed by a Novel Protocol for Evaluating Pre-Harvest Sprouting Tolerance
- John Kohler | Evaluation of Various Adjuvants Tank-Mixed with Topramezone + Liberty ULTRA for Palmer Amaranth Control Postemergence
- Bianca Metallo | The Effect of Weaning Age on Physiological, Behavioral, And Performance Indicators of Welfare in Weaned Piglets
- Mahjabin Ferdaous Mim | Soil Microbiome Response to Drought under Conservation Management in Semi-arid Cotton Production Systems
- John Nials | Comparison of Synovex® Reimplant Programs for Beef Steers Fed More Than 200 Days-On-Feed
- Jeff Opena | Surviving the Stress: Using Solanum Lycopersicoides Chromosome Introgressions to Improve Drought Tolerance in Exotic Tomato Germplasm
- Andrea Caprini Sagirato | Reduced-Input Herbicide Programs for Cotton in West Texas
- Megan Singletary | Impact of Cover Crop Planting Rates and Termination Method on Early-Season Weed Suppression in Organic Cotton
- Gaganjot Singh Sodhi| Determining the Effect of Sorghum-Cotton Rotation on Crop Weed Dynamics
- Christian Stephens | Phenotypic Evaluation of Early-Generation Breeding Lines for Yield-Related Traits in Texas-Bred Rice Cultivar Presidio
- Paolo Tagaloguin | Gene Co-expression Networks Reveal Hubs and Transcription Factors in Rice Salt Stress Response
Economic & Social Systems
- Derick Adu | COVID-19 Impacts on Household Food Insecurity in Malawi
- Tuhinur Rahman Chowdhury | Effects of Recreational Marijuana Legalization on Agricultural Employment and Wage
- Clarissa Darby | Now Loading: Exploring Conversations About AI in Education One Post at a Time
- Brenda Mamani Escobar | The Impact of Sensory Evaluation and Information on U.S. Consumer Demand for Biofortified Lettuce
- Umesh Gautam | Implications of Mass Deportation for U.S. Vegetable Production
- Krysti Kelley | Feedback Engagement Across Developmental Stages: Comparing Pre-Student Teachers and Student Teachers Through Cognitive and Emotional Lenses
- Jana Owen | Navigating Undergraduate Research Perspectives: An Exploration of Undergraduate Researchers’ Motivations and Barriers Toward Pursuing Research
- Ivette S Morales | Nurturing Green Hearts: The Relationship Between Nature, Well-Being, and Environmental Concern
- Oluwabusolami Ogunmoyero| Effects of Abortion Restrictions on Health Outcomes
- Stanishkar Thevaruparambil Sunil | Implications of India's Non-Basmati Rice Export Ban on Global Rice Trade
- Emily Webberson | Evaluating Gilts’ Toy Preference and Their Effect on the Occurrence of Aggressive Behaviors in Gilts After Mixing
Plant, Animal and Human Health & Disease
- Md Mobinul Haque Adon | Genetic Variation in Chemical Composition of Corn Stalks and Ear
- Grace Akumu | Biocontrol of Listeria monocytogenes in hydroponics: Enhanced efficacy of Bacillus–Trichoderma harzianum bioinoculant consortia
- Madalyn Bower | Evaluating Canine Detection Threshold in Indoor vs. Outdoor Environments
- Erin Castelli | Efficacy of Lactic Acid Bacteria J19 and L28 in Reducing Listeria monocytogenes on Raw Pet Kibble
- Glenna Cupp | Effect of Soil Particle Size and Depth on Dogs’ Detection of a Buried Odor
- Avinash Dhar | Structure and Functional Potential of the Grassland Aerobiome
- Arieli Daieny Da Fonseca | Where Do Dogs Prefer to Play? The Influence of Surface Material and Temperature on Dog Behavior
- Beatriz Queiroz Dos Reis | Ruminal Papillae Characterization and Ruminal Metabolomics of Beef on Dairy Heifers with Abscessed or Non-Abscessed Livers
- Ketzalzin Vazquez Hernandez | Surface Chemistry Modifications of Cellulose Nanocrystals as a Strategy to Tune Behavior in Polar and Nonpolar Media
- Beatriz Herrera | Comparison of the Physicochemical Profiles of Cotton, Hemp, and Bacterial Microfibrillated Cellulose towards Tissue Engineering
- Ricardo Martinez | Validation Study for Hypercell PCR Platform through the Detection of Listeria Monocytogenes in Environmental Samples in a Cheese Manufacturing Environment
- Fabien Matsiko | Efficacy of Postharvest Chemical Sanitizer Treatments on Salmonella Typhimurium in Hydroponically Grown Living Basil
- Diego Morais Moreira | Association of Severe Diarrhea and BRD with ADG, Feed Intake, Milk Replacer Refusal And Mortality, In Pre-Weaned Holstein and BxD Calves
- Lindsay Nakonechny | Examining veterinary Staff Professional Quality of Life and Its Association with Dog Handling
- Liza Rothkoff | Exercise Intensity and Duration Impacts on Gastrointestinal Temperature and Odor Detection Performance of Dogs
- Luis Salazar | Feasibility Assessment of Lotting and Sampling Methods for Pathogen Analysis of Chicken Tenders
- Rituparna Sonowal | To Chew or Not to Chew? Exploring The Influence of Scented Chew Toys on Puppy Chewing
- Bridger Sparks | Adipose Tissue Neuro-like Cell Profile Changes with Ketosis in Dairy Cows
- Muskan Tiwari | Transcriptomic Analysis of Arachis hypogaea L. to Identify Genes Conferring Resistance to Meloidogyne arenaria (Neal) Chitwood
Sustainable Ecosystems & Landscapes
- Shafaet Alam Abir | Synanthropic Corridor: Rethinking Human-Elephant Interactions Through Community Conservation in Northern Bangladesh
- Hannah Adams | Evaluating the Body Condition of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis) in Mountain Streams with and Without Invasive Brown trout (Salmo trutta)
- Khusboo Agrawal | Assessing the Natural Variability of Grain Sorghum Stubble for Value-Added Bio-Product Development
- Faith Alonge | Assessing the Efficiency of Wastewater-Derived Struvite in Enhancing Soil Phosphorus Dynamics Using Soil Incubation Assays
- Diego Arcelay-Sanchez | Effects of Wet and Dry Cycles on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Dynamics of Playa Lake Withing Agricultural Systems
- Fawzia Bhuiyan | Play with Playa: A Research Based Playground Design for Children Focusing on Their Learning Affordances and Cognitive Development Focusing on the Local Playa Ecology of Lubbock
- Taslima Chowdhury | Roots of Resilience: Bamboo as a Pathway to Sustainable Livelihoods
- Shataparna Das | Reviving Sylhet’s Forgotten Ponds: Pathways to Sustainable Urban Living
- Mehri Farnaz | Assessing the Performance of Designed Outdoor Spaces Adjacent to Academic Buildings in a Semi-Arid Campus: Student Preferences, Microclimatic Comfort, and AR-Based Design Simulation
- Jivan Gaire | Assessing the Challenges to Adopting Sustainable Agricultural Practices (SAPs) among Farmers in the Mountain Regions of Nepal
- Asifa Jamal | Integrating Nature-Based and Cultural Heritage Solutions for Coastal Resilience at Port Fourchon, Louisiana
- Ramneet Kaur | Enhancing Soil Water Retention with Soil Amendments in a Semi-Arid Region
- Han Khaing | Irrawaddy River: Adapting to Nature
- Derseh Limeneh | Optimizing Microwave-Assisted Fractionation of Value-Added Chemicals from Agricultural Residues
- Syeda Nasrin | Design of a Flatland Tea Research Institute in Bangladesh
- Elizabeth Neal | Evaluation of Cooked Color and Sensory Performance of Whole Muscle Steaks Under Nitric Oxide-Modified Atmosphere and Traditional Packaging Systems
- Amanda Newman | Effects of Roadways on Bat Activity and Distribution in East Texas
- Katherine Rollefson | Evaluation of Invasive Risk Models Using eDNA
- Simita Roy - Pronoy Chowdhury | Negotiating the Ecotone with Landscape Ecology Approaches to Manage Crop Pressures in Lauchara Forest, Bangladesh
- Anjana Chakkalakkal Sabu | Sorghum Stover Biorefining: Xylooligosaccharides as Immune-Modulating Feed Additives
- Reshma Panackal Shibu | Chitin Meets Nylon: A Bio-Bridge to Strength
- Teja Saddapalli | Polished Desalinated Produced Water - A Promising Irrigation Source for Semi-Arid Agriculture
- Shanila Saifullah | Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Extended Reality (XR) in Landscape: Exploring the Impact of Interactive Park Design on Young Adults’ Engagement, Learning, and Well-being
- Anagha Sunil | Nanochitin for Sustainable Herbicide Encapsulation
CONTACT: Sandra Addo, Program Manager - Career Pathways, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 742-2808 or sandra.addo@ttu.edu
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