Drs. Chad Stahl, Tom Lawlor, and Li Ma
The Department of Animal and Avian Sciences held the 32nd Annual Symposium on May 22. This full-day event showcased our department's ongoing research as presented by our graduate students and postdocs. The keynote speaker was Dr. Tom Lawlor, Executive Director of Research and Development for Holstein Association, USA. Dr. Lawlor’s talk was entitled “Transferring Science into Practice: Uptake of genomic information in the dairy industry.” Graduate students and postdocs competed throughout the day with posters and oral presentations. Many thanks to our speaker and the other guest judges: John Cole, Erin Connor, Kristen Gaddis, Robert Li, George Liu, and Jonathan Moyle. Here are this year’s winners:
Outstanding Ph.D. Student
Latisha Judd
Outstanding Masters Student
Kristina Davis
Staff Member of the Year
Michael Mobley
Graduate Student Poster Award
First Place: Ian Chambers
Second Place: Kristen Brady
Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award
First Place: Jicai Jiang
Second Place: Rini Pek
Research Assistant/Postdoc Poster Award
First Place: Wei Zhang
Second Place: Meghan Maguire
Research Assistant/Postdoc Oral Presentation Award
First Place: Karyn Jourdeuil
Second Place: Jaewook Chung
Shaffner Award for Research in Poultry
First Place: Chaitra Surugihalli
Second Place: Ronique Beckford
