Ross Houston has successfully defended his thesis “Understanding lignin’s fast pyrolysis through examination of the thermolysis mechanisms of model oligomers.” Starting August 2023, Ross will be an Interdisciplinary General Engineer/Physical…
Dr. Houston!
Dr. Huihui Sun
Huihui Sun successfully defended her Soil Science Ph.D. The title of her dissertation was “Roles of Soil Pores in Determining Water Retention and Microbial Dynamics”. Her advisor is Dr. Jie…
Graduate Student Environmental Leadership Award
Jaimie is currently a Graduate Research Associate under Dr. Andrea Ludwig, working towards a Master of Science in Biosystems Engineering (BSE). Her graduate program involves interning with Facility Services and…
GSD MS Award for McKensie Nelms
McKensie Nelms won the 2023 Gamma Sigma Delta MS Student Award. McKensie will defend this spring her MS thesis “ Tomato Flower Detection and Three-Dimensional Mapping for Precision Pollination” under…
Dr. Anton Astner!
Anton Astner successfully defended his Biosystems Engineering PhD. The title of his thesis is “ Analysis of Physicochemical Properties and Terrestrial Dynamics of Mechanically Formed Micro- (MP) and Nano-(NP)Scaled particles…
Construction Science Management (CSM) students help out at Trade’s competition
This is the second year that the Builder’s Exchange organized a Trade competition for high school students. This year high school students from Lenoir City, Greenback, Union County, Halls, Anderson…
BESS at 2022 Tri-Societies Meeting in Baltimore
BESS’s students did very well in various competitions at the recent 2022 Tri-Society Meeting in Baltimore. With respect to undergraduates, in the Students of Agronomy, Soils, and Environmental Sciences (SASES)…
Study connects decomposing body’s BMI to surrounding soil microbes
Dr. Jennifer DeBruyn and Ph.D. student Allison Mason are working towards developing an answer to how differences in human bodies affects post-mortem processes. Along with their collaborators in the departments of Anthropology and…
PhD student gets award
Ravi Teja Neelipally, PhD student in Dr. Sindhu Jagadamma’s group, was selected for the 2022 Hans Jenny Soil Field Trip Award from the Soil Science Society of America. In his…
Rounak Patra Receives GATE Fellowship
PhD candidate Rounak Patra from Assistant Professor Sindhu Jagadamma’s Lab has received the highly competitive Graduate Advancement Training and Education (GATE) fellowship from University’s Science Alliance program. Through this fellowship,…