Awards & Recognition | Agricultural & Biological Engineering | Mississippi State University - Part 11
NATO includes MSU engineering research in conference
A Mississippi State biomedical engineering researcher focused on decreasing amputations and other leg injuries to soldiers in IED-attacked vehicles will present her findings next week at a NATO conference in Canada. Lakiesha N. Williams, an assistant professor of biological engineering at the university, will address NATO’s Research and Technology Organization during a Monday-Wednesday [Oct. 3-5]…
BCoE women earn scholarships from national honor society
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Two women from Bagley College of Engineering have earned scholarships from the world’s largest engineering honor society. Tau Beta Pi has awarded $2,000 scholarships to both Mary Rougeau and Mary “Ginny” Sewall for the 2011-12 academic year. The two were among 158 students selected from a pool of more than 370 applicants from across…
University recognizes four ‘outstanding’ members of the BCoE family
Women from the Bagley College of Engineering received half of this year’s Mississippi State Outstanding Women Awards during the 33rd annual President’s Commission on the Status of Women awards ceremony. The BCoE’s honorees include: Michele Anderson, Outstanding Professional Woman; Lori Mann Bruce, Outstanding Executive/Administrative/Managerial Woman; Thelma Neal, Outstanding Service/Maintenance Woman; and Rachel Wheeler, Outstanding Graduate…
National organization helps fund students’ further education
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Economic woes will not prevent three Mississippi State students from pursuing engineering degrees. Each Bagley College of Engineering student has earned financial support from the world’s largest engineering honor society. Tau Beta Pi has awarded a $2,000 scholarship to Michael Barton, a senior in aerospace engineering. William Cleveland, aerospace and computer engineering,…
Undergraduate enhancement projects earn students national acclaim
Efforts to enhance their undergraduate experience have earned some Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE) students national acclaim. Two student teams placed in the national Engineering Education Service Center’s (EESC) 2009 Engineering Curriculum Contest using projects they developed for the BCoE’s technical writing course. A first for the EESC, the competition challenged teams to develop hands-on…
Wheatley received 2009 Jimmy Lee Dodd Scholarship
Kaitlin Wheatley, a BE senior, a member of the MSU women volley ball team, is the newest recipient of the Jimmy Lee Dodd Scholar Athlete scholarship. This is a prestigious scholarship because it is given only to student athletes with exceptional scholastic performance. The Jimmy Lee Dodd Scholarship is a special scholarship given to distinguish…
Graduate Students Won Awards
Scott Metzler, BME phD student under Dr. Warnock was the Winner of the 7th Graduate Students Research Symposium’s Best Oral Competetion in Physical Sciences. A recognition from the graduate school at Mississippi State to out standing student performance. His presentation was entitled “A Novel ex vivo Bioreactor with Live Cell Imaging Analysis for Characterizing the…
Undergraduates Students Won Awards
Caleb Dulaney and Sam Pote were the 3rd place winners in poster presentation at The First Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium April 21, 2009, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. in the Foster Ballroom of the Colvard Student Union This event was open to all MSU undergraduates, The award was given by the Phi Kappa Phi honor society…
BCoE students receive Spirit of State honors
Many Mississippi State students possess a special, can-do attitude. This appears especially prevalent among those in the Bagley College of Engineering (BCoE), as five engineering majors received recognition as 2009 Spirit of State award winners. Since its establishment in 2006, Spirit of State awards have served as the university’s highest student service honors. The awards…
ABE Students Won Undergraduate Research Awards
Six BE undergraduate students will be honored in the Annual Research Awards Banquet on Tuesday April 29th 2008 at the Hunter Henry Center for their excellence in research. The students are a part of the MSU iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) team. This is a team of students from the MSU Synthetic Biology Club (MSUSBC)…