Awards & Recognition | Agricultural & Biological Engineering | Mississippi State University - Part 5

ABE Associate Professor LaShan Simpson earns recognition from national organization

November 15, 2021


ABE student leads MSU Energy Club to $250,000 win in XPRIZE carbon-removal competition supported by SpaceX CEO’s foundation

November 11, 2021


New ABE Assistant Professor, Dr. Xin Zhang, Wins Pellizi Prize

Every two years the Club of Bologna awards the Pellizi Prize, supported by FederUnacoma, for the worldwide best Ph.D. dissertations in agricultural machinery and mechanization. Mississippi State University’s Xin Zhang was selected as a winner. Dr. Zhang earned her Ph.D. at Washington State University and joined the faculty at MSU in August 2021.

November 5, 2021


Three ABE students are among those selected as 2021-22 Alumni Delegates

Three ABE students will serve as members of MSU’s Alumni Association’s liaison organization: Sophie Jones of Birmingham, AL, a junior biomedical engineering major; Kamryn Davis of Jackson, MS, a senior biomedical engineering major; and Chanukya “Chanu” Cherukuri of Madison, MS, a senior biological engineering major. To read the full article, please visit the MSU Newsroom.

November 1, 2021


Three of MSU’s new Presidential Scholars will study in ABE

Reagan S. Hendricks of Hoover, AL, a biomedical engineering major and Hoover High School graduate, received a Sanders Family Presidential Endowed Scholarship. John P. Givens of Knoxville, TN, a biomedical engineering major and Bearden High School graduate, received a Mike and Nan Sanders Presidential Endowed Scholarship. Khaoula Kamal of Tupelo, MS,  a biomedical engineering major…

November 1, 2021


ABE graduate student, Katelin Waldrep, earns 3rd place in the Agriculture and Life Sciences oral presentation category of MSU’s Graduate Research Symposium

ABE graduate student, Katelin Waldrep, earns 3rd place in the Agriculture and Life Sciences oral presentation category of MSU’s Graduate Research Symposium. Her presentation was on Managing Iron Deficiency Chlorosis (IDC) Through a Cropping System Approach.

October 29, 2021


Three ABE students recognized as MSU Presidential Scholars

October 6, 2021


Three ABE faculty members win teaching awards in April 2021

Congratulations to our ABE faculty! Daniel Chesser College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Excellence in Teaching Lower Division Award

May 4, 2021


Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student, Anna Marie Clay, awarded NASA/Mississippi Space Grant Fellowship

Anna Marie Clay, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, has been selected for the third year in a row as a NASA/Mississippi Space Grant Consortium Graduate Research Fellow for her great and impactful work with school children, which is a mission of the Space Grant program. The amount of the fellowship is $22,500 to be…

May 4, 2021


ABE student, Kaylee Bundy, receives 2021 C. William Hall Scholarship from the Society for Biomaterials

Kaylee Bundy has been selected to receive the 2021 C. William Hall Scholarship. This award honors the memory of the The Society For Biomaterials’s first president, Dr. C. William Hall. She received this award based on her outstanding scholastic achievement and her stated objectives for her research project and her career. As the recipient of…

April 28, 2021