News | Agricultural & Biological Engineering | Mississippi State University - Part 12
Biological engineering senior Christopher B. Robinson selected as Truman Scholarship finalist
ABE Associate Professor LaShan Simpson receives Diversity Lecture award from the Biomedical Engineering Society
The Biomedical Engineering Society Awards Committee, and as approved by the BMES Board of Directors, has selected LaShan Simpson as the winner of the 2021 BMES Diversity Lecture Award. As the winner of this award, she will present a 20-minute lecture during the BMES Annual Meeting. The 2021 Diversity Lecture Award consists of an honorarium…
ABE Welcomes Dr. Nuwan Wijewardane
Dr. Nuwan Wijewardane, originally from Sri Lanka (a beautiful tropical island in the Indian Ocean), envisioned his future career as an academic from the time he started his undergraduate career at University of Peradeniya, working on a B.S. in Agricultural Technology and Management while he tutored his classmates. Fueled by the desire to learn more…
Christopher B. Robinson, a biological engineering major, sets sights on Princeton fellowship
Junior Biological Engineering student Christopher Robinson receives prestigious Public Policy and International Affairs Summer Institute Junior Fellowship at Princeton University
Junior Biological Engineering major and Presidential Scholar Christopher Robinson has received the prestigious Public Policy and International Affairs Summer Institute Junior Fellowship at Princeton University. This is the sixth MSU Honors student in seven years to receive a PPIA Junior Fellowship and the fourth to participate at Princeton, the first being Truman Scholar Jamie Aaron….
December 2020 ABE Master of Science graduate, Blade Hodges, makes news in commercial research role
ABE welcomes new assistant professor Dr. Yuzhen Lu
Dr. Yuzhen Lu’s broad educational background synthesizes agricultural science and engineering. Originally from China, he earned a B.S in Facility Agriculture from Northwest A&F University, M.S. in Plant Nutrition from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Ph.D. in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University. Before arriving at Mississippi State, Dr. Lu worked as a…
ABE Ph.D. student Hussein Gharakhani takes first place in student paper competition.
The Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering would like to congratulate Ph.D. student Hussein Gharakhani for his first place win in the Engineering-Systems Student-Paper competition at the 2021 Beltwide Cotton Conference with a paper titled Design and Test Different End Effectors for Robotic Cotton Harvesting.