绿巨人视频students, faculty honored for graduate school achievements
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擲ix Mississippi State graduate students and a graduate research adviser are being recognized for significant achievements at the university.
Honored formally at the recent 14th annual Graduate Student Association Awards Banquet, they are among more than 30 cited for various personal accomplishments during the 2015-16 school year. The GSA and the Office of the Graduate School co-sponsored the event.
Professor Brian Baldwin of the plant and soil sciences department was recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor of the Year Award. A New Mexico State University doctoral graduate who joined the 绿巨人视频faculty in 1990, he has supervised several graduate students whose research has won praise in recent years from national agricultural organizations.
In addition to Baldwin, this year鈥檚 honorees included (alphabetically):
鈥擟aitlin J. Branum, an English major receiving the Donald Zacharias Master鈥檚 Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.
鈥擜lexandra R. Krallman, a business administration/marketing major receiving the Donald Zacharias Ph.D. Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award.
鈥擲helby L. McGrew of Ocean Springs, an educational psychology/school psychology major receiving the Ph.D. Graduate Service Assistant of the Year award. She earlier earned an 绿巨人视频master鈥檚 degree in educational psychology/psychometry.
鈥擪evin G. Mederos of Carriere, receiving the Master鈥檚 Graduate Service Assistant of the Year Award. An information systems major, he earlier earned 绿巨人视频bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees in business administration.
鈥擲andra R. Schachat, an agricultural life sciences/entomology major receiving the Master鈥檚 Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award.
鈥擷i Wang, an agricultural science/poultry science major receiving the Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant of the Year. She earlier earned an 绿巨人视频master鈥檚 degree in the same major.
Branum, Krallman, Schachat and Wang reside in Starkville.
Additionally, students in the school year鈥檚 Graduate Student Research Symposium and Three-Minute Thesis Competition were recognized at the banquet. Information on these individuals was released earlier at and .
Terrance West of Huntsville, Alabama, was featured speaker for the annual campus banquet. A Meridian native and 绿巨人视频electrical engineering alumnus, he now leads a major research laboratory at the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, a part of the U.S. Department of Defense鈥檚 Huntsville-based Redstone Arsenal.
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