Our Graduate Students
Please find here a complete directory of our graduate students and their areas of expertise. For those students interested in adding your own submission to this directory please ask your advisor for a link to the insertion form.
| Name: | Department: | Degree: | Thesis: | Research Area: | Advisor: |
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| Shireen Shaikh | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Avian Molecular Biology | Animal Sciences | Mark Parcells |
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| Lauren Preskenis | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Characterization of recent low-pathogenicity H7 avian influenza isolates in SPF Leghorns, Pekin Ducks and Turkeys | Molecular Virology | Jack Gelb |
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| Hudaa (Swaleha) Neetoo | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | High Pressure Processing to inactivate foodborne pathogens on sprouting seeds | Animal Science | Haiqiang Chen |
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| Dana Hoffman-Pennesi | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Antioxidant activity of plant essential oils and their antimicrobial effects on food pathogens. | Food Science | Changqing Wu |
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| Yaoxin Huang | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | High pressure processing | Food Sciences | Haiqiang Chen |
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| Kirsten Hirneisen | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Enteric viruses | Animal Science | Kalmia Kniel |
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| Michele Maughan | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | "Pathogenomic Approaches to Characterizing the Avian Innate Immune Response to Avian Influenza Virus" | Molecular Immunogenetics & Virology | Calvin Keeler |
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| Jie Wei | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Food Virology, Survival of virus on land-applied manure/biosolids and transport to plants and crops | Food Sciences | Kalmia Kniel |
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| Kyleigh Gloska | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | 1. Determine the sensitivity of human pathogenic viruses to commonly used pesticides and fertilizers.
2. Determine the survival of human pathogenic viruses in bacterial biofilms that could occur in an agricultural environment. | Food Science | Kalmia Kniel |
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| Trista Reeder | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Large Animal Physiology: Bovine Laminitis | Animal Science | Robert Dyer |
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| Mary Rankin | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | -Emergency poultry depopulation
-Disposal methods and disinfection of affected structures and equipment | Master Degree in Animal and Food Sciences | Eric Benson and Robert Alphin |
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| Huimin Dong | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | The Meq Oncoprotein of Marek's Disease Virus: Mutations in High Virulence MDVs and Their Putative Role in Changing Pathogenesis | Animal and Food Sciences | Mark Parcells |
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| Syamsundar Gaddamanugu | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Characterization of a Hungarian Isolate of Marek's Disease Virus | Avian Virology | Mark S. Parcells |
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| Upendra Katneni | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Development of Immunotherapies for Feline and Canine Solid Tumors
| Tumor Immunology | Mark S. Parcells |
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| Laura Nemec | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Effects of organic trace mineral supplements on mineral bioavailability and immune function of dairy cattle | Dairy Science | Tanya Gressley |
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| Kyleigh Gloska | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Effect of Broad Spectrum Fertilizers on Human Picornaviruses | Food Science | Kalmia Kniel |
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| Yaoxin Huang | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | E. coli in baby spinach | Animal and Food Science | Haiqiang Chen |
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| Greg Juck | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Anti-Listeria Monocytogenes Edible Coatings on Turkey. | Food Science | Haiqiang Chen |
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| Michele Maughan | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Molecular Genetics and Immunology
Microbial Pathogenomics | Animal Science | Calvin Keeler |
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| Shireen Shaikh | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Molecular virology, Role of glycoprotein L deletion in Marek's Disease Virus pathogenesis. | Animal Sciences (Molecular Virology) | Mark Parcells |
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| Jie Wei | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Human pathogenic virus survival and transport in agricultural environment | Animal Science | Kalmia Kniel |
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| Casey Sartori | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Salmonella | ANFS | Rolf Joerger |
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| Dana Hoffman-Pennesi | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Using essential oils as potential poultry feed additives | Food Science | Changqing Wu |
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| Trista Reeder | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Characterization of normal and ulcerated tissues of the bovine foot. | Large Animal Physiology | Robert Dyer |
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| Zheng Jiang | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | I focus my research on antimicrobial packaging. In detail, my area is about using edible coatings and films incorporating GRAS antimicrobials to inhibit the growth of L. monocytogenes on food. | Food Sciences | Haiqiang Chen |
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| Huimin Dong | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | The role of oncogene Meq of Marek's Disease Virus on changing pathogenicity | Animal Science | Mark Parcells |
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| Jonathan M. Lim | Animal and Food Sciences | Ph.D. | Research area focuses on the use of microbial inoculants and fibrolytic enzymes in silage and the resulting effect on fermentation and nutritive value for lactating cows. | Animal Science | Limin Kung Jr. |
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| Milos Markis | Animal and Food Sciences | M.S. | Marek's disease virus replication in feather tips. Marek's disease virus-encoded microRNA profiles in feather tips. | Molecular Virology | Robin Morgan |
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| Alison Kiliszek | BioResources Engineering | M.S. | Development and Use of Water Quality Indices (WQI) to Assess the Impact of BMP Implementation of Water Quality in the Cool Run Tributary of the White Clay Creek Watershed | BioResources Engineering | Anastasia E. M. Chirnside and William. Ritter |
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| Sadie E.G. Ulman | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Migration corridors of staging and breeding shorebirds on Chickaloon Flats, Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska | Entomology and Widlife Ecology | Christopher K. Williams |
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| Elizabeth Tymkiw | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Effect of deer density on breeding songbirds in Delaware. | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Amanda Conover | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Impact of exotic plants on bird populations in suburban forest fragments | Wildlife Ecology | Christopher K. Williams |
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| Rebecca Kern | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | PRESCRIBED FIRE FREQUENCIES AND NESTING SUCCESS OF SECRETIVE MARSH BIRDS AT BLACKWATER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AND FISHING BAY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, MARYLAND | Wildlife Ecology | Greg Shriver |
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| Brian Jennings | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODEL OF THE WHITE-TAILED DEER POPULATION IN DELAWARE | Wildlife Ecology | Jake L. Bowman |
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| Erin B. Reed | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Bottom up effect on top down control in the suburban landscape
How the origin of the ornamentals planted in suburbia affect ecosystem functioning, namely the control of insect pests by natural enemies | Wildlife Ecology | Douglas Tallamy |
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| Ken Duren | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Developing a predictive habitat suitability model for northern bobwhite quail in Delaware and comparing bobwhite population changes with changes in landuse. | Wildlife Ecology | Christopher K. Williams |
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| Angela Caranci | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Host-switching in Culex pipiens: Effects of Photoperiod and Aging on Host Choice | Entomology | Jack Gingrich and Charles Mason |
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| Kurt Anderson | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Migration chronology and habitat use of American black ducks. | Entomology and Wildlife | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Whitney Wiest | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Development of Avian Rapid Assessment Metrics to Monitor Salt Marsh Integrity | Wildlife Ecology | Greg Shriver |
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| Nathan Nazdrowicz | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Local and landscape-level factors influencing long-tailed salamander (Eurycea longicauda longicauda) populations associated with springhouses on the periphery of their range. | Wildlife Ecology | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Jim Fredericks | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Primary interest in integrated pest management, foraging behavior and distribution of subterranean termites, particularly Reticulitermes spp. More broadly interested in urban pest management. | Entomology and Applied Ecology | Charles Mason |
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| Matthew Springer | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | The Effect of White-tailed deer on Bearded and Unbearded Wheat Yield. | Wildlife Ecology | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Brian Cutting | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | An evaluation of the effectiveness of butterfly gardens as a restoration tool using the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus | Entomology | Douglas Tallamy |
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| Kiri Joy Cutting | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | An integrated management approach to the restoration of areas dominated by the invasive introduced plant Mile-a-Minute (Persicaria perfoliata) | Masters in Wildlife Ecology | Judy Hough-Goldstein |
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| Matt Frye | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Response of kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata) to different types and levels of simulated herbivore damage | Entomology | Judy Hough-Goldstein |
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| Katherine Guerena | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | NESTING AND BROOD-REARING ECOLOGY OF RESIDENT CANADA GEESE IN NEW JERSEY | Wildlife Ecology | Christopher K. Williams |
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| Kathryn Weglarz | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Revision of the genus Delphacodes | Entomology | Charles Bartlett |
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| Christy Beal | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Bird Foraging Preferences and Caterpillar Biomass on Suburban Woody Landscape Trees | Entomology | Doug Tallamy |
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| Judith Keller | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Campylobacter in wild birds | Wildlife Ecology | W. Gregory Shriver |
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| Zachary Ladin | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Ecology of wintering and staging Atlantic brant | Wildlife Ecology | Christopher K. Williams |
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| Gavin Ferris | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Ecological Processes of Riparian Forested Corridors | Applied Ecology | Christopher Williams |
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| David M Kalb | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | Dispersal and Survival of Yearling Sika Deer Stags on Maryland's Eastern Shore. | Wildlife Ecology | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Meg Ballard | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Impacts of alien plant invasions on native insect populations. | Entomology | Douglas Tallamy |
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| Nathan Nazdrowicz | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Ph.D. | Local and landscape-level factors influencing long-tailed salamander (Eurycea longicauda longicauda) populations associated with springhouses on the periphery of their range | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | Jacob L. Bowman |
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| Brian Jennings | Entomology and Wildlife Ecology | M.S. | A SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODEL OF THE WHITE-TAILED DEER POPULATION IN DELAWARE | Wildlife Ecology | Jake Bowman |
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| Yunfeng Chen | Food and Resource Ecomonics | M.S. | Statistics | Statistics | |
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| Chaozheng Yang | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Career goal: find job involving Modeling and Data Analysis | Statistics | |
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| Shiwei Fang | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Using the statistics or econometrics knowledge to study further in international trade and economics and marketing of industry. | Food and Resource Economics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Yue Zeng | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analysis | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Haifeng Zeng | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Finance, banking | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Hong Xu | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Statistics | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Junling Ji | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data analysis in environmental science | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| FEI HE | Food and Resource Economics | | Biostatistics, data analysis | Statistics | |
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| Xing | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | mathematical modeling | Mathematical Modeling | Kent Messer |
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| Zhenglong Tian | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data analysis, Risk analysis, Marketing research with statistical knowledge | Statistics | |
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| Yuan Li | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data analyst, mathematical modeling | Operations Research | Kent Messer |
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| Wenying Yu | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analyst, mathematical modeling, financial analysis, | Operations Research | Rhonda Aull Hyde |
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| Qian Chen | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analyst, biostatistics | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Jubo Yan | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Experimental Economics
Public Economics | Agricultural and Resource Economics | Kent Messer |
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| Jumryang Yoo | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data Analysis on social studies | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| BOYANG LIU | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | public school | Food and Resource Economics | John Mackenzie |
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| Kushal Sheth | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Mathematical Modelling, Data Analysis | Operations Research | Palaniappa Krishnan |
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| Yue Zeng | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analyst | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Zhen Shen | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analyst, mathematical modeling, financial analysis, optimization | Operations Research | Kent Messer |
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| Michelle S Davis | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Financial analysis, risk prediction | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Guang Xiao | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | mathematical modeling | Operations Research | John Pesek |
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| Yu CHEN | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Land Conservation, Data Analysis | Agricultural and Resource Economics | Kent Messer |
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| Tao | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Statistics | Statistics | Thomas W. IIvento |
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| Prasoon Pancholi | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Optimization Modeling and Statistical Data Analysis | Operations Research | Rhonda Aull-Hyde |
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| Tangjun Li | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | statistics | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Na He | Food and Resource Economics | Ph.D. | Agricultural Economics, Experimental Economics and Individual Decision Making | Food and Resource Economics | John C.Bernard |
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| Huan Xie | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Statistics | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Robin Dillaway | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Consumer response to food safety scares. | Food and Resource Economics | Kent Messer |
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| George F. Szczepanski | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Economics of International Trade | Food and Resource Economics | Titus Awokuse |
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| Guangwen Zhu | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | statistics | Statistics | |
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| Baiyun Yao | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analysis, mathematical modeling, and experiment design | Statistics | |
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| Kathryn Onken | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | WTP for locally grown, organic and natural foods ; food marketing | Agricultural and Resource Economics | John C. Bernard |
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| Vimal Kannan | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data Analysis, Financial analysis | Operations Research | Palaniappa Krishnan |
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| Rui Yang | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | data analysis and regression | Statistics | Dianne Sisofo |
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| Cijing Zhang | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Statistics | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Xiaojing Lin | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Career goal: Design and development of models, methods, and computer applications to apply statistical techniques in the area of economics. | Statistics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Brijesh Saboo | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | Data Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Financial Analysis | Operations Research | Palaniappa Krishnan |
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| Huiying Li | Food and Resource Economics | M.S. | statistics | Statisitics | Thomas W. Ilvento |
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| Daniel Burcham | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Community tree planting programs, tree procurement process | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Dimin Fan | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Pore scale characterization of transport and retention of colloids in porous media | Environmental Soil Sciences | Yan Jin |
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| Jackie Bergquist | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Public Horticulture | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Brandon Lafferty | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Biotic and Abiotic Arsenic Redox Reactions in Soils | Soil Sciences | Donald Sparks |
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| Shari Edelson | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Community Supported Agriculture and Public Horticulture Institutions | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Sudarshan Dutta | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Watershed Management | Soil and Environmental Quality | Shreeram Inamdar |
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| Amy Sprinkle | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | "Using pelletized poultry litter as a fertilizer on athletic fields; nitrogen availability to turfgrass from pelletized poultry litter." | Plant and Soil Sciences: Nutrient Management | David Hansen |
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| Sandra Marisa Mathioni | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Genomic Regulation During Stress-Inducing Conditions In The Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae - Our research interest is focused on gaining a better understanding into which fungal genes are differentially expressed during the disease process. | Molecular Plant Pathology | Nicole Donofrio |
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| Junling Ji | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Land Use Impact on Carbon Cycling and Elemental Budget | Environmental Soil Science | Kyungsoo Yoo |
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| Barnabas Seyler | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Sino-American Botanical Exchange: Encouraging greater botanical collaboration through a mutually beneficial staff exchange program | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Christine Collins | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Evaluation of the use of a biological control agent, Trichoderma spp., against damping-off caused by Pythium aphanadermatum in microgreen plant species | Plant and Soil Sciences | Wallace Pill |
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| Andre Belo | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Plant genetics and genomics | Integrative Training Option - Plant Biology and Biotechnology | Antoni Rafalski |
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| Susan Foster | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Enhancing the sexual propagation of Actaea racemosa and the production
of botanically active compounds from its rhizomes using hydroponics.
| Plant and Soil Sciences | Wallace Pill |
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| Jon Pixler | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Medicinal Plants: Collection Interpretation And Education In United States Public Horticulture | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Sridhara G Kunjeti | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Primary focus is to identify effector proteins secreted by an oomycete pathogen P. phaseoli, causing downy mildew of lima bean. From the host I am trying to identify if any PR proteins are expressed during infection in lima bean | Plant and Soil Sciences | Thomas A Evans, Co-chair Nicole M Donofrio |
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| Evan Gruber | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Nutrient movement in soils | Plant and Soil Sciences | Dave Hansen |
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| L. Camille Jones | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Arsenic redox cycles in soils via biotic and abiotic processes | Soil Sciences | Donald Sparks |
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| Sandra Marisa Mathioni | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Transcriptome profiling of the rice blast fungus Magnapothe oryzae during stress conditions. | Molecular Plant Pathology | Nicole Donofrio |
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| Keelin Purcell | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | An Analysis of Adolescent Involvement at Public Horticulture Institutions | Longwood Graduate Program in Public Horticulture | Robert Lyons |
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| Xu Wang | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Cellular and Molecular Plant Biology | Plant Science | Jung Youn Lee |
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| Gautier Landrot | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Kinetics and Mechanisms of Cr(III) Oxidation and Precipitation on Manganese Oxides, in Real-Time and at the Molecular Level
| Soil Chemistry | Sparks, D.L |
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| Anne Lucey | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Whether an awareness of benefits positively influences public perception of sustainable roadside vegetation strategies. | Plant & Soil Sciences | Susan Barton |
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| Cristina Fernandez | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Acceleration of inorganic nutrient release and mineral-organic matter association
by biophysical soil mixing along an earthworm invasion chronosequence | Plant and Soil Science | Kyungsoo Yoo |
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| Sanchita Jamindar | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Environmental virology | Plant and Soil Sciences | Eric Wommack |
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| Andrew Gapinski | Plant and Soil Sciences | M.S. | Preparing Plant Collections for Biological Invasions: A Case Study of the Effects of Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmarie) | Longwood Graduate Program | Robert Lyons |
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| Yun Wu | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Environmental Soil Chemistry | Environmental Soil Chemistry | Donald L. Sparks |
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| Joseph Townsend | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | The behavioral relationship between urban crime and mature street tree plantings in single family residential neighborhoods | Plant and Soil Sciences | Susan Barton |
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| Sharath Srinivasiah | Plant and Soil Sciences | Ph.D. | Environmental Viral Ecology | Plant and Soil Sciences | Eric Wommack |
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