Outstanding Faculty, Staff, and Students

NSFA 2012 Graduate Student Awards

The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture announces the winners of this year’s graduate student awards. The Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award—Vanessa Coats Vanessa Coats is a Ph.D. student in biochemistry and molecular biology who is investigating the invasive plant Japanese barberry. Vanessa’s research is breaking new ground by using high-throughput gene sequencing […]

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2011 Graduate Student Award Winners

The Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award Venura Herath is a Ph.D. student in biological sciences who is working to increase our understanding of the cellular and molecular processes that allow plants to respond to low-temperature stresses. His research is part of an ongoing federal initiative to decode the genomes of all major food crops to […]

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