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STUDENT SUCCESS

Congratulations to Agricultural and Resource Economics MSc students, Charlene Green, Anusher Khumorikov, Sadik Mahmud and Dipa Sultana (REES), who won the .

Ehsan Feizollahi's research on decontaminating wheat and barley with cold plasma, supervised by M. S. Roopesh (AFNS), was recognized by Food Safety magazine as one of the .

The following scholarships and awards were recently granted to ALES graduate students:

• Camila Estefani Orsso received an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship
• Arturo Macias received an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Abhijeet Pathy became a Vanier Scholar
• Andu Berha became a Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) 2024-25 Doctoral Fellows

This year's ALES Graduate Thesis Awards were given to:

• PhD: Pamela Klassen and Juli Wang (AFNS), and Rashaduz Zaman (RENR)
• MSc: Sumedha Nallanthighal (AFNS) and Nicole Lau (RENR)

Congratulations to ALES student-athletes who were recognized as :

• Rae-Anne Gill (Pandas Cross-Country)
• Ella Heinrich (Pandas Cross-Country)
• Madison Ford (Pandas Cross-Country/Track & Field)
• Taylor Hebert (Pandas Track & Field)

FACULTY EXCELLENCE

The latest Canada Research Chair (CRC) announcement named Carla Prado (AFNS) a Tier 1 Chair, and renewed Michael Gänzle (AFNS) as a Tier 1 Chair and Caroline Richard (AFNS) as a Tier 2 Chair.

We are proud of our award-winning faculty members who were recognized in recent months, including:

• Aman Ullah (AFNS) was recognized at the U of A Innovation Awards for his spinoff company, ZAFA Biorefinery Inc.
• Vic Adamowicz (REES) was announced a fellow of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Association (CREEA), as well as a 2025 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Fellow
• Jean Buteau (AFNS) awarded the Researcher of the Year from the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Diabetes Foundation
• This year’s AStech Awards recognized Jane Batcheller (HE), David Bressler (AFNS), Patricia Dolez (HE) and Sandeep Agrawal (ALI).
• ALES recipients at Celebrate 2024 included John Basrab (AFNS), Graham Plastow (AFNS), Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez (REES) and Carla Prado (AFNS).
• The Celebration of Service recognized milestones for the following ALES faculty: Walter Dixon (AFNS) 35 years, Janusz Zwiazek (RENR) 35 years and Anne M. Naeth (RENR) 40 years.

Department-awarded teachers of the year

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