IFT recap
Great success for FDST
Thanks to our terrific graduate and undergraduate students, our Department had many successes at IFT As noted earlier, Poi-Wah Lee won 1st place in the IFT Graduate Research Oral Paper Competition (the most prestigious paper award at IFT). In addition, Anuja Patnaik won the Second Place Award in the Biotechnology Division Poster Competition, and two other students, Bhima Geera and Matt Dickey presented in the Carbohydrate Division paper competition. Other students that competed in paper completions included FDST Senior (and now graduate student) Melanie Downs and Ferdelie Gaskin. Three other students, Rakhi Panda, Harsha Ariyarathna, and Manjusha Kasinadhuni, did not enter paper competitions but still presented their research at the poster sessions.
Our College Bowl Team (Melanie Downs, Ryan Talley, Tim Anderson, Suzy Hammons, Bailey Harris) put up a great fight, but, unfortunately, came up short in their two matches and were eliminated in the morning rounds. Still, just being one of 8 teams to make the national competition was a great accomplishment (and the first time a team from UNL made it into the finals). Given that two team members (Suzy and Bailey) are underclassmen gives the team a great foundation for next year.
