Sergio Bernardes

James L. Carmon Scholarship Award 2014 Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2014 Sergio Bernardes, a doctoral graduate in geography, has conducted ground-breaking research on the study of ecosystem responses to extreme weather and changing climate. He uses multi-terabyte datasets, also known as “big data,” to examine how different regions respond...

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Tore Olsson

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2014 Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2014 Tore Olsson, a recent doctoral graduate in history, has made numerous important contributions to the fields of modern U.S. and Mexican political and diplomatic history and transnational history, and he has conducted interdisciplinary scholarship in food, agricultural and...

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Franklin Leach

Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2012 Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2012 Franklin Leach, a recent doctoral graduate in chemistry, developed and refined new mass spectrometry methods for the structural characterization of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) carbohydrates, a particularly difficult target for such analysis. These biomolecule chains exist on the surfaces of...

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Kaushlendra Singh

Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2010 Kaushlendra Singh, an assistant professor of wood science and technology at West Virginia University, developed novel technology for fractionating poultry litter to re-use in beneficial ways. Through fractionation, pyrolysis, and pelletization, Singh produced several value-added products from poultry litter. The smaller...

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