Undergraduates:

1.      Wisiani Wijaya

·       1st place; 2013 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition

2.     Paula Feldmar

·       1st place; 2014 IFT undergraduate Research competition

·       2014 NEIFT Undergraduate Student Scholarship

3.     Alex Mills

·       Finalist; 2017 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition

4.     Joshua Gukowsky

·       2017 global undergraduate Alltech young scientist award. He receives full PhD support from Alltech on studying antibiotic resistance.

·       2017 CS-CVS undergraduate travel grant

5.     Adam Salhaney

·       1st place; 2018 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition

6.     Xiaoyan Tan

·       Finalist; 2019 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition

7.     Adam Forbes

·       2023 UMass rising researcher

·       1st place; 2023 IFT Undergraduate Research Competition

 

Graduate students:

8.     Shintaro Pang (Now Associate Professor at Brigham Young University)

·       1st place; 2013 Department Hultin Scholarship Competition

·       1st place; 2013 IFT International Food Nanoscience Conference Poster Competition

·       1st place; 2013 IFT Graduate Student Research Paper Competition: Toxicology & Safety Evaluation Division

·       1st place; 2013 Society of Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) Poster Competition

·       2014 NEIFT Graduate Student Scholarship

·       2014 Northeast Section IFT Graduate Student Scholarship

·       2nd place; 2015 IFT global student innovation challenge

 

9.     Michael Driver

·       2nd place; 2015 Department Francis Scholarship Competition

 

10.  Tianxi Yang (Now Assistant Professor at The University of British Columbia)

·       National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH- NIEHS) Scholarship, USA, 2016

·       International Phytotechnologies Scholar, 2016

·       ACS Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division Travel Award, 2016

·       Francis Strategic Research Alliance Competition-2nd place, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2016

·       Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Tanner Award for the most-cited paper published in the Journal of Food Science's Toxicology and Chemical Food Safety section in 2016

·       Oral Presentation Winner, 7th Life Science Graduate Research Symposium, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2017

·       National IFT Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, USA, 2017

·       Northeast Section IFT Graduate Scholarship, USA, 2017

·       Phi Tau Sigma Founders' Award, 2017

·       Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Student Travel Award, USA, 2017

·       Graduate School Travel Grant Award, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, 2017

·       BASF Science Competition-3rd place, North America, 2018

·       Scientific Teaching Fellow, Yale Center for Teaching and Learning, USA, 2018

·       Honor Society for Food Science and Technology (Phi Tau Sigma) Student Achievement Scholarship, 2018

·       American Chemical Society (ACS) Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division Withycombe‐Charalambous Award-3rd place, 2018

·       Silk Road International Distinguished Young Scholar, China, 2019

  

11.  Zhiyun Zhang

·       Travel grant for 2016 fall ACS-AGFD international student symposium

·       2017 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) student travel award

·       PhytoScholars international travel awards (2016 and 2017) by NIEHS

 

12.  Hua Zhang

·       Travel grant for 2016 Experimental Biology meeting

 

13.  Siyue Gao

·       Travel grant for 2016 fall ACS-AGFD international student symposium

 

14.  Haoxin Chen

·       2017 North American Chemical Residue Workshop (NACRW) travel award

 

15.  Michael Hickey

·       PhytoScholars international travel awards (2016 and 2017) by NIEHS

·       3rd place; 2018 BASF science competition

·       Finalist, 'Feeding 9 Billion' category in the 'CocaCola HeroX' competition, 2018

·       runners-up; 2018 Department Francis scholarship competition

·       NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) graduate fellowship (2018-2019)

·       2nd place; 2019 Seed Pitch Competition of innovation challenge held by the Isenberg school of management

 

16.  Yanqi Qu

·       2018 Global Millipore Sigma Food & Beverage Safety Award

·       runner-up; 2018 Department Hultin scholarship competition

 

17.  Joshua Gukowsky

·       1st place; 2018 Department Francis scholarship competition

·       3rd place; 2019 IFT graduate research poster competition, food microbiology division

 

18.  Janam Pandya

·       2019 IFT feeding tomorrow graduate scholarship

 

19.  Alex Mills

·       NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) graduate fellowship (2018-2019)

 

20.  Helen Lin

·       NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) graduate fellowship (2020-2021)

·       2nd place, 2022 Department Francis scholarship competition

 

21.  Haochen Dai

·       Finalist; 2020 IFT graduate research video competition

·       1st place; 2021 Department Hultin scholarship competition


22.  Yuzhen Zhang

·   Runner-up; 2023 Department Hultin scholarship

·   2024 Health Tech for the People (HT4P) fellowship award

·   1st place; UMass Food Science and Technology: Innovate for Tomorrow Challenge – Advanced phase

.   2024 Western Massachusetts Health Tech Challenge Finalists  

.   2025 IAFP travel scholarship

 

23.  Prarthanaa Sankaranarayanan

·       1st place; 2024 "Speedy Science", a 3-minute thesis competition organized by the Phi Tau Sigma

·       1st place; 2024 IFT oral competition - the Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division

 

24.  Janvi Patel

·       1st place; 2024 AOAC poster competition

 

            25. Bezalel Adainoo  

                      .     1st place – Entrepreneurial Biotech Bootcamp Final Pitch Competition UMass (December 2024)

                      .      UMASS CNS Equity Fellow (25 spring).   

                      .      2nd place -  2025 Dept Hultin Competition 

 

           26. Adam Forbes

                     .     1st place - 2025 Dept Francis Competition