Student Awards

Weicang Wang, PhD student (2014-19):

• Health and Nutrition Division Student Award, American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) (2019)

• Honored Student Award, AOCS (2019)

• Chinese government award for outstanding self-financed students abroad, Consulate General of China in New York & China Scholarship Council (2019)

• Phi Tau Sigma Founder's Award, Honor Society of Phi Tau Sigma (Honor Society for Food Science and Technology) (2018)

• Love of Learning Award, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2018)

• Outstanding Poster Award, the 17th International Winter Eicosanoid Meeting (2018)

• Publons Peer Review Award (Top 1% of reviewers in field of Agricultural Sciences) (2018)

• Travel Award, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2018)

• Poster Winner, 8th Annual Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, UMass-Amherst (2018)

• Travel Award for Young Investigators Symposium, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) (2017)

• Micha Peleg International Travel Award, UMass-Amherst (2017)

• Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) (2017)

• Graduate Student Scholarship, Northeast Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (NEIFT) (2017)

• Poster Winner, 7th Annual Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, UMass-Amherst (2017)

• Travel Grant for ACS/AGFD Student Chapter Symposium, ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia (2016)

• Alumni Graduate Scholarship, UMass-Amherst (2014-17)

Katherine Z. Sanidad, PhD student (2014-19):

• Best Student Oral Presentation Award, Northeast Chapter of the Society of Toxicol-ogy (NESOT) Annual Meeting (2017)

• Graduate Travel Award, NESOT (2018)

• Travel Award, 24th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (NACSETAC) (2018)

• Best Poster Award, 24th Annual Meeting of NACSETAC (2018)

• Byron Prize Award for best Ph.D. Dissertation, Molecular and Cell Biology Program, UMass-Amherst (2020)

Jianan Zhang, PhD student (2016-2021) and postdoctoral fellow (2021-present):

• First place of Herbert O. Hultin Oral Competition Scholarship, UMass-Amherst (2019)

• Excellent poster award, UMass Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium (2019)

• Best Poster Award, Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium, UMass-Amherst (2021)

• Founder’s Scholarship, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2021)

Elvira Sukamtoh, BS student (2014-16) and MS student (2016-18):

• Travel award, IFT (2015)

• 2nd place of Undergraduate Research Competition, IFT (2015)

• Rising Researcher Award, UMass-Amherst (2015)

• Travel award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2016)

• 1st place of Undergraduate Student Research Award Symposium, ACS (2016)

• Alumni Fellowship, UMass-Amherst (2016)

Haixia Yang, Postdoctoral fellow (2016-18):

• Postdoctoral Poster Award, NESOT Annual Meeting (2017)

• Best Postdoctoral Publication Award, Society of Toxicology (2018)