May / June, 2004
Congratulation
MSU Board of Trustee Academic Achievements Award
Biosystems Engineering student, Tracy Kamikawa was one of only fifteen MSU students honored for their academic achievements by the MSU Board of Trustees.
The 15 students, all May graduates, achieved a perfect 4.0 grade point average.The Board of Trustees awards are granted at each commencement to students having the highest scholastic averages at the close of their last semester in attendance.
Tracy Kamikawa (far right) honored at |
On April 1st, 2004, Dr. Evangelyn Alocilja was given the College of Engineering's Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of five years of caring and dedicated service as advisor to the MSU student chapter of the Waste Management Environmental Research Consortium.
This year, Dr. Alocilja was advisor to two highly talented graduates: Tracy Kamikawa, recipient of the MSU Board of Trustee Academic Achievements Award and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, and Marita Sheldon, recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Furthermore, Tracy and Marita are the only undergraduate students at MSU this year to receive the NSF fellowship award. You must be a special faculty member Dr. Alocilja, to have two exceptional students as their faculty mentor. That has not occurred at MSU before.
Dr. Bradley Marks, Associate Professor of Biosystems Engineering was an invited speaker at the National Academy of Engineering's Seventh German-American Frontiers of Engineering Symposium in Washington, D.C., April 29 - May 1, 2004. Dr. Marks spoke on the topic of "Food Processing to Ensure Food Safety". http://www.nae.edu/nae/NAEFOE.nsf/weblinks/NAEW-4NLSDS?OpenDocument
Matt Stasiewicz, Biosystems Engineering freshman, has been selected as one of six finalists in the Institute of Food Technologists (www.ift.org) National Undergraduate Research Paper Competition. Matt works with Dr. Bradley Marks (Associate Professor of Biosystems Engineering) as a professorial assistant, and will be giving a presentation entitled "Effect of Heating Rate on Thermal Inactivation of Salmonella in Turkey." The finalists, selected based on written abstracts submitted by students from across the country, will give oral presentations of their research on July 15 at the 2004 IFT Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada. The IFT Annual Meeting is attended by over 20,000 participants from academia, government, and the food industry, and is the leading professional/technical meeting related to the science and technology of food.
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