A huge congratulations goes out to Dr. Bryan Jenkins, who was recently selected by the M-131 Fellow committee and elected by the ASABE Board of Trustees to the Grade of ASABE Fellow!
This is an honorary status to which members of distinction of the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers must be elected. This action reflects the high regard that awardees are held by members of the Society. It also recognizes the significant contributions they have made to the profession.
Congratulations to Dr. Tina Jeoh, who has been selected to be a 2016-17 Chancellor’s Fellow!
With this honor, Dr. Jeoh will receive a monetary award to be used in support of her research, teaching and service activities, and will be recognized along with the other Chancellor’s Fellows at a special reception.
Congressman John Garamendi honored Jean VanderGheynst during the 2016 Women of the Year Awards ceremony on Thursday, October 13. The award recognizes outstanding women of the 3rd Congressional District.
Dr. Bornhorst is featured on our university’s news website, in a story called “New Machine Simulates Human Digestion to Improve Nutrition”. The story focuses on her creation of a machine that might help people make better decisions about when to eat, what to eat and how to prepare food to meet their own personal nutritional needs.
See the full article on the UC Davis News website, and congratulations to Dr. Bornhorst!
Professor Upadhyaya’s water stress sensor for vineyards and orchards recently garnered attention from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, as well as the Davis Enterprise and Phys.org. The sensor attaches to a single leaf to measure temperature, light, wind and humidity to help optimize plant irrigation.
Congratulations to professors David Slaughter and Fadi Fatallah, whose paper “Co-robotic intra-row weed control system” has won the Biosystems Engineering Outstanding Paper Adward. This was presented at the EurAgEng Assembly yesterday in Aahrus University (Denmark).
The paper was co-authored by Manuel Pérez-Ruíza, David C. Slaughter, Fadi A. Fathallah, Chris J. Gliever and Brandon J. Miller. It appeared in Biosystems Engineering, Vllume 126, October 2014.
The Vice Provost and Associate Chancellor of Global Affairs, Joanna Regulsksa, announced that Dr. Fadi Fathallah has been appointed the Associate Vice Provost for Global Education and Services, Global Affairs as of July 1, 2016. She writes:
Dr. Gail Bornhorst was one of five 2015-16 Mentoring at Critical Transitions Fellowship awardees, which are presented by the School of Graduate Studies. Her project, titled Enhancing teaching and presentation skills using microteaching principles, and her graduate student mentees, Yamile Mennah, Sarah O’Meara and Krista Drechsler, are featured on the graduate school webpage.
The Senate of the University of Guelph approved a recommendation that Dr. Singh be awarded degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa.
In his award letter, they explained that this degree is awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions to research in agricultural and food science, and his global dissemination of food processing knowledge and technologies. It went on to say that his leadership and innovative approaches to sharing have significantly advanced the field of food science and technology around the world.
Dr. Irwin Donis-González’s passion for agriculture and postharvest technologies began 10 years ago in his native Guatemala, working as an independent agro consultant upon earning his Bachelor’s and Licentiate degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Del Valle University of Guatemala.
