Congratulations to Austin Montgomery for receiving the 2024-25 ASEV President’s Award in enology, the highest level of recognition given to students by ASEV! The award acknowledges the academic, scholarship, and service contributions made by Austin over his PhD candidacy.

Matthew Sheehan successfully defended his MS thesis, which investigated corrosion in hard to hold alcoholic beverages in aluminum cans (sour beer, wines). Following an internship at Quintessa winery, he will start a new position as an R&D engineer with Mars, Inc. And, Ana Gaby Ortiz Quezada defended her PhD thesis on deodorization of Concord juice Read More…

Austin and Rachel’s 2023 work on hydrogen sulfide formation in canned wines in the American Journal of Enology and Viticulture was selected as the Best Enology Paper of 2023. They co-presented their work at an invited seminar at the annual ASEV meeting in Portland in July 2024. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Terry Bates for successfully defending his thesis in Jan 2023 and starting a new position as an Applications Specialist with Bruker, Inc!

Congratulations to Demi for winning best Enology Presentation at the 2023 American Society of Enology and Viticulture – Eastern Section conference for her work on chemistry and sensory characterization of deodorized grape juice. Also, in 2022, Austin Montgomery won best Enology Presentation at the 2022 ASEV national meeting. A belated congratulations!  

Jessie Rafson, Ph.D candidate, was awarded a 2021 USDA-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship for her project: “Swellable Sorbent Sheets for Simple Extraction, Shipment, and Storage of Bioactive Compounds from Perishable Agricultural Samples”. See more here. Congratulations on this prestigious selection!

Demi Perry, Ph.D. candidate, adds to her previous ASEV – Eastern Section Scholarship with a 2021 ASEV Scholarship. Congratulations Demi!

Gavin Sacks was Keynote Speaker for the (virtual) 72nd Annual Conference of the American Society for Enology and Viticulture. The talk reviewed recent progress in the Sacks lab and elsewhere in our understanding of H2S, SO2 and other redox-active species in wine. Dr. Sacks was also a co-author of the 2020 Best Enology Paper in Read More…

Noam Reshef was selected as a recipient for a Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) – Vaadia post-doctoral fellowship. The fellowship provides one of year of support for Noam’s work on malic metabolism in domesticated and wild grapes, with an opportunity to renew. Congratulations Noam! Gavin

Lots of American Society for Enology and Viticulture (ASEV) successes from Rachel Allison and Demi Perry in 2020. Rachel Allison received the ASEV Presidents’ Award for Enology, and also was selected for 1st place for Best Student Video Presentation Award in Enology at the virtual ASEV Student Presentation Competition for her research on the stability of Read More…