Congratulations to Terry Bates for successfully defending his thesis in Jan 2023 and starting a new position as an Applications Specialist with Bruker, Inc!
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Demi Perry wins 2023 ASEV-ES Best Presentation award; Austin Montgomery wins 2022 ASEV Best Presentation
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 receives USDA Predoctoral Fellowship
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 receives American Society for Enology & Viticulture Scholarship
Demi Perry, Ph.D. candidate, adds to her previous ASEV – Eastern Section Scholarship with a 2021 ASEV Scholarship. Congratulations Demi!
Gavin Sacks selected for keynote speaker at annual American Society for Enology and Viticulture conference
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 awarded a BARD-Vaadia Post-doctoral Fellowship
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
Rachel and Demi – ASEV Awards and Best Presentations
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…
Madeleine (Bee) DiGregorio defends PhD
Belated post: Madeleine Bee defended her PhD in Fall 2019 and started a new job at Shimadzu Scientific as a Applications Specialist for GC-MS. Congratulations Madeleine
Madeleine Bee – 2nd place in ACS – Ag Food Division Grad Student Competition
Congratulations to Madeleine Bee for her runner-up finish at the ACS – AGFD Graduate Student Competition, held in New Orleans, LA in Spring 2019. Madeleine spoke on her work using SPMESH sheets for high throughput volatile measurements
Elizabeth Burzynski-Chang successfully defends her PhD; New job at Va Tech
Congratulations to Beth Burzynski-Chang for defending her PhD thesis. She now moves to Blacksburg to become the Extension Enologist in the Department of Food Science & Technology at Virginia Tech.