MSU honors top graduate students, faculty mentors
Contact: Aspen Harris
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State is honoring exceptional graduate students and faculty mentors for their contributions in teaching, research and service in the 2023-2024 academic year.
This year’s honorees include:
Outstanding Graduate Student Advisor of the Year
—Brandon Cline, the John “Nutie” and Edie Dowdle Professor of Finance and coordinator of finance graduate programs.
Graduate Research Assistant of the Year
—Gabe Nyen of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, a master’s student in forestry.
—Jiaxin Wang of China, a doctoral student in forestry.
Donald Zacharias Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year
—Caroline Ferrell of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a master’s student in mathematics and statistics.
—Junnatun Naym of Bangladesh, a doctoral student in finance and economics.
Graduate Service Assistant of the Year
—Mallie Donald of Edwards, a doctoral student in higher education leadership, educational psychology and foundations.
—Carley Hand of Hattiesburg, a master’s student in higher education leadership, educational psychology and foundations.
Graduate Student Hall of Fame inductees
—Brantley Ballenger of Hoover, Alabama, a kinesiology student representing the College of Education.
—Mozur Chowdhury of Bangladesh, a comparative biomedical science student representing the College of Veterinary Medicine.
—Md Mehedi Farhad of Bangladesh, an electrical and computer engineering student representing the Bagley College of Engineering.
—Junnatun Naym of Bangladesh, a finance and economics student representing the College of Business.
—Jenna Russo of Winter Springs, Florida, a psychology student representing the College of Arts and Sciences.
—Emma Schultz of Silver Spring, Maryland, a wildlife, fisheries and aquaculture student representing the College of Forest Resources.
—Ramandeep Kumar Sharma of India, a plant and soil sciences student representing the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
For more on MSU’s graduate degree programs, visit www.grad.msstate.edu.
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