The April 18 Awards banquet brought a crowd of 300+ to the Purdue Memorial Union. The student awards include the 2019 Senior Capstone/Design Experience Poster Contest Winners: BE Group 1 - First place, Environmentally Sustainable Soy Supplemented IPA; Second place, Dark Chocolate Production. BE Group 2 - First place, Design of an Herbal Prebiotic Tablet: A Novel Dietary Supplement; Second place, Water Purification Process. BE Group 3 - First place, Hydroponic System for Microgreen Growth; Second place, What's the Scoop? Alcoholic Ice Cream. Environmental and Natural Resources - First place, Residential Drainage Design; Second place, Village of Hope Haiti Kitchen Garden. Vehicle Competitions:First place, miniPUP IV; Second place, NFPA Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge. Power and Machinery - First place, Skid steer attachment; Second place, Wagon Suspension. Automation - First place, Robotic Leaf Scanning System; Second place, Seed Bag Depalletizer. All of our students had excellent projects and we were proud to highlight them.

The ABE 304: Bioprocess Engineering Lab class went on their annual tour of the Lafayette Tate+Lyle processing facilities. This tour is included in the course to demonstrate the connection between what students learn in class and how those concepts are translated at an industrial scale. The students were impressed with the intricacies of the processes and the logistics required to operate on a daily basis. A big thank you to Tate & Lyle for allowing our students to tour.

Jennifer Stevens received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, a 3-year, nationally recognized fellowship. This program "recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Jenny is one of only 2,051 students receiving the award this year. Congratulations!

Sungwuk Choi (Biological Engineering), Eung Baek (Andy) Kim (Biological Engineering), Lauren Oparah (Biological Engineering), Thomas Smith (1^st Year Engineering) and Chris Tague (Chemistry) have been awarded the 2019 ASPIRE Internship.

ASPIRE will allow successful competitors from the 2018-19 Purdue Student Soybean Innovation Competition to continue working on their soy-based products with a paid internship.

ASPIRE students will participate in research and customer delivery activities on campus full-time for 9 weeks during the summer.  Students will conduct research, attend professional development seminars, build their research network, and advance their soy-based prototype towards commercialization and/or a student start-up company.

The ABE Graduate Student Association (ABEGSA) recently held elections for the academic year 2019-2020. We would like to thank everyone in ABE for their support for this year's outgoing ABE-GSA Board. Thank you so much for your help and feedback in helping us to reach our potential. Here is next year's board: President - Diana Ramirez Gutierrez; Vice-President - Tae Sup Lee; Secretary - Jennifer Stevens; Treasurer - Camilo Torres Pardo; Professional Development Chairs - Sneha Jha, Elena Robles Molina; Social Chairs - Samantha Neeno, Mahmoud Nour; Recruitment Chairs - Jonathan Overton, Bilal James Abughali; PSG Senator - Val Schull. Congratulations to all of the new officers! We look forward to another great year ahead!

Alpha Mu, the Agricultural Systems Management honorary society inducted its latest members in a second Spring initiation and elected next year's officers. Left to right, Will Armand, Jon Neff, Trent Howard, Devine Tracy (Current President),  Henry Terhune (President Elect), Brice Rekewig (Vice President Elect), and Garret Smith (Treasurer Elect), on April 3^rd.  President Devine Tracy and Advisor Bob Stwalley conducted the initiation Alpha Mu’s faculty advisors are Dharmendra Saraswat, Bob Stwalley, and Roger Tormoehlen.

Mahmoud Nour was selected to receive the International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH) Conference Student Award. He will attend the 2019 ISASH Conference June 24-27 in Des Moines, Iowa. Congrats, Mahmoud!