BAE donor Professor Emeritus
Charles Suggs presents awards to recipients’ of the Jane P. & Charles W. Suggs Scholarship
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About the Student Awards
Student awards are presented each spring at the Annual Bio & Ag Student Awards Banquet. This event gives the department the opportunity to recognize our achieving students, to reflect on the years events and to recognize the efforts of the departments Advisory Board, and others who have made the year memorable. However, most importantly it provides and opportunity to meet and thank scholarship and fellowship donors and all those who have helped to financially support the department with funds and gifts. Our financial supporters truly "Bring Engineering to Life"
The Bio&Ag students of today will be enhancing industry tomorrow. They will be protecting and caring for our environment. They will be engineering our food, fiber and alternative fuels. By providing students a quality education we live our motto...
2013 Awards and Achievements
Undergraduate Scholarships
- Taylor Barto—NC Section of ASABE Scholarship
- Kathleen Bell—Jane P. and Charles W. Suggs Scholarship
- Casey Bledsoe—Barbara and George Blum Scholarship
- Mackenzie Blum—Park Scholarship
- Dustin Brann—NC Section of ASABE Scholarship & T. Newton and Josephine Cook Scholarship
- Julia Burroughs—Lewis A. Sikes Scholarship
- Alex Cordaro—Josephus Daniels Scholarship
- Emily Darr—E.J. Tyson Scholarship & Arthur Glenn Corpening Scholarship
- Morgan Drake—Jane P. and Charles W. Suggs Scholarship
- Matthew Hinson—Jane P. and Charles W. Suggs Scholarship
- Benjamin Hobson—Fred G. Bond Tobacco Scholarship
- Nicholas Lannon—NC Section of ASABE Scholarship
- Zachary Lentz—Jane P. and Charles W. Suggs Scholarship
- Thomas Lineberger—NC Section ASABE Scholarship & Olaf and Rosa A. Wakefield Scholarship
- Katy Mazer—Ronald E. Sneed North Carolina Irrigation Society Scholarship
- Ashley Mendenhall—Dorothy and Eustace Beasley Biological & Agricultural Engineering Scholarship, I. Tunis and Bernardina B. Corbell Scholarship
- Benjamin Mills—Dumaine Farms Production Agriculture Scholarship Award ·
- John Norwood—Dumaine Farms Production Agriculture Scholarship Award ·
- David Phipps—H. Carlisle and Frankie C. Booth Scholarship ·
- Kaelin Saul—J.C. and Nancy Ferguson Scholarship & Joe Martin Bank of America Renewable Scholarship·
- Rebecca Stubbs—J. Phillip and Gloria K. Kennett Scholarship
Undergraduate Achievements
- Sarah Bucher—College of Engineering Ambassador
- Emily Darr—College of Engineering Ambassador
- Marissa Grisham—College of Engineering Ambassador
- Breanne Long—College of Engineering Ambassador, Director of Membership for the North Atlantic Region of the National Association of Student Engineering Councils
- Ashley Mendenhall—Study Abroad Scholarship to Australia, Gamma Sigma Delta Inductee ·
- Charles Parrish—F. Scott and Mary Dell Chilton Undergraduate Research Award, NC Space Grant Undergraduate Research Scholarship, Undergraduate Research Symposium Winner
Undergraduate Student Awards
- Bryan Maxwell—BAE Citizenship and Service Award
- Emily Darr—BAE Leadership Award
- Katy Mazer—BAE Scholarly Achievement                             Â
- Ashley Mendenhall—College of Engineering Faculty Senior Scholarship Nominee
- Kaelin Saul—ASABE Student Honor Award
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Graduate Felowships & Scholarships
- Jessica Fears—College of Engineering Graduate Merit Award
- Nicole Dobbs—College of Engineering Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship, University Graduate Fellowship,
and F.J. Hassler Fellowship
- Adrienne Cizek—EPA STAR Fellowship
- Alessandra Smolek—College of Engineering Graduate Merit Award
- Veronica Mbaneme—National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Laura Merriman—National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- Tiffany Messer—EPA STAR Fellowship
Graduate Student Achievements
- Veronica Mbaneme—2013 ASABE Superior Paper Award, PFL Graduate Leadership Development Certificate
- Nicole Dobbs—2012 ABE Best Thesis Award, University of Florida
- Randall Etheridge—2012 CALS Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop Participant
- Mark Fernandez—Phi Kappa Phi Inductee
- Matthew Whitfield—2012 CALS Graduate Student Professional Development Workshop Participant
- Robert L. Vick—2012 Irrigation Foundation “Irrigation E3 Learner”

