AACC International Foundation Award Winners

"The award not only served as encouragement to further my academic endeavors but also enabled me to attend couple of important international conventions...it gave me a chance to exchange research ideas with fellow scientists from around the world. " -Baninder Singh Sroan AACC International Foundation Recipient

Since its inception in 1989, the AACC Intl. Foundation has focused on providing undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships to students excelling in studies relevant to grain-based food science and technology.

AACC Intl. Foundation Awards Graduate Fellowships and Undergraduate Scholarships for 2009-2010

For the school year 2009-2010, ten students received $24,500 in funding from the various Foundation endowment and scholarship funds.

Applicants had to have been majoring in a program of courses and/or participating in research that would normally lead to a career in cereal chemistry and technology (including oilseeds) or were to have taken available courses and otherwise demonstrated interest in such a career.

Recipients received their awards in September 2009, accompanied by a certificate suitable for presentation at a local section meeting or campus seminar, as arranged by the department head. Awardees are listed with their home locations, school year or degree program and major, and the amount and source (via the AACC Intl. Foundation) of the funds awarded this year.

Graduate Fellowships

AACC Intl. fellowships are only “renewable” in the sense that each year’s competition is new event, with jury members instructed that previous recipients are to be neither more nor less favored relative to other applicants. The following list of includes two awardees from a previous year, all of whom had been awarded graduate fellowships.

	Jayne Bock Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin, Madison $3,000 National Starch Graduate Fellowship
	Ya Liu MSc. student at North Dakota State University $3,000 AACC Intl. Milling & Baking Division M. Rella Dwyer Graduate Fellowship
	Yanjun Liu MSc. student at Iowa State University $2,000 Kellogg R&D Graduate Fellowship
	Stephanie Moriartey Ph.D. student at University of Alberta, Canada $2,500 AACC Intl. Elvira A. Tarleton Graduate Fellowship
	Marlene Moskowitz Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University $2,000 AACC Intl. Bill Doty Graduate Fellowship
	Nanjunda Swamy Ananda Konayakana Halli Ph.D student at Kansas State University $2,000 Harry Levine and Louise Slade Graduate Fellowship
	Debora Saibene Ph.D. student at Pennsylvania State University $3,000 Anheuser Busch/Campbell Taggart Graduate Fellowship
	Moustafa Saad Ph.D. student at Montpellier SupAgro, France $2,500 AACC Intl. Raymond J. Tarleton Graduate Fellowship
	Normell Jhoe de Mesa-Stonestreet Ph.D. student at Kansas State University $2,500 AACC Intl. Charles Becker Endowment

Undergraduate Scholarship

Like the graduate fellowships, undergraduate scholarships are renewable only in the sense that each year’s competition is a new event, with previous recipients neither more nor less favored than other applicants. 

Elyse Buckley $2,000 National Starch Undergraduate Scholarship

You may also view previous awardees of AACC International Foundation Graduate and Undergraduate scholarships.

This generous funding would not be possible with out the direct support of the Association's membership, corporate sponsors, AACC Intl. Divisions and Sections, Silent Auction proceeds as well as the volunteer time and effort of several regular and student members. Thank you to everyone who has helped support the efforts of the AACC Intl. Foundation.

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