8/9/2017  Source: Office of Communication Services, CTAHR

TPSS grad student Aimee Uyehara was named Regional Prize Winner for the essay she submitted to the Syngenta Agricultural Scholarship program. She was awarded $1,000, and her essay advances to compete for the National Prize award of $6,000. Aimee, who is studying leaf growth of corn with Michael Muszynski, also won the Gamma Sigma Delta MS Student Oral Presentation award at the 2017 Student Research Symposium.