2021

• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received the Weed Science Society of America Travel Enrichment Experience (TEE) award (2021)
• Vikas Tyagi (PhD student) received the College Excellence Fellowship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2021)

2020

• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received first place oral presentation award in the ASA-CSSA-SSSA virtual annual meeting (2020)
• Chengsong Hu (PhD student) received second place poster presentation award in the ASA-CSSA-SSSA virtual annual meeting (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received first place poster presentation award in the ASA-CSSA-SSSA virtual annual meeting (2020)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received third place poster presentation award in the ASA-CSSA-SSSA virtual annual meeting (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award with the Association for Agricultural Scientists of Indian Origin (AASIO), ASA-CSSA-SSSA (2020)
• Gustavo Silva Camargo (MS student) was selected as the Bayer Diversity Initiative Scholar/Early Career by ASA-CSSA-SSSA (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity was selected as the student leadership fellow by the ASA-CSSA-SSA (2020)
• Vikas Tyagi (PhD student) received the College Excellence Fellowship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Matthew Kutugata (PhD student) received the Lechner Graduate Grant from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Jodie Reisner (PhD student) received the Lechner Graduate Grant from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Sarah Kezar (PhD student) received the College Merit Fellowship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• McKenzie Barth (MS student) received the College Excellence Fellowship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Sarah Kezar (PhD student) received the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) Fellowship (2020)
• Jodie Reisner (PhD student) received the University Diversity Fellowship offered by Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Matthew Kutugata (PhD student) received the College Merit Fellowship offered by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Gustavo Silva (MS student) received the University Diversity Fellowship offered by Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received the ASA-CSSA-SSSA Nelson Yield Limiting Factors Graduate Student Scholarship (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) was recognized as the CITRL Associate Fellow, by the Academy for Future Faculty, Texas A&M University, College Station (2020)
• Spencer Samuelson (PhD student) received first place poster presentation award at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Maui, Hawaii (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received second place poster presentation award at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, Maui, Hawaii (2020)
• Bishwa Sapkota received funding to attend a workshop on image analysis and precision agriculture, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (2020)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received second place oral presentation award at the Southern Weed Science Society annual meeting, Biloxi, MS (2020)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) received first place poster presentation award at the Southern Weed Science Society annual meeting, Biloxi, MS (2020)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received the outstanding graduate student research award by the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, TAMU (2020)

2019

• Chengsong Hu (PhD student) received first place poster presentation award at the Texas Plant Protection Association (TPPA) meeting (2019)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received the Tom Slick Graduate Fellowship offered by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2019)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) received second place poster presentation award at the Texas Plant Protection Association (TPPA) meeting (2019)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Wilding Travel Award (SCSC) for a short research visit to CIMMYT, Mexico (2019)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) received the Dean’s Outstanding Graduate Research Award (2019)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) received the Texas Plant Protection Association Outstanding MS Student Award (2019)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received first place oral presentation award at the ASA-CSSA-SSA meeting, San Antonio, TX (2019)
• Spencer Samuelson (PhD student) received third place poster award at the ASA-CSSA-SSA meeting, San Antonio, TX (2019)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Gerald O. Mott Meritorious Student Award from the Crop Science Society of America (2019)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) was selected as the student leadership fellow by the ASA-CSSA-SSA (2019)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Endeavour Australia Leadership Award to conduct short research at the University of Western Australia, Perth (2019)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) received 2nd place PhD oral competition award in the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2019)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received 2nd place PhD poster competition award in the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2019)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) received 3rd place MS oral competition award in the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2019)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) received 2nd place MS poster competition award in the Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK (2019)
• Spencer Samuelson (PhD student) received 2nd place PhD poster competition award in the Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK (2019)
• Cynthia Sias (MS student) was selected as a recipient of a Graduate Travel Award from the Weed Science Society of America (2019)
• Spencer Samuelson (PhD student) received a travel grant to attend Southern Cover Crops Conference in Gainesville, FL (2019)
• Aniruddha Maity (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Smith Travel Award (SCSC) to conduct short research at Cornell University (2019)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Smith Travel award (SCSC) to visit Purdue University (2019)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the GPSC travel award (TAMU) to visit UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil (2019)

2018

• Spencer Samuelson (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) graduate student fellowship (2018)
• Prabhu Govindasamy (PhD student) secured the first place overall individual award in herbicide symptomology section at the Southern Weed Contest, Memphis, TN (2018)
• Prabhu Govindasamy (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Gerald O. Mott Meritorious Student Award from the Crop Science Society of America (2018)
• Kaisa Werner (MS student) received the second place poster presentation award at the 2018 Texas A&M Plant Breeding Symposium, College Station, TX (2018)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) received the second place poster presentation award at the 2018 Southern Weed Science Society annual meeting, Atlanta, GA (2018)
• Kaisa Werner (MS student) received the first place poster presentation award at the 2018 Southern Weed Science Society annual meeting, Atlanta, GA (2018)
• Bishwa Sapkota (PhD student) received the COALS Strategic Research Scholarship by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station (2018)

2017

• Seth Abugho (PhD student) received the second place poster presentation award at the 2017 Texas Plant Protection Association Meeting, Bryan, TX (2017)
• Prabhu Govindasamy (PhD student) received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences (2017)
• Rui Liu (PhD student) received a scholarship from Asia Rice Foundation to attend a short course on ‘Rice Research to Production’ at the International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos, Philippines (2017)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) was placed 3rd overall individual at the Southern Weed Contest, Vero Beach, FL (2017)
• Prabhu Govindasamy (PhD student) was placed 10th overall individual at the Southern Weed Contest, Vero Beach, FL (2017)
• Seth Abugho (PhD student) was selected as a recipient of the Anne’s Sustainable Agriculture Scholarship (2017)
• Russ Garetson (MS student) was placed second in poster competition at the Southern Weed Science Society Annual Meeting, Birmingham, AL (2017)

2016

Undergraduate students

• Caitlin Lakey, BS student trained as part of the SCSC489/689 course was placed as the highest overall individual (undergraduate section) at the Southern Weed Contest, Vero Beach, FL (2017)
• Hao Sheng-Lin, BS student trained as part of the SCSC489/689 course was placed as the third highest overall individual (undergraduate section) at the Southern Weed Contest, Vero Beach, FL (2017)
• Shirley Engelke, undergraduate researcher received an undergraduate research award from the Weed Science Society of America (2016)
• Zach Schaefer, BS student trained as part of the SCSC489/689 course was placed as the second highest overall individual at the Southern Weed Contest, Scott, MS (2016)

Staff

• Debalin Sarangi, Postdoctoral Research Assistant was selected as the recipient of the    2019 SCSC Outstanding Postdoctoral Award (2019