# Graduate Spotlights
**Source**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/arge/graduate-programs/graduate-spotlights.html
**Parent**: https://ag.purdue.edu/department/ansc/scholarships.html
# GRADUATE SPOTLIGHTS
Kendall Cottingham, Biochemistry
Binayak Kunwar, Agricultural Economics
## 2026
- [February - Kendall Cottingham, Biochemistry](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2026/02/graduate-spotlight-cottingham.html)
- [March - Binayak Kunwar, Agricultural Economics](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2026/03/graduate-spotlight-kunwar.html)
## Previous Years
2025
- [December - Ian Rimer, Botany & Plant Pathology](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/12/graduate-spotlight-rimer.html)
- [November - Rick Hernandez, Animal Sciences](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/11/graduate-spotlight-hernandez.html)
- [October - Leo Koenigsfeld, Horticulture & Landscape Architecture](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/10/graduate-spotlight-koenigsfeld.html)
- [September - Jinyuan Shao, Forestry and Natural Resources](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/09/graduate-spotlight-shao.html)
- [August - Alex Wassgren, Agronomy](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/08/graduate-spotlight-wassgren.html)
- [July - Harsh Pathak, Agricultural and Biological Engineering](https://ag.purdue.edu/department/arge/graduate-programs/grad-spots/_media-grad-spots/harsh-pathak_spot.jpg)
- [June - Sadhana Chhetri, Entomology](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/06/graduate-spotlight-chhetri.html)
- [May - Oseremi Olivia Jagbojo, Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/05/graduate-spotlight-jagbojo.html)
- [April - Michelle Lihon, Biochemistry](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/04/graduate-spotlight-lihon.html)
- [March - Maria Filipa Seara e Pereira, Agricultural Economics](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/03/graduate-spotlight-seara-e-pereira.html)
- [February - Han Chen, Food science](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/02/graduate-spotlight-han-chen.html)
- [January - Lynda Godwin Peter, Agronomy](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2025/01/graduate-spotlight-lynda-godwin-peter.html)
2024
- [December - Sophia Dasaro, Agricultural and Biological Engineering](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/12/graduate-spotlight-sophia-dasaro.html)
- [November - Jong Yoon Jeon, Forestry and Natural Resources](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/11/graduate-spotlight-jong-yoon-jeon.html)
- [October - Frederick "Freddie" Mildenhall, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/10/graduate-spotlight-frederick-mildenhall.html)
- [September - Sienna Ogawa, Botany and Plant Pathology](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/09/graduate-spotlight-sienna-ogawa.html)
- [August, Jhacolby Williams, Agronomy](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/08/graduate-spotlight-jhacolby-williams.html)
- [July - Vitor Santos Haetinger, Animal Sciences](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/07/graduate-spotlight-vitor-santos-haetinger.html)
- [June - Sarah Stanhope, Biochemistry](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/06/graduate-spotlight-sarah-stanhope.html)
- [May - Austin Berenda, Agricultural Economics](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/05/graduate-spotlight-austin-berenda.html)
- [April - Nicholas Gallina, Food Science](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/04/graduate-spotlight-nicholas-gallina.html)
- [March - Teomie Rivera-Miranda, Entomology](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/03/graduate-spotlight-rivera-miranda.html)
- [February - Mariah K. Stollar Awan, Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/02/graduate-spotlight-mariah-awan.html)
- [January - Zhihang Song, Agricultural and Biological Engineering](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2024/01/graduate-spotlight-zhihang-song.html)
2023
- [December - Mary Strickland, Forestry and Natural Resources](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/12/graduate-spotlight-mary-strickland.html)
- [November - Emmanuel Cooper, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/11/graduate-spotlight-emmanuel-cooper.html)
- [October - Maliheh Shaltouki Rizi, Agronomy](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/10/graduate-spotlight-maliheh-rizi.html)
- [September - Denise Caldwell, Botany And Plant Pathology](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/09/graduate-spotlight-denise-caldwell.html)
- [August - Esther Oluwagbenga, Animal Sciences](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/08/graduate-spotlight-esther-oluwagbenga.html)
- [July - Jiaxin Long, Biochemistry](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/07/graduate-spotlight-jiaxin-long.html)
- [June - Emily Forsythe, Agricultural Economics](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/06/graduate-spotlight-forsythe.html)
- [**May - Harrison Helmick, Food Science**](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/05/graduate-spotlight-helmick.html)
- [**April - Olivia Gearner, Entomology**](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/04/graduate-spotlight-gearner.html)
- [March - Lauren Murfree, Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/03/graduate-spotlight-murfree.html)
- [February - Jennifer Rackliffe, Agricultural and Biological Engineering](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/02/graduate-spotlight-rackliffe.html)
- [January - R.D. Sample, Forestry and Natural Resources](https://ag.purdue.edu/news/department/arge/2023/01/graduate-spotlight-rd.html)
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