Award Winning Graduate Students

Savery Award winner Wilfrido Contreras-Sanchez

Wilfrido Contreras-Sanchez was awarded the Savery Outstanding Graduate Student Award by the Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences. The Savery award, sponsored by the Agricultural Research Foundation, recognizes graduate students whose research benefits Oregon agriculture and natural resources. Contreras-Sanchez is a faculty member at Universidad Juarez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT) and a doctoral student at OSU, working on CRSP Reproduction Control Research. The award was presented at the Great Achievements of Students Celebration held 18 May 2000 on the OSU campus.

Diego Valderrama, recipient of two awards and a master's degree.

In addition to completing a master's degree at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Diego Valderrama won two awards recently. He received a plaque and a check for one of the best student abstracts submitted to Aquaculture 2000 from the US Aquaculture Society for his paper "Risk Analysis of Shrimp Farming in Honduras." He was also awarded Best Graduate Student Paper in the School of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Human Sciences at the 2000 UAPB Annual Research Forum for his paper entitled "A Risk Programming Model for Shrimp Farming in Honduras." The forum was held 15-16 March 2000 on the UAPB campus.