Award Competititons

Finalist: Alexa Barad, MS, RD – Cornell University

Finalist: Hatice Cetinkaya, MS – University of Cincinnati

Finalist: Maria Cinzori, MS (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University

Finalist: Angela KC, MSPH (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

Finalist: Maryam Seifishahpar, PhD candidate – Texas Tech University

Finalist: Fang Zhou – Arizona State University

Finalist: Alan Espinosa, MS – Harvard University

Finalist: Keren Herrán, BS – University of South Carolina

Finalist: Tori A. Holthaus, BS, RD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Finalist: Gopal Lamichhane, 97829 – Oklahoma State University

Finalist: Leigh Neptune, MS, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Maine

Finalist: Kazi Sarjana Safain, MS (she/her/hers) – North Dakota State University

Finalist: Kelly C. Cara, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Cancer Society

Finalist: Leandra Durham, MS, RD, LD – The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Finalist: Brandon D. McGuire, BS (he/him/his) – Rutgers University

Finalist: Brad Ryva, MS – Michigan State University

Finalist: Brooke E. Wickman, MS, RD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis

Chair: Liliana Aguayo, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Finalist: Ann M. Centner, PhD – Florida State University

Finalist: Yun Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Nursing

Finalist: Aaron Hengist, PhD (he/him/his) – NIDDK, National Institutes of Health

Finalist: Emily B. Hill, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Finalist: Salin Raj Palayyan, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Finalist: Bonnie K. Patchen, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Chair: Lauren E. O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center

Finalist: Mihaela A. Ciulei, PhD, MS (she/her/hers) – Micronutrient Forum

Finalist: Shalean M. Collins, PhD, MPH, RD – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Finalist: Cristian Del Bo', PhD (he/him/his) – Division of Human Nutrition, Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan

Finalist: Sin-Hye Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hallym University

Finalist: Dongqing Wang, PhD, MPH (he/him/his) – George Mason University

Finalist: Kelly C. Cara, PhD (she/her/hers) – American Cancer Society

Finalist: Apekshya Chhetri, B.Sc/M.Sc. (she/her/hers) – Purdue University

Finalist: Alexandra G. Gogel, BS – University of Idaho, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences

Finalist: Ha-Eun Lee, MS – Sookmyung Women's University

Finalist: Femi Olawale – Oklahoma State University

Finalist: Cassandra Sauer, BS – University of British Columbia

Finalist: Sulagna Bandyopadhyay, PhD – Center for Human Nutrition, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

Finalist: Rana Chehab, PhD, MPH, RD (she/her/hers) – Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research

Finalist: Longgang Zhao, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale School of Nursing

Finalist: Jingcheng Zhao, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology