Congratulations to our Jastro & Shields award recipients!

Three AgChem PhD students received the 2025-2026 Jastro-Shields fellowship award for their research proposals on:

Angela (left)- “Tracing Pesticide Flow in Honey Bee Colonies Using Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS): Mapping Physical and Biological Hotspots

Eli (middle)– Mechanisms of Cellular Uptake and Toxicity of Inhaled Pollutant-Absorbed Nanoplastics”

Zeke (right)– “Determining the Extent to Which Microplastics have Infiltrated a Protected Marine Ecosystem”