Candace Coats (Senior, Dietetics and Consumer Foods) has been awarded the Rita Waters Scholarship by the Georgia Nutrition Council. The scholarship will help defray some expenses associated with her dietetics internship.

Ju Young (Jill) Lee (Master’s Student, Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors) has been named the winner of an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Georgia.

Yiping Lu (PhD Student, Textile Sciences) won the graduate school paper competition at the annual conference of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists meeting. His paper was titled, “Analysis of Sulphonated Azo Dyes Degraded by White Rot Fungus Pleurotus Ostreatus.”

Desiree Paulin (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) has received a $1,000 seed grant from the UGA Institute of Gerontology for her research project titled, “Grandmothers and Granddaughters: Defining Womanhood through Intergenerational Interactions.”

Ryan Peterson (PhD Student, Child and Family Development) has been named the winner of an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the University of Georgia.

Norman Pollock (PhD Student, Foods and Nutrition; MS, ’04, Foods and Nutrition; BSFCS ’02, Dietetics; BSED ’98, Health Promotion and Behavior) has been awarded the Research Presentation Award by the Georgia Nutrition Council for his two-year research project on body fatness and bone properties of pre-pubertal females.

Genni Lynn Trousdale (Senior, Furnishings and Interiors) was awarded an honorable mention for her kitchen design in the National Kitchen and Bath Association Student Design Competition.

Hong Yu (PhD Student, Textile Sciences) and Hang Liu (PhD Student, Textile Sciences) have been selected as finalists in the American Association for Textile and Color Chemists’ Engineering Design Competition. They are now preparing to submit their product development project – a breathable non-woven surgical gown that prevents transmission of small biological particles – for the final evaluation and judging in the fall. Karen Leonas is their major advisor.