2026 Student Presentation Awards

Viticulture (oral)

Taran Rowles (Major Professor: Dr. Michela Centinari, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park)
Long-Term Under-Vine Creeping Red Fescue: Water and Nitrogen Dynamics in an Eastern US Vineyard

Viticulture (poster)

Grace E. Lilly (Major Professor: Patricia Skinkis, Oregon State University, Corvallis)
Vine Nitrogen Dynamics: Rootstocks Alter Pinot noir Growth and Productivity More than Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen

Viticulture (flash talk)

Anugya Bhattarai (Major Professor: Dr. Gautam Shirsekar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Genomic Architecture of Coevolved Resistance and Virulence in the Wild North American Vitis-Downy Mildew Pathosystem

Enology (oral)

Zoe Scott (Major Professor: Gavin Sacks, Cornell University, New York)
Rapid Measurement of “Green” and “Moldy” Odorants in Grapes using Direct Analysis in Real Time Mass Spectrometry

Enology (poster)

Brandt Bastow (Major Professor: Selina Wang, University of California, Davis)
Spectrofluorometric Fingerprinting with Machine Learning to Triage Smoke Taint Risk in Wine

Enology (flash talk)

Delaney Dyer (Major Professor: Ben Montpetit, University of California, Davis)
Leveraging Volatile Sensing for Rapid Detection of Smoke-Derived Signatures in Grapes and Wines