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CSA Graduate Student Awards
The Canadian Society of Agronomy Graduate Student Awards include:

• Ali Navabi Grad Student Travel Awards were established in 2013 to encourage
student attendance at the CSA Annual Meetings and is available to any graduate student
CSA member. The Student Travel Award is $500 with a maximum of 5 awarded annually.
• Pest Management Award includes an award of $500 available to a graduate student
enrolled at a Canadian University with research programs relevant to pest management.
The award is accompanied by a grant to cover registration at the CSA Virtual Annual
General Meeting and present on his/her research project.
• Student Presentation and Poster Awards - A number of awards are awarded at the
CSA Annual General Meeting for the best oral and poster presentations given by
graduate student members. The awards are presented after an assessment conducted
by a panel of judges. Up to $2,000.00 total is awarded for graduate student oral and
poster presentations.

Graduate students must be a member of CSA to apply for the above awards.

Below are the Graduate Student Award Winners for 2023.

2023 Ali Navabi Student Travel Awards
• Natalie LaForest
• Yutong Jiang
• Mohammed Antar
• Sharandeep Singh
• Syed Jahanzaib Rasool Bukhari

2023 Pest Management Award
• Vincent Fetterley

2023 Student Presentation and Poster Awards:

Oral Awards
1 - $700, Yutong Jiang: Water-conducting roots responsible for nitrogen uptake in maize (Zea
st
mays)
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2 - Natalie LaForest: Investigating the role of Pterostichus melanarius in agricultural pest
predation in wheat (Triticum aestivum) and hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) in Alberta
3 - Riley McConachie: Winter wheat genotype-Fusarium graminearum isolate interactions
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using the detached wheat head bioassay method

Poster Awards
1 , Syed Jahanzaib Rasool Bukhari: Agronomic performance of inter-seeded legume-cereal
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Cover crops mixtures in silage corn in boreal climate
2 , Fernando Guerrero Zurita: Identifying superior photosynthetic traits in canola Brassica
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napus gene pool
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3 - Farzana Yasmin: Integrating bio-strip tillage into overwintering cover crop mixtures prior to
grain corn (Zea mays L.)

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