Delaware State University

Plant Molecular Breeding Lab

Richmond was selected for the Bridge Scholarship Award (2024) by the American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and Soil Science Society of America (SSSA) to present his research at the CSSA International Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

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  • Richmond won first place in the Plant Breeding and Data Analytics Hackathon (2024) and was recognized as an Encompass Fellow (2024), sponsored by Bayer Crop Science.

  • Nefertiti Griffin has been selected as the Marie Clark Taylor Fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. A fellowship named after Dr. Marie Clark Taylor, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in Botany. Through this fellowship, she had the incredible opportunity to attend two amazing conferences in Lincoln, Nebraska: the 2025 McFadden Symposium for Wheat Research and the Nebraska Plant Science Symposium.

  • Lauren Waller was a recipient of the Marie Clark Taylor Fellowship and was nominated to represent Delaware State University at the Coalition for Grain Fiber Workshop in 2023.

  • PMB lab master’s degree graduates, Oluwatomi Esther Jacobs and Venkata Hemanth Limmada received the Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship at Cornell University for the 2022-2023 school year.

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    News links:

    https://www.desu.edu/news/2024/03/dsus-dr-kalpalatha-melmaiee-honored- international-womens-day
    https://www.desu.edu/news/2024/06/dsu-researchers-travel-senegal-meet-west-african- partners
    https://baytobaynews.com/stories/delaware-state-university-research-joins- project-to-develop-climate-change-resistant-crops,121284
    https://www.desu.edu/news/2022/05/dr-kalpalatha-melmaiee-named-fulbright- specialist
    https://cals.cornell.edu/news/2022/06/inaugural-turner-fellows-advance-global- food-security
    https://delawarebusinesstimes.com/news-briefs/delaware-state-university-300k- genetics/
    https://www.desu.edu/news/2023/05/dsu-usaid-global-resilience-day-conf-held- campus
    https://www.desu.edu/news/2023/03/dr-melmaiee-leads-blueberry-research-team
    https://hbcuconnect.com/content/359691/usda-awards-delaware-state-university- 599-905-grant-for-strawberry-research
    https://www.ext.vsu.edu/connection-vol-5/vsu-agricultural-researchers-awarded- more-than-1-million-in-grants

    March 30, 2021 - Ms. Lungowe Mulozi successfully defended her thesis on “Physiological and Transcriptomic Analysis of Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum) under Drought Stress”

    March 29, 2021 - Rosalyn Battle successfully defended her thesis on “Efficacy of Potassium-Silicate on Strawberry for Agronomic Traits and Anti-Fungal Activity”

    March 26, 2021 - Mr. Byron Manzanero successfully defended his thesis on “Evaluation of Genetic Diversity in Blueberry (Vaccinum spp.) Germplasm utilizing Genotyping-by-Sequencing”