Undergraduate students honored by school and college

Burgan was a member of the Virginia Tech Soil Judging Team, which placed second in the regional competition in 2022. She has also worked in Bryan Brown’s lab where she conducted research into ephemeral waterways and aquatic community restructuring after dry events. The results were presented at the Dennis Dean Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Naughton-Rockwell was a member of the Soil Judging Team, which won first place in the regional and national competitions in 2021 and 2022. Naughton-Rockwell also worked with the Global Agriculture Productivity Initiative and performed research with the Conservation Agriculture Adoption Project in Ecuador.