Gamma Sigma Delta Inducts New Members
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A group photo of agribusiness and food industry management and agricultural science students who were inducted into the Cal Poly Pomona chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta honor society posing with department chair Jon Phillips.
More than 80 Huntley College of Agriculture students, faculty, lecturers and staff were inducted earlier this month into the Gamma Sigma Delta honor society.
The Cal Poly Pomona chapter of the honor society held its annual induction ceremony on May 9 at AGRIscapes.
Gamma Sigma Delta is a national honor society dedicated to recognizing students, faculty, alumni, or supporters in the agricultural area. Inductees are nominated or invited by the local chapter to join the organization.
Prospective inductees must meet the following criteria:
- Undergraduate nominees must be junior students who rank in the top 5 percent of their class and senior students who rank in the upper 15 percent of their class; they also must show promise of leadership.
- Graduate students must have at least a
3.5 grade point average, show great potential for future leadership, be nominated by chapter members, and elected. - Faculty nominees must have worked for at least three years in agriculture and related sciences at the initiating university and exhibited outstanding achievement in the areas of teaching, research, and/or extension.
- Alumni are eligible for election five or more years after graduation if they have provided outstanding service to agriculture.
- Individuals who are involved in agricultural or related sciences as leaders at the university, community, state, regional, or national level but who are not eligible in the above categories, may be invited to honorary membership. Each chapter is limited to electing on honorary member per year.
The 2018 inductees include:
Ag Business/Food Industry/Ag Science
Haley Nicole Chappell
James Jia Jun Chow
Serene M. Janes-Taylor
Ashley Kim
Thuan Ngoc Le
Talia Narduzzi
Charles E. Porter
Thais Michelle Spiropoulos
James H. Weeks
Apparel Merchandising and Management
Jessica D’Ambra
Lauren Jacoby
Emily Jeanne Kerr
Valerie Suryahadiputra
Tina Vu
Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Nikki R. Barker
Nicole Becker
Juan M. Castellanos
Ryan Jacob (R.J.) Chang
Kasey Dahlgren
Taylor Doole
Marina Duveneck
Leobardo S. Escalante
David Santiago Galindo Diaz
Kayla Garcia
Glenda Ibarra
Timothy Ivey
Brianna E. Kelley
Kirsten A.
Taylor Adriana Marin
Alena Eliel Mercado Martinez
Kathryn Mello
Norma Morfin Lopez
Caitlyn Nelson
Adi Hana Oz
Britney C. Pok
Matthew Wilson Pulford
Vickie E. Reyes
Brianna Nicole Stuewe
Christina S. Tao
Andrea Ticas
Devynn Volding
Courtney Welch
Taylor M. Youngquist
Human Nutrition and Food Science
Marta Barys
Melinda Megan Cates
Roger Chou
Eduardo Cortes
Nallely Farias
Haoran Mai
Sandy Nhan
Alycen Parsons
Plant Science
Timothy Batz
Benjamin Reed Brown
Miranda Mikel Buckley
Michelle Froelich
Alan Melgoza-Calderon
Kathleen D. Nunez
Jacob Pete Spence
Joseph Gazing Wolf
Graduate Students
Shirin Mal Ganji
Shannen Hilse
Sarah Paige Risorto
Christina Romero
Alexis Smith
Desiree Lizette Vera
Hung Yuen Wong
Faculty/Staff/Lecturer
Cord M. Brundage
Chad Cleveland
Eileen Cullen
Kathleen Earle
Brad Foyil
Ondieki Gekara
Donna
Katie Marie Horvath
Adam Mason
David Matias
Lauren G. Meeks
Marguerite Mulhall
Robbie Myers
Joanne Sohn
Dianne Thuy Trinh
Melody L. Wallace