Yige Wang, GGNB PhD student (2023–present)

• Financial Support Fellowship, Graduate Group in Nutritional Biology (GGNB), UC Davis (2024)
• Rustici Endowment Fellowship and GGNB Fellowship (2024)
• Jastro Research Award, GGNB, UC Davis (2024)
• Rucker Family Fellowship Award, GGNB, UC Davis (2025)
• Jastro Research Award, GGNB, UC Davis (2025)
• Rucker Family Fellowship Award, GGNB, UC Davis (2025)

Weicang Wang, PhD student (2014–2019)

• Health and Nutrition Division Student Award, American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) (2019)
• Honored Student Award, AOCS (2019)
• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad, Consulate General of China in New York & China Scholarship Council (2019)
• Phi Tau Sigma Founder’s Award, Honor Society of Phi Tau Sigma (Food Science and Technology) (2018)
• Love of Learning Award, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2018)
• Outstanding Poster Award, 17th International Winter Eicosanoid Meeting (2018)
• Publons Peer Review Award (Top 1% of reviewers in Agricultural Sciences) (2018)
• Travel Award, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2018)
• Poster Winner, 8th Annual Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, UMass Amherst (2018)
• Travel Award for Young Investigators Symposium, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) (2017)
• Micha Peleg International Travel Award, UMass Amherst (2017)
• Feeding Tomorrow Graduate Scholarship, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) (2017)
• Graduate Student Scholarship, Northeast Section of the Institute of Food Technologists (NEIFT) (2017)
• Poster Winner, 7th Annual Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium, UMass Amherst (2017)
• Travel Grant for ACS/AGFD Student Chapter Symposium, ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia (2016)
• Alumni Graduate Scholarship, UMass Amherst (2014–2017)

Katherine Z. Sanidad, PhD student (2014–2019)

• Byron Prize Award for Best PhD Dissertation, Molecular and Cell Biology Program, UMass Amherst (2020)
• Graduate Travel Award, Northeast Society of Toxicology (NESOT) (2018)
• Travel Award, 24th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (NACSETAC) (2018)
• Best Poster Award, 24th Annual Meeting of NACSETAC (2018)
• Best Student Oral Presentation Award, Northeast Chapter of the Society of Toxicology (NESOT) Annual Meeting (2017)

Jianan Zhang, PhD student (2016–2021) and postdoctoral fellow (2021)

• Best Poster Award, Pioneer Valley Microbiology Symposium, UMass Amherst (2021)
• Founder’s Scholarship, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi (2021)
• First Place, Herbert O. Hultin Oral Competition Scholarship, UMass Amherst (2019)
• Excellent Poster Award, UMass Life Sciences Graduate Research Symposium (2019)

Elvira Sukamtoh, BS student (2014–2016) and MS student (2016–2018)

• Travel Award, American Chemical Society (ACS) (2016)
• First Place, Undergraduate Student Research Award Symposium, ACS (2016)
• Alumni Fellowship, UMass Amherst (2016)
• Travel Award, Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) (2015)
• Second Place, Undergraduate Research Competition, IFT (2015)
• Rising Researcher Award, UMass Amherst (2015)

Haixia Yang, Postdoctoral fellow (2016–2018)

• Best Postdoctoral Publication Award, Society of Toxicology (2018)
• Postdoctoral Poster Award, Northeast Society of Toxicology (NESOT) Annual Meeting (2017)