TSU College of AG’s winning By JOAN KITE Tennessee State University boasted the largest number of winners for Region III in the 2021 MANRRS Regional Cluster Contests sending one doctoral candidate and two graduate candidates to compete in the Three Minute Thesis Contest for their divisions respectively at nationals in April of 2022. Bhawana Ghimire, 29, won first place in the doctoral division for the Three Minute
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“It is the largest number of winners we have had.” Dr. De’Etra Young Associate Dean of Academics and Land-grant Programs
Thesis Contest by simplifying her thesis titled, “Real time and visual detection of Phytopythium vexans using loop-mediated isothermal amplification,” so the laymen could understand it. “The competition involved taking the technical and distilling it into the layman’s terms,” Ghimire said, a task she admitted was more complicated than she initially expected it to be. Graduate candidates Kabirat Nasiru, 27 27,,
