Type: Graduate Students

    • Margaret (Maggie) Phillips

      Maggie joined the Zimmer lab in Fall 2025. She earned her B.S. in environmental science from the University of New Hampshire in 2019 and then worked on maintaining the public…

      Margaret (Maggie) Phillips
    • Aundrea Taylor

      Aundrea Taylor
    • Hannia Ramirez Gutierrez

      Hannia is an M.S. student in the Agroecology program. She joined the Freedman Lab in the Department of Soil Sciences in 2025 after earning a B.S. in Biotechnology Engineering from…

      Hannia Ramirez Gutierrez
    • Shuchao Ye

      Shuchao Ye
    • Hannah Francis

      Hannah Francis
    • Katelin Hermanson

      Katelin Hermanson
    • Gideon K. Fynaardt

      Gideon began as a graduate student in Fall of 2024. He earned his BA in Biology—Ecological Science at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa, and is currently pursuing a master's…

      Gideon K. Fynaardt
    • Yanyu Deng

      Yanyu joined the Zhu-Barker Lab in 2023 as a PhD student. He received his B.S. in Ecology from China Agricultural University and his M.S. in Geography from Peking University. Yanyu’s…

      Yanyu Deng
    • Soni Ghimire

      Soni joined the Freedman lab in June 2023. She earned a B.S. in Agriculture from Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal and an M.S. from Virginia Tech. She is interested in…

      Soni Ghimire
    • Clare Doss

      Clare is a first year MS student in the Agroecology program. She received a BS in Environmental Science from Calvin University. Clare will be working in the Ruark lab looking…

      Clare Doss