Dr. Giovanna Aita and Dr. Young Hwan Moon received the John Clayton Award for the "Effect of Cultivation Conditions on Extracellular Polymeric Substances Production by Microbial Isolates from Louisiana’s Crusher Juice" poster as the Best Poster for the Factory Commission of the ISSCT Congress presented in Hyderabad, India in February 2023. They also received the August John Vlitos Award for "Unlocking the Real Potential of Black Soldier Fly Larvae Protein and Lipid Derivatives from Cane-Byproducts as Animal Feed" as the Best Poster for the Co-Products Commission of ISSCT.
The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture