Two ACES doctoral students receive prestigious FFAR fellowships

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Marianne Stein
ABE FSHN Students Awards
Composite headshots of Sandesh Poudel and Abichal Poudel

Sandesh Poudel and Abichal Poudel (no relation), doctoral students in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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