Ohio Student Wins 2014 Star in Agriscience Award
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014/87th National FFA Convention & Expo) – Sarah Cox was named the 2014 American Star in Agriscience today during the eighth general session of the National FFA Convention & Expo.
Cox claims her love of science and technology comes from her nuclear engineer and pharmacist parents.
The Ohioan has experimented in animal and food sciences through studies involving strawberry crown rot, African nightshade phytochemicals, hoof rot bacteria and soybeans. She has interned with The Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center – The World Vegetable Center and the Thad Cochran Horticultural Center and worked with university professors at The Ohio State University and Purdue University.
Currently a student at Purdue University studying biological food processing and pharmaceutical engineering, she hopes to attend medical school and be a food process engineer.
“Through persistence and several gracious professors and researchers, I have had the opportunity to complete very prestigious research,” she said. “As each project progressed, I grew more confident in basic laboratory skills.”
Cox, 20, is a member of the Zane Trace FFA Chapter in Chillicothe, Ohio. Her advisors are Jennifer Johnston and Gary Peters. She is the daughter of Paul and Rachel Cox.
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