Name: Hayley Bunselmeyer
Option: Crops
Year: Senior
email: Bunselm1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• College of ACES Student Advancement Committee
• Field and Furrow Club
• 4-H House Cooperative Sorority

Desired job: Agronomist

Unique Experience: Maize Stress Product Development Research Internship with Pioneer Hi-Bred International in Woodland, CA . I collected data concerning various characteristics on drought tolerant corn hybrids.

Name: Jane Christensen
Option: Horticulture (Production and Management)
Year: Senior
email: Jane6324@gmail.com

Activities:

• Horticulture Club
• Illini Conservative Union
• ACES international Ambassador

Desired job: Horticultural Product Development

Unique Experience:

• Semester internship at Longwood Gardens
• Summer internship at Olbrich Botanic Gardens
• Study abroad at Wageningen University in the Netherlands
  

Name: Ronald Dymerski
Option: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Year: Sophomore
email: Dymersk2@illinois.edu

Name: Zach Ferguson
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Junior
email:Ferguso6@illinois.edu

Name: Wayne Gehrke
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: gehrke1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Field and Furrow
• ACES Student Council
• Alpha Zeta
• University Lutheran Church

Future Plans: After graduation I plan on returning to the family farm in northern Illinois.

Name: Jack Marshall
Option: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Year: Senior
email: Marshall6@illinois.edu

Name: Whitney Massey
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: Massey1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Field and Furrow Club, President
• Crop Sciences ExplorACES Planning Committee
• Collegiate FFA
• Alpha Zeta Honorary Fraternity
• National Soybean Research Lab Student Worker
• Students in Agronomy, Soil and Environmental Sciences, National Recording Secretary

Desired job: I would like to pursue a career in the chemical and fertilizer industry working in agronomy consulting and sales.

Name: Brett McClelland
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Junior
email: Mcclell3@illinois.edu

Activities:

• ExplorACES Steering Committee
• IFC Leadership Council President
• Crop Science Student Ambassador

Desired job: Agronomist for a seed company

Unique Experience:
Agronomy Trial Intern for Pioneer Hybrid

Name: Katherine McLachlan
Option: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Year: Junior
email: Mclachl1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Sigma Alpha Professional Agricultural Sorority
• Field and Furrow Agronomy Club

Desired job: Traditional Plant Breeder

Unique Experience: I currently work for a breeder working on soybean rust resistance.

Name: Kord Nolte
Option: Crops
Year: Senior
email: Knolte2@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Student Advancement Committee
• Field and Furrow Club
• CFFA

Desired job: Agronomist

Unique Experience: I work as an undergraduate agricultural assistant for graduate students in the Illinois Plant Breeding Center studying the genetic improvement of corn.

Name: Ross Recker
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: Recker1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• IlliDell of Alpha Gamma Sigma
• Field and Furrow Club
• Alpha Zeta Honorary Agricultural Fraternity

Desired job: Agronomist/Crop Consultant

Unique Experience: I had the amazing experience of traveling to Brazil over winter break to learn about how both their system of agriculture and way of life differ from ours here in the Midwest.

Name: Miranda Spears
Option: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Year: Sophomore
email: Spears7@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Alpha Zeta
• Cru (campus ministry)

Desired job: Plant Breeder

Unique Experience:

• Internship with the Small Grains Plant Breeding Program-University of Illinois
• Studied abroad in the Dominican Republic for two weeks in the winter
  

Name: Nicholas Urish
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: Urish1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• FarmHouse Fraternity
• Field and Furrow

Desired job: Work in sales in the crop protection industry.

Name: Nathan Waldeck
Option: Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Biology
Year: Sophomore
email: Waldeck1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• FarmHouse Fraternity
• Field and Furrow
• Alpha Zeta

Desired job: Plant Breeder

Unique Experience: I interned last summer with Monsanto testing biotech cotton in Arizona.

Name: Victoria Wax
Option: Horticulture (Production and Management)
Year: Junior
email: Wax1@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Floral Design Club
• Horticulture Club
• Colleges Against Cancer

Desired job: Within the Floral or Horticulture Industries

Unique Experience: My entire life I have worked in my family owned flower shop. When I joined the horticulture area I got involved in the Floral Design Club and am now president as a junior. I have been able to share my lifelong passion with fellow students and learn new techniques through the classes and club experiences.

Name: Kaitlin Weitekamp
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: Kweitek2@illinois.edu

Activities:

• James Scholar
• Jonathan Baldwin Turner Scholar
• James Newton Matthews Scholar

Desired job: After finishing my degree in Crop Sciences and furthering my studies in agricultural economics and business management, I would like to attend graduate school and attain my Master's Degree in my area of interest.  I hope to work as an agronomist or in management for an agricultural business dealing with the seed and biotechnology industry.

Name: Josh Wollin
Option: Crop Agribusiness
Year: Senior
email: Wollin2@illinois.edu

Activities:

• Crop Science Ambassadors
• ACES Council
• Field and Furrow

Desired job: To work within the agriculture industry.

Unique Experience:Internship with a ADM as a Grain Terminal Operations Management Intern