Amanda Peters Haugrud Successfully Defends Ph.D. Thesis

Amanda Peters Haugrud successfully defended her genomics and bioinformatics Ph.D. thesis and presented her exit seminar on October 28, 2021. The title of her thesis is Mapping and Characterization of Yield Component Traits and Septoria Nodorum Blotch Susceptibility in Wheat. Her advisers are Dr. Justin Faris and Dr. Phillip McClean. 

Peters Haugrud says she chose North Dakota State University for her graduate degree because she is interested in the research her adviser is conducting, and that faculty really care about the students, the classes they teach and explaining how to apply what they learn. 

While at NDSU, she participated in Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi and the NDSU Plant Sciences Graduate Student Association, serving as Vice President in 2017 and Treasurer in 2019. She also received the NDSU Graduate Research Scholarship in 2021.

Before attending NDSU, Peters Haugrud completed a B.A. in Biology at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She will continue working with Dr. Faris’s project at the United States Department of Agriculture Cereal Crops Research Center in Fargo, ND as a postdoctoral fellow. She is from Lonsdale, MN. 

Her graduate committee included Faris, McClean, Timothy Friesen, Andrew Green, Zhaohui Liu and Marion Harris.