Students win UIC Graduate College awards
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UIC Chemical Engineering Department PhD student Kartikey Sharma has received the Award for Graduate Research. This award provides funding research travel, a summer research stipend, and supplies. He plans to use the award to pursue his X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy project at Northwestern University. Sharma works in Dr. Satish C. and Asha Saxena Professor and ChE Department Head Vikas Berry’s lab.
PhD students Namrata Desai and Prem Kumar Reddy Podupu have received the Provost Visiting Scholar Award. This award facilitates scholarly mobility for students to travel somewhere to form scholarly collaborations and do research to advance one’s graduate research and career. The funding competition also helps students develop more substantial funding applications from external sources.
Desai plans to pursue research on her thesis project, “Zwitterionic polymer composite electrolytes for lithium-sulfur batteries,” at Argonne National Laboratory.
Podupu also plans to pursue research on her thesis project, “Structural Mapping of Multi-Metal Placements in Porphyrin-Based High Entropy-Metal Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Applications,” at Stanford University.
Master’s student Furkan Basim has received the 2024-2025 Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Award. Along with the award, he received $500. The award celebrates graduate students’ excellence in teaching and mentoring undergraduates. This award is given on behalf of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Excellence, UIC Honors College, and UIC Graduate College and adheres to the regional and national competition guidelines.
All of the above awards are given by the UIC Graduate College.