Category: Group News
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Henri wins the Outstanding Graduate research Award
Congrats to Henri for being awarded the ME department’s award for Outstanding Graduate Research
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Sam wins Meredith Kamm Memorial Award
Congratulations to Samantha McBride for winning the Meredith Kamm Memorial Award in Mechanical Engineering. This is a very prestigious award in the department and awarded for Excellence in graduate studies.
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Sreedath and Vishnu pass the qualifying exam!
Congratulations to Sreedath Panat and Vishnu Jayaprakash for acing the MechE qualifying examinations.
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Srinivas Subramanyam has received his Doctoral degree and will start working at Eastman Chemicals
Congratulations to Srinivas Subramanyam who has received his Doctoral degree and will start working at Eastman Chemicals as an advanced research scientist. (06/03/2016)
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Taylor Farnham has received his Master’s and will start working at LiquiGlide
Congratulations to Taylor Farnham who has received his Master’s degree and will start working as a Mechanical Design Engineer at LiquiGlide – one of the startups that originated in the Varanasi Research Group. (06/03/2016)
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Sami Khan was awarded the Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Sami Khan, PhD Student in Varanasi Group was awarded the Doctoral Postgraduate Scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. There were 1586 applicants and 400 recipients were selected. (06/01/2016)
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Henri-Louis Girard and Samantha McBride have Passed the Qualifying Examinations
Congratulations to graduate students Henri-Louis Girard and Samantha McBride on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (05/27/2016)
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Maher Damak and Sami Kahn have Passed the Qualifying Examinations
Congratulations to graduate students Maher Damak and Sami Khan on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (01/29/2016)
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Dr. Sushant Anand will begin his Assistant Professorship at UIC
Dr. Sushant Anand, Postdoc in the Varanasi Group will begin his Assistant Professorship this Fall 2015 Academic Year at the University of Illinois-Chicago in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. (08/19/2015)
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Dr. Jolet de Ruiter has been awarded the Rubicon Grant Fellowship
Dr. Jolet de Ruiter has been awarded the Rubicon Grant Fellowship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NOW) Physics Division for “Study of drop Impact and Freezing dynamics under icing conditions, as a basis for new anti-icing Materials” The fellowship is set to begin in mid August 2015. (08/19/2015)