Group News Archive

Congrats to Henri for being awarded the ME department’s award for Outstanding Graduate Research

Congratulations to Sreedath Panat and Vishnu Jayaprakash for acing the MechE qualifying examinations.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Leonid Rapoport, a PhD candidate in the group, was awarded the Elie Shaio Memorial Fund Fellowship Award (07/15/2015).

Sami Khan, PhD Student in Varanasi Group was awarded the 2015 International Hydropower Association’s “Young Researcher Award” at the World Hydropower Congress that was held in Beijing. (07/2/2015)

Congratulations to graduate students Karim Khalil and Leonid Rapoport on passing the Qualifying Examinations. They are now PhD candidates in the department of Mechanical Engineering. (5/29/2015)

Graduate student Sami Khan as been named one of twelve Hydro Research Foundation Research Award Program recipients. His work will focus on novel hydrophobic rare earth oxide-based coatings for enhancing the longevity of hydropower water conveyance structures. (5/30/2014)

Graduate student Adam Paxson has been awarded a 2014 MRS Silver Award for academic achievements and materials science research displaying a high level of excellence and distinction. Adam contributed to five talks during the 2013 MRS Fall meeting.

Sushant Anand, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kripa Varanasi’s Lab, has won the prestigious Branco Weiss Fellowship awarded by the Swiss Federal Institute of ETH Zurich. He is one of the nine new fellows to win this fellowship for 2013. (7/24/2013)

Adam Paxson awarded Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability (2013-2014). Congratulations to Adam Paxson, recipient of the Martin Family Fellowship for Sustainability. (6/20/2013)