Grad Student Mohammed Shoaib was awarded the Honorific Fellowship by Princeton Graduate School. Students are nominated by their department to be considered for a Honorific Fellowship. Shoaib is co-advised by Profs. Naveen Verma and Niraj Jha. Honorific Fellowships are one of the fellowships offered by the Graduate School to provide funding to students displaying the highest scholarly excellence in graduate work during the year.
Archive – May 2012
Grad Student Bhadri Lalgudi Visweswaran has been selected to receive the Friends of Davis International Center Teaching Award for his work as an assistant in this year's carlab. Visweswaran's advisors are Profs. Sigurd Wagner and James Sturm. Princeton's Friends of Davis International Center and Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni (APGA) fund awards each year to recognize those graduate students who have made a significant contribution to undergraduate teaching.
Profs. Gerard Wysocki, Hakan Tureci and Andrew Houck are among the recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund award. Prof. Wysocki, together with Prof. Daniel Sigman, the Dusenbury Professor of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, have received this award for creating a nitrogen sensor that can monitor environmental change. Profs. Tureci and Houck have received this award for developing a quantum computer which could potentially answer questions currently impossibl
EE Graduate Student Eric Mills is one of the recipients of the 2012 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG). The NDSEG Fellowship provides funding for 3 years. Eric is advised by Prof. Stephen Chou. The Department of Defense (DoD) offers these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated the ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.
EE graduate student Joseph D'Silva has won the Best Poster Award at the 2012 Physical Sciences Oncology Center network meeting of the National Cancer Institute. His poster was entitled "“Deterministic Separation of Cancer Cells from Blood at 10 mL/min,” is also co-authored by Kevin Loutherback *11, Liyu Liu, Princeton Physics Postdoctoral Research Associate, Robert Getzenberg, co-advisor Princeton Physics Professor Robert H. Austin, and co-advisor James C. Sturm. The National Cancer Instit
Joyelle Jones (now Harris)*10 is the recipient of the Journal of Electronic Materials (JEM) Best Paper Award from The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). The award was received for the publication on "Elastically Stretchable Insulation and Bilevel Metallization and its Application in a Stretchable RLC Circuit", which she co-authored with Prof. Oliver Graudejus of Arizona State University and Prof. Sigurd Wagner. The paper is a result of Dr. Harris’s Ph.D. thesis research. TMS pro
