UNDERGRAD/GRAD
 The UM Solar Decathlon team, including students from the
Clark School, the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and other UM colleges, has
received $50,000 from Constellation Energy in the form of an "Energy to Educate" grant,
one of 10 such awards to schools around the country.
 Ten Clark School aerospace engineering (AE) students have won the prestigious
2011 Vertical Flight Foundation Scholarship, making up more than half of all recipients. They are:
B.S.
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• Elena Shrestha
• Sean Peterson Symon
M.S.
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• Erica Grace Hocking
• Graham Bowen-Davies
• Elizabeth Alice Weiner
Ph.D.
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• Ryan Michael Robinson
• Benjamin Otto Berry
• Andrew Becnel
• Chen Friedman
• Anish Sydney
GRADUATE
 The following current or incoming Clark School students have earned
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships:
• Gunja Dave (Fischell Department of
Bioengineering [BioE])
• Laura Freyman (Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering)
• Xiao-Yu Fu (Department of Mechanical
Engineering [ME])
• Rasa Ghafarrian (BioE)
• Morgane Grivel (AE, pictured)
• Jessica Jones (AE)
• Rachel Manthe (BioE)
• Tony Melchiorri (BioE)
• Ethan Schaler (ME)
• Michael Wiederoder (BioE)
• Melanie Wong (Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering [CEE])
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited US institutions.
 ME Ph.D. student Arvind Balijepalli has received a National Research Council postdoctoral fellowship. This two-year fellowship is awarded by the National Academies of the Sciences in the United States. The award will allow Balijepalli to work jointly in the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Laboratory of Computational Biology within the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.
 Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) graduate student and alumna Ashley Lidie (B.S. '10) has been awarded a Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship by the Department of Defense (DOD). The highly selective SMART program was established to support the education of the nation's future scientists and engineers, and to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers employed by the DOD.
Jeongho Jeon, a graduate student in ECE, and ME Ph.D. student Alex Weissman have received NIST American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowships.
MSE graduate student Jane Cornett, advised by Assistant Professor Oded Rabin, has received an Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation graduate scholarship. The ARCS Foundation provides science, medicine and engineering scholarships to outstanding students who are U.S. citizens contributing to the advancement of science and technology. Cornett also was honored for her presentation, "Simplified Thermoelectric Figure of Merit Calculations for Semiconducting Nanowires," which was selected as one of the five Best Oral Student Presentations in the symposium on Thermoelectric Materials for Solid-State Power Generation and Refrigeration.
ME Ph.D. student Kevin Lister has won a 2011 Link Foundation Fellowship in Advanced Simulation and Training. He is the first University of Maryland student to win this award.
The following Clark School students have earned 2011-2012 Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships:
• Bavani Balakrisnan (ME)
• Ishita Chakraborty (ME)
• Zhuangxiang He (CEE)
• Geunmin Ryu (ECE)
• Matthew Stamm (ECE)
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowships are one-semester awards intended to support outstanding doctoral students who are in the final stages of writing their dissertations and whose primary source of support is unrelated to their dissertation. The Graduate School awards approximately 40 Wylie Dissertation Fellowships per year.
Gilad Sharon, ME Ph.D. candidate working with Professor Don Barker, recently received the Newport Spectra-Physics Research Excellence Award from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). This award recognizes the outstanding research achievements of 19 university students worldwide and provides them with funding to attend the two largest SPIE conferences.
Environmental Engineering graduate student Qiang Huang has been awarded the American Chemical Society (ACS) Agro Educational Award, sponsored by Bayer CropScience, to present his work “Raman Microscopic Analysis of PM10 for Assessing Source Distributions from Agricultural Operations” at the 2011 Fall ACS National meeting.
Graduate Program in Molecular and Cell Biology student Varnika Roy, advised by BioE Professor and Chair William Bentley, was presented with the ACS W.H. Peterson Award at the organization's national meeting for her work, "Analogs of the Bacterial Signaling Molecule AI-2 as Quorum Quenchers."
ME Ph.D. candidate Kaushik Chatterjee won first prize in the graduate category of American Nuclear Society 2010 student paper competition for "A Probabilistic Physics-of-Failure Approach to Prediction of Steam Generator Tube Rupture Frequency." For the same paper, Chatterjee also won first prize in the graduate category of the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies 2011 college student paper competition.
Paul Larsen, a graduate student conducting his thesis research under the joint supervision of Professor Thomas Antonsen (ECE/physics/Institute for Research in Engineering and Applied Physics) and David Abe (Naval Research Laboratory), won an award for best student paper at the 12th annual IEEE International Vacuum Electronics Conference. The title of the paper is "Coupling a Waveguide Input into a Sheet-Beam Coupled-Cavity Slow-Wave Structure." Along with Larsen, the paper's co-authors include Abe, Baruch Levush and Antonsen.
ME graduate students Sungwon Han and Curtis Johnson, who work in the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering, won the 2011 Best Paper Award for "Effectiveness of Conformal Coatings on Surface Mount Components as Tin Whisker Mitigation" from the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society and the Military ATW Committee. Their advisors, ME Professors Michael Pecht and Michael Osterman, were co-authors on the paper.
ECE graduate student Domenic Forte won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award at the NASA/European Space Agency Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems. Domenic and his advisor, ECE Associate Professor Ankur Srivastava, collaborated and presented the paper, titled “Adaptable Video Compression and Transmission Using Lossy and Workload Balancing Techniques.”
ECE graduate student Yongqiang Wang has won the Best Student Paper Award for "Best OR/MS-focused Paper" at the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, the premier international forum for the field of system simulation. The paper was titled "Model-based Evolutionary Optimization."
ECE Ph.D. student Yan Chen received the 2010 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad. The purpose of the award program is to encourage students to study abroad and engage in new educational experiences across the globe.
AE graduate student Robbie Vocke took first place in the Other Topics category for his paper “Morphing Aircraft: A Revolution in Aerodynamic Adaptation” at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Region 1-MA (Mid-Atlantic) Student Conference this spring.
AE graduate student Andrew Becnel earned first place in the Oral Presentation category for “Magnetorheological Fluid Composites for Crashworthiness Applications in Helicopters” at the 2011 Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Baltimore-Washington Regional Student Symposium.
BioE graduate student Wei W. Yu, advised by Assistant Professor Ian White, won the "Technology in the 21st Century" division at the University of Maryland's 2011 Graduate Research and Interaction Day (GRID). Yu took first place for his presentation of a technique that employs an ordinary inkjet printer to make an inexpensive biosensor component for use in surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.
BioE graduate student Janet Hsu, advised by Assistant Professor Silvia Muro, won the Pushing the Boundaries of Science Division at GRID for her presentation of an enhanced drug delivery method specifically designed to address the challenges of crossing the body's blood brain barrier.
Joyce Breger, advised by chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE)'s Associate Professor Nam Sun Wang, won first prize in the GRID Health division for her presentation, "Encapsulation of Islets In 'Click' Crosslinked Alginate Capsules and Response to Glucose Challenge."
Pushkar Pendse, advised by ChBE assistant professor Jeffery Klauda, won first prize in the GRID Modeling and Simulation Division for his presentation, "Mechanistic and Thermodynamic Insights into the Transport Cycle of Lactose Permease."
ME Ph.D. candidate Aleksandr Gorbashev, a student of ME Keystone Professor Chandra Thamire, won first place in GRID's Technology in the 21st Century poster session for his poster, "Design of an Automated System for Shaping Paint-Brush Knots."
Zhao Zhang, a graduate student of ME professor and Maryland NanoCenter member Teng Li, was awarded first place in GRID's Modeling and Simulation presentation category for his presentation, "Carbon Nanotube Initiated Formation of Carbon Nanoscrolls."
ChBE graduate student Deepa Subramanian, advised by Professor Mikhail Anisimov, has received two University of Maryland Graduate School travel scholarships: the International Conference Student Support Award and the Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant.
ECE Ph.D. student Bing Shi has been awarded a University of Maryland Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship for the summer of 2011. Shi is advised by Prof. Ankur Srivastava. Her research focuses on thermal and power management for computer systems.
Konstantinos Gerasopoulos (MSE/ISR) received the 2011 Dean's Doctoral Research Award for “Integration and Characterization of Tobacco mosaic virus-based Nanostructured Materials in Three-Dimensional Microbattery Architectures.”
Pranay Seshadri (AE) received the 2011 Dean's Master's Student Research Award for “Aerodynamics and Control Towards A Biomimetic Hovering Flapping Wing Vehicle.”
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UNDERGRADUATE
 ME senior Dylan Rebois has won a prestigious George C. Marshall Scholarship, which commemorates the ideals of the Marshall Plan and provides two years of full support for Americans to study for a graduate degree in the United Kingdom. Previously, he won the Udall and Truman Scholarships. The University of Maryland also named Rebois the 2011 University Medalist during the spring commencement ceremony.
 ChBE junior Apoorv Gupta has been awarded a 2011-2012 Goldwater Scholarship, the premier national award granted to undergraduate students majoring in mathematics, natural sciences and engineering who are interested in research careers.
 Ethan Schaler, ME senior, won one of only fourteen 2011-12 Churchill Scholarships to the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.
BioE senior Zachary Russ (double major, mathematics) received a 2011 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense. The highly selective and prestigious award includes full tuition and required fees for three years at any accredited U.S. college or university that grants advanced degrees in science and engineering, as well as an annual stipend.
ChBE junior Matt Conway has been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship for his proposed study of metabolic flux analysis in yeast cells. Conway is advised by Assistant Professor Ganesh Sriram, and conducts his work in Sriram's Metabolic Engineering Laboratory.
Hannah Henningsgaard (ME) received a prestigious scholarship to South Korea's Yonsei University from the Council on International Educational Exchange to attend the South Korea Scholarship Program.
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society has awarded MSE junior Ben Jones its Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division Scholarship.
Team Thirsty Turtles, a group primarily composed of ChBE undergraduates and advised by ChBE assistant professor Chunsheng Wang, took first place at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Chem-E Car Competition, earning them a spot in the finals at the organization's national meeting this fall.
The University of Maryland won the 6th annual CyberWatch Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Cyber Defense (CCDC) Competition, earning top honors and the opportunity to compete against the seven other university finalist teams in the National CCDC competition. The University of Maryland team is comprised of eight undergraduate students: Drew Bailey, Justin Chen, Travis Finkenauer, Rose Kirby, Stephen McCarthy, Aaron Sanders, Nick Sinlock, and David Wasser.
Members of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory won first place in the local Global Game Jam, which was hosted at the Universities at Shady Grove, for conceptualizing and creating a video game in just 48 hours. Civil and environmental engineering student Todd Lees, along with full-time researchers Jenny Lees, Michael Couture, and Walter Lucman, and team member Alex Tran participated.
The Gamma Xi Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society at the Clark School, received the Outstanding Chapter Award for 2009-2010. This great distinction is based on the quality of chapter activities as outlined in the Annual Chapter Report.
Kathi Hendrick (ME), project leader for UM's Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Ethiopia Team, won one of twelve CH2M Hill EWB-USA Scholarships in recognition of her academic excellence and contributions to the UM chapter of EWB. CH2M Hill is an international consulting and project management firm.
AE student Shane Boyer earned first place in the Poster Presentation category for "Chord Morphing Wing Utilizing Composite Sandwich Structures and Pneumatic Artificial Muscles" at the 2011 Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Baltimore-Washington Regional Student Symposium.
Jonathan Geerts, a senior in AE, was awarded first place for his presentation “Establishing a Nusselt Number Correlation for Small IC Engine Cylinder Head Heat Transfer” at the 2011 AIAA Greater Philadelphia Regional Aerospace Engineering and Technology Symposium.
BioE sophomore Joshua Thompson, advised by Associate Professor John Fisher, won the 2011 Outstanding ASPIRE Student Research Award for his work on skeletal muscle regeneration.
Clark School Corporate Partner Company L-3 Communications named the recipients of its 2010-2011 undergraduate scholarships, worth $4,150 each:
• Li Peng Liang (AE)
• Elena Shrestha (AE)
• Rebecca Baier (ECE)
• John Garvey (ECE)
• Pedro Peña (ECE)
• Eric Epstein (MSE)
• Gregory Barr (ME)
• Jessica Lieberman (ME)
The recipients of L-3 Corporate Partner Scholarships (worth $1,000) are:
• Harrison Chau (AE/economics)
• Prateek Kukreja (ECE)
• Andrew Sabelhaus (ME)
• Danica Gordon (ME)
• Saara Khan (ECE)
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