Graduate Awards and Fellowships for 3 BiSSL PhD Students

Two BiSSL Ph.D. students – Hadear Hassan and Emily Payne – have been awarded 2023 J. Mike Walker ’66 Impact Awards. The award is given to two male and two female graduate students who have demonstrated academic/scholarly achievements, as well as have leadership and/or entrepreneurial focus/experience and innovative excellence. The winners each receive a $5,000 fellowship. BiSSL Ph.D. student Luis Rodriguez was awarded a Sally and Ray Bowen ’58 Fellowship for 2022/23. Congratulations Hadear, Emily, and Luis! They’ll all be recognized at the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Scholarship & Fellowship Banquet in October in the Memorial Student Center.

Luis Rodriguez (back left) and Hadear Hassan (front 2nd from left) had their awards presented at the 2023 Mechanical Engineering Scholarship & Fellowship Banquet. They are both co-advised by Dr. Cynthia Hipwell (front-center).
(L-R) Emily Payne (BiSSL), Maulik Kotecha (Product Synthesis Engineering Lab), Shantanu Vyas (Mixed-Initiative Design Lab), Wanyu Xu (Product Synthesis Engineering Lab), Qiyu Li, Luis Rodriguez (BiSSL)

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