Poornima Padmanabhan, an Indian American professor of chemical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award, reported RIT in a press
Scientists look to space for origins of the solar system; chemical engineers like Poornima Padmanabhan are searching for the origins of life based on minute systems of molecules. Padmanabhan recently received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for “Chirality and polymer thermodynamics: frustration and amplification.”
Elizabeth Lamark Hira Abid will venture to Turkey for graduate school as a Fulbright Scholar. The chemical engineering major is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious award.
Hira Abid crossed continents to come to RIT.
The chemical engineering student from Pakistan will make another global connection when she begins graduate school in Turkey as one of RIT’s newest Fulbright awardees.
Abid will begin orientation this summer at Koç University in Istanbul, taking classes in the Biomedical Sciences and Engineering program in the Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering. It is an adventure, a challenge and the next step toward a career in biotechnology to problem-solve some of the global health challenges today.