Eight PhD students affiliated with the ATLAS Institute recently听received Graduate School awards to support their听outstanding research and creative work.听
Katie Gach received a summer fellowship, providing a summer stipend听to support her dissertation research on how people manage post-mortem social media data.
Keke Wu received the Ray Hauser award to support her data accessibility research. For her pioneering work, Wu recently won a听Best Paper award from the 2021 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the premier international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Wu is also a member of the VisuaLab.
Fiona Bell received a听Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.听Bell, who听took home a top award听from the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Student Design Challenge for her听听project, is a member of the听Living Matter Lab. She also completed a听prestigious internship 飞颈迟丑听, assisting with the development of self-cleaning textiles.
Kailey Shara, a听researcher in the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab,听received a听Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant for her research on laboratory automation systems. Shara recently听took home top awards听from both NVC14 and the New Venture听Launch class for her laboratory automation startup, Chembotix.
顿谤别测肠别测听础濒产颈苍, an affiliated ATLAS student and a researcher in the Living Matter Lab, received a听Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
Gabriella Johnson and Varsha Koushik, affiliated ATLAS students and听researchers in the Superhuman Computing Labs, were donor award recipients; Koushik also received the听Hope Schultz Jozsa Award and a听Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
Sasha Novack, a researcher in the Living Matter Lab,听received a听Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
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