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Category Archives: Student Spotlight


Read about some winning Student Faculty Research Award proposals that include topics such as geography, ecology, biology, animal science, and agriculture.


Bikash Bogati, a PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology, was recently featured in Science in the Working Life section. Bogati submitted a personal essay in which he reflects on his volunteer experience and how it has helped him through his program.


Funded by a private grant, the Food Supply Chain Coalition is a nationwide effort to fight hunger by optimizing supply chains.
Second-year students in UT’s Tri-Continent Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program participated in the project, each tackling a specific piece in a many-sided puzzle with the overarching goal of solving real-world problems in the food supply chain.


Anna Kochigina, a PhD candidate in advertising and public relations is the subject of a student spotlight in the College of Communication and Information.


Graduate student Alyssa Hayes found an interest in state and federal politics in her first year of high school, long before she discovered her interest in nuclear engineering, spending a year as an intern for Illinois State Senator Melinda Bush when she was only 15. Then, while studying at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate student, she used the power of grassroots organizing to help garner support for legislation that ended up saving two nuclear plants from premature decommissioning.


Nuveen M. Barwari, graduate student in the School of Art, is using her work to create an entirely new space—one that allows her to connect her homeland and her host land.


Doctoral student Robby Kile, studying under NE Associate Professor Nick Brown, conducted research to verify the performance of the TCR designs under both normal operating conditions and accident scenarios. His findings were recently published in Nuclear Engineering and Design.


Searching for chemicals that indicate the presence of life is at the heart of the research being done by Grace Sarabia, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Chemistry.