Eight PhD students affiliated with the ATLAS Institute recentlyreceived Graduate School awards to support theiroutstanding research and creative work.
Katie Gach received a summer fellowship, providing a summer stipendto 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 aBest 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 aBeverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.Bell, whotook home a top awardfrom the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Student Design Challenge for herproject, is a member of theLiving Matter Lab. She also completed aprestigious internship ɾٳ, assisting with the development of self-cleaning textiles.
Kailey Shara, aresearcher in the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab,received aBeverly Sears Graduate Student Grant for her research on laboratory automation systems. Shara recentlytook home top awardsfrom both NVC14 and the New VentureLaunch class for her laboratory automation startup, Chembotix.
ٰ⳦, an affiliated ATLAS student and a researcher in the Living Matter Lab, received aBeverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
Gabriella Johnson and Varsha Koushik, affiliated ATLAS students andresearchers in the Superhuman Computing Labs, were donor award recipients; Koushik also received theHope Schultz Jozsa Award and aBeverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.
Sasha Novack, a researcher in the Living Matter Lab,received aBeverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.