PE_Newsletter_2019_Online, Page 10

PE_Newsletter_2019_Online, Page 10

STUDENT NEWS

Awards and Honors

Julian Zhijun Liu PhD ’20 won first place in Mines’ GRADS symposium with his oral presentation “Inves- tigation of Hindered Transport of Large Hydrocarbon Molecules in Nanoporous Materials”.

Manju Murugesu BS ‘17, MS ’19 was selected for the sec- ond cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which provides full funding for graduate studies at Stan- ford University.

Manju getting some experimental work done in the lab.

SPE Denver section held a student poster in conjunction with DAPUB 2019. There were several great posters, and Ayush Rastogi PhD ’20 clinched first place with Daniel Croce PhD ’19 in second while Eiman Al Munif PhD ’20 and Ye Tian PhD ’20 tied for third.

Julian with his GRADS award.

Information from a study authored by Daniel Croce PhD ’19 was quoted in “A Glimpse Into Oxy’s Artificial Lift Strategy” (E&P Hart Energy, 10/4/2018).

Connor Clark MS ’18 filed a patent based on his MS re- search entitled “System and Method of Locating Down- hole Objects in a Wellbore”.

Ayush being recognized for winning the DAPUB student paper contest.

Keerthikanand Mohanraj, Ilkay Eker (fall 2018), Mehmet Torcuk (spring 2019) and Ilham Permata , Jyoti Kanwar and Nicholas Wehbe (summer 2019) have joined the UNGI Alumni Club.

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