Mukherjee Awarded Sigma Xi Grant

Chemical Engineering graduate student, Samrat Mukherjee, has been selected by the Sigma Xi Committee on Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) to receive a cash grant in support of his research project, "Fabricating and Characterizing a Microsized Membrane Reactor - A Thrust Towards Realizing Miniaturized Fuel Processors." Mukherjee, who is on the PhD track, studies and researches in the field of Processing Modeling and Control under the supervision of Professor Mayuresh Kothare. Mukherjee and Kothare have published several papers and have made several presentation together.

The GIAR program accepts proposals from undergraduate and graduate students worldwide. Awards range from $100 and $1000 and are aimed at fostering original research among students. When contacted about his award, Mukherjee commented, “GIAR has been giving [these] awards for over 80 years and this is a big honor.” Mukherjee is one of about only ten engineers in the nation to have received such an award this year, as the award is traditionally reserved for science-based students. Competing applications come from such diverse disciplines as chemistry, physics, anthropology, ecology, cell biology, behavioral sciences, psychology, and geophysics. Click here to learn the details of the award and to view a list of this year's award winners.

Founded in 1886, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society is a non-profit membership society of more than 70,000 scientists and engineers who were elected to the Society because of their research achievements or potential. Sigma Xi has more than 500 chapters at universities and colleges (including a Lehigh chapter), government laboratories and industry research centers. In addition to publishing American Scientist, Sigma Xi awards grants annually to promising young researchers, holds forums on critical issues at the intersection of science and society and sponsors a variety of programs supporting honor in science and engineering, science education, science policy and the public understanding of science.