Graduate School Announces Spring 2024 Awards for Outstanding Scholarship and Teaching


Congratulations to the students who have received the spring 2024 Graduate School’s Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship and the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. College of Computing students who received the award are:

Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship: Ujwal Goulikar, Mechatronics

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award: Zongguang Liu and Abel Reyes Angulo, both Computational Science and Engineering

All Awardees

Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship
The following recipients of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship have demonstrated academic or professional qualities that set them apart within their academic program.

  • Rishi Babu — Physics
  • Utkarsh Shailesh Chaudhari — Chemical Engineering
  • Komal Chillar — Chemistry
  • Felix Cottet-Puinel — Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
  • Austin DePottey — Materials Science and Engineering
  • Siyuan Fang — Environmental Engineering
  • Gaurish Gokhale — Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Ujwal Goulikar — Mechatronics
  • Samuel Hervey — College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
  • Brilynn Janckila — Rhetoric, Theory and Culture
  • Samuel Kinne — Business Administration
  • Revanth Mattey — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Abhishek Patil — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Mostafa Rezaeitaleshmahalleh — Biomedical Engineering
  • Peifeng Su — Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Morgana Wilke — Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
The following recipients of the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award are recognized for their excellence in teaching.

  • Harikrishnan Changarnkothapeecherikkal — Computational Science and Engineering
  • Reid DeVoge — Humanities
  • Tiff Degroot — College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science
  • Gita Deonarain — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Larry Dilworth — Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Thomas Draper — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Joshua Gindt — Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Olivia Hohman — Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Abhishek Keripale — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Anandhu Krishnan — Chemistry
  • Miaomiao Li — Civil Engineering
  • Zongguang Liu — Computational Science and Engineering
  • Theresa Meyer — Applied Ecology
  • Anwar Mohammed — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Ukasha Mohammed — Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
  • Ryan Munter — Physics
  • Abel Reyes Angulo — Computational Science and Engineering
  • Zazil Santizo Huerta — Mathematical Sciences
  • Goutham Viyyapu — Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics
  • Brennan Vogl — Biomedical Engineering
  • Kyle Wehmanen — Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
  • Aimee Zimmerman — Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences

For details about each award, view our Awards and Honors page.