/atlas/ en /atlas/2021/05/18/eight-atlas-researchers-receive-graduate-school-awards <span>Eight ATLAS researchers receive Graduate School awards</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2021-05-18T11:04:40-06:00" title="Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 11:04">Tue, 05/18/2021 - 11:04</time> </span> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle focal_image_wide"> <img loading="lazy" src="/atlas/sites/default/files/styles/focal_image_wide/public/article-thumbnail/atlas-grad-awardees-2021-thumb.jpeg?h=fef132f0&amp;itok=s9OzSlg3" width="1200" height="800" alt="A collage of the eight PhD students who won Graduate School awards."> </div> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/144"> News </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1307" hreflang="en">albin</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/907" hreflang="en">bell</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/168" hreflang="en">feature</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/426" hreflang="en">gach</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/711" hreflang="en">johnson</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1275" hreflang="en">kekewu</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1309" hreflang="en">koushik</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/34" hreflang="en">news</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/1311" hreflang="en">novack</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/773" hreflang="en">research</a> <a href="/atlas/taxonomy/term/947" hreflang="en">shara</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Eight PhD students affiliated with the ATLAS Institute recently&nbsp;received Graduate School awards to support their&nbsp;outstanding research and creative work.&nbsp;</p><p><a href="/atlas/catherine-gach" rel="nofollow">Katie Gach </a>received a summer fellowship, providing a summer stipend&nbsp;to support her dissertation research on how people manage post-mortem social media data.</p><p><a href="/atlas/keke-wu" rel="nofollow">Keke Wu</a> received the Ray Hauser award to support her <a href="/atlas/2021/05/10/data-accessibility-leveling-field-those-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities" rel="nofollow">data accessibility research</a>. For her pioneering work, Wu recently won a&nbsp;Best 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 <a href="/atlas/visualab" rel="nofollow">VisuaLab</a>.</p><p><a href="/atlas/fiona-bell" rel="nofollow">Fiona Bell </a>received a&nbsp;Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.&nbsp;Bell, who&nbsp;<a href="/atlas/2021/02/23/atlas-phd-students-take-home-top-student-design-awards-tei21" rel="nofollow">took home a top award</a>&nbsp;from the 15th ACM International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) Student Design Challenge for her&nbsp;<a href="https://tei.acm.org/2021/swatchbook/the-undyeing-swatch/" rel="nofollow">Undyeing Swatch</a>&nbsp;project, is a member of the&nbsp;<a href="/atlas/living-matter-lab" rel="nofollow">Living Matter Lab</a>. She also completed a<a href="/atlas/2020/07/24/atlas-graduate-student-assists-accenture-labs-development-self-cleaning-textiles" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;prestigious internship</a> with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en/about/accenture-labs-index" rel="nofollow">Accenture Labs</a>, assisting with the development of self-cleaning textiles.</p><p><a href="/atlas/kailey-shara" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kailey Shara</a>, a&nbsp;researcher in the <a href="/atlas/enl" rel="nofollow">Emergent Nanomaterials Lab,</a>&nbsp;received a&nbsp;Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant for her research on laboratory automation systems. Shara recently<a href="/atlas/2021/04/13/atlas-phd-students-compete-nvc-14-audience-choice-award" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">&nbsp;took home top awards</a>&nbsp;from both NVC14 and the New Venture&nbsp;Launch class for her laboratory automation startup, Chembotix.</p><p><a href="/atlas/dreycey-albin" rel="nofollow">Dreycey&nbsp;Albin</a>, an affiliated ATLAS student and a researcher in the <a href="/atlas/living-matter-lab" rel="nofollow">Living Matter Lab</a>, received a&nbsp;Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.</p><p>Gabriella Johnson and <a href="/atlas/varsha-koushik" rel="nofollow">Varsha Koushik</a>, affiliated ATLAS students and&nbsp;researchers in the Superhuman Computing Labs, were donor award recipients; Koushik also received the&nbsp;Hope Schultz Jozsa Award and a&nbsp;Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.</p><p><a href="/atlas/sasha-novack" rel="nofollow">Sasha Novack</a>, a researcher in the <a href="/atlas/living-matter-lab" rel="nofollow">Living Matter Lab</a>,&nbsp;received a&nbsp;Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant.</p><p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>ATLAS PhD students Katie Gach, Keke Wu, Fiona Bell, Kailey Shara and Sasha Novack, and Affiliated PhD students Gabrielle Johnson, Dreycey Albin and Varsha Koushik recently received graduate school awards. </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Tue, 18 May 2021 17:04:40 +0000 Anonymous 3715 at /atlas