COLLEGE STATION, Texas, May 28, 2008 – Srinivas Pullela, a graduate student working with Assistant Professor Zhengdong Cheng in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been invited to discuss his research at the 2008 SoftMatt symposium at North Carolina State University.
Pullela, whose abstract was selected by a committee of five judges for oral presentation at the symposium, will be one of only five graduate students presenting research June 19 at the national conference. For his selection, he will receive a monetary prize from the symposium organizers.
At the symposium, Pullela will speak about “Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics of the Intelligent Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Colloids.
“Srinivas is a student with drive and ambition,” Cheng said. “This invitation recognizes the novelty and competitiveness of his research.”
This is the second distinction in as many months for Pullela, who this past April was one of two graduate students in the chemical engineering department to receive an “Outstanding Accomplishments in Interdisciplinary Research” award. That honor was bestowed upon Pullela for his significant academic and practical contributions in more than one field of study and came during Texas A&M’s 11th Annual Student Research Week.
SoftMatt 2008, which is organized in conjunction with the 82nd American Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Science Symposium, offers graduate and undergraduate students involved in soft material research at universities a forum in which to share their results and meet their peers.
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