The Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI), the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) are pleased to announce the list of candidates selected for the prestigious 2018-2019 Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Program. The program will award the following 1 Indian early-career faculty with WARI Fellowships and 7 Indian PhD students with WARI Internships to conduct water-related research under the mentorship of UNL faculty.
Fellows
- Dhanya C T, associate professor, Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, Nebraska faculty mentors: Dr. Ayse Kilic, UNL School of Natural Resources and Dr. Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center
Interns
- Saran Aadhar, Ph.D. student, Indian Institute of Technology – Gandhinagar, Nebraska faculty mentors: Drs. Brian Wardlow and Tsegaye Tadesse, National Drought Mitigation Center.
- Kausik Ghosh, Ph.D. student, Vidyasagar University, Nebraska faculty mentor: Dr. Francisco Munoz-Arriola, UNL Biological Systems Engineering.
- Syed Ibrahim Gnani Peer Mohamed, Ph.D. student, National Institute of Technology Srinivasanagar Surathkal, Mangalore, Nebraska faculty mentors: Dr. Siamak Nejati, UNL Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Dr. Ashraf Aly Hassan, UNL Civil Engineering.
- Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D. student, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, Nebraska faculty mentors: Dr. Dan Snow, Nebraska Water Center; Dr. Xu Li, UNL Civil Engineering.
- Tanushree Parsai, Ph.D. student, Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, Nebraska faculty mentors: Drs. Yusong Li and Xu Li, UNL Civil Engineering.
- Rudra Mohan Pradhan, Ph.D. student, Indian Institute of Technology – Mumbai, Nebraska faculty mentors: Dr. Dan Snow, Nebraska Water Center; Dr. Karrie Weber, UNL School of Biological Sciences and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
- Himani Uppal, Ph.D. student, CSIR - National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, Nebraska faculty mentor: Dr. Xu Li, UNL Civil Engineering.