{"id":203608,"date":"2012-09-26T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2012-09-26T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:36","slug":"faculty-grad-student-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/09\/faculty-grad-student-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty &#038; Grad Student News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/faculty-yaakov2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11829 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"faculty-yaakov2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/faculty-yaakov2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"180\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 138px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 138\/180;\" \/><\/a>Dr. <strong>Yaakov Bar-Shalom<\/strong>, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and the Marianne E. Klewin Endowed Professor in Engineering, is the top-ranked academic in the Aeronautical and Space Engineering field as judged by a complex formula that measures number of scholarly journal publications and number of citations\/journal paper, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.research.microsoft.com\/RankList?entitytype=2&amp;topdomainid=8&amp;subdomainid=1&amp;last=0\">academic.research.microsoft.com<\/a>, one of several academic ranking organizations.\u00a0 Of Dr. Bar-Shalom\u2019s estimated 364 scholarly papers, 42 have 42 or more citations, which leads to an overall h index of 42. \u00a0Alumnus Dr. Thiagalingam Kirubarajan (M.S., Ph.D, Electrical Engineering, \u201995, \u201998), a professor at McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) is ranked number five based on the same criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Chemical Engineering doctoral student <strong>Hom Sharma<\/strong> has received a coveted three-year Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowship, which provides him $25,000 annually in addition to <a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grad-sharma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13216 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"grad-sharma\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/grad-sharma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 140px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 140\/216;\" \/><\/a>covering tuition\/fees and other expenses. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ncer\/fellow\/\">EPA STAR<\/a> (Science to Achieve Results) program funds graduate environmental study and has awarded approximately 1,500 fellowships nationwide since its inception in 1995. Hom, who is advised by Dr. Ramamurthy Ramprasad, is the first UConn engineering graduate student to receive the award. The STAR Fellowship will support Hom\u2019s computational and experimental investigation into new methods for reducing toxic vehicular exhaust emissions, including carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, volatile organic compounds and other emissions associated with adverse health effects and climate change. His work will help to overcome challenges inherent in the development of catalyst screening tools and aid in the identification of improved sulfur resistant diesel oxidation catalysts materials. Furthermore, engines and after-treatment system manufacturers (who are required to meet increasingly stringent standards) will benefit from his research findings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about recent honors and activities of our engineering faculty and graduate students, who are respected leaders in research, instruction, mentoring and professional societies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-203608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-30 06:10:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203608"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203608"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}