In addition, Jenabay Hupman<\/strong>, who received bachelor\u2019s degrees in Environmental Engineering and German in May, was awarded the Outstanding Senior Scholar in German. The award was presented by the Department of Modern and Classical Languages\u2019 German section at UConn.<\/p>\n Other News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Engineering graduate students recently formed a new networking organization, the Student Association of Graduate Engineers (SAGE<\/a><\/strong>). The group sponsored a barbeque held May 13th<\/sup> at Mansfield Hollow State Park, which attracted nearly 100 graduate students, family members and friends. \u00a0Under sunny skies, attendees enjoyed grilled food and ice cream, and relaxed with frisbees, soccer and bocce balls.\u00a0 \u00a0The group plans additional activities, including academic, social, and career planning events, in the months ahead. Visit the SAGE website<\/a> for details.\u00a0 SAGE is chaired by Chujiao Ma and co-Chair Yamalia Roberts.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/student_honors_Zhong_Yang.jpg\" "\\"student_honors_Zhong_Yang\\"")
<\/a>Yang Zhong<\/strong>, a doctoral candidate advised by Dr. Leon Shaw, was one of just 14 students selected to receive a fellowship enabling him to participate in the 2011 Center for Space Nuclear Research (CSNR) Summer Fellowship Program.\u00a0 The CSNR program is an intensive 10-week program for graduate and undergraduate students in a variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. \u00a0It was created at the Idaho National Laboratory as a means to investigate potential nuclear technologies that could dramatically alter space exploration.\u00a0 Over 50 students applied for the summer 2011 fellowships.\u00a0 Yang\u2019s project involves tungsten cermet fabrication, the development of a \u201cuniversal encapsulation\u201d for all radioactive sources that are to be launched from Earth, including radioisotope sources, nuclear rockets and nuclear reactors for surface power.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>On June 1, the UConn chapters of SPIE and OSA jointly hosted a one-day student conference on optics and photonics<\/strong>. \u00a0The conference, co-sponsored by the Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, featured a keynote address by Dr. Michael Bove of the MIT Media Lab, entitled \u201cMoving Holographic TV from the Lab to Your Living Room.\u201d\u00a0 Graduate students from ECE, the Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology and Material Science from both UConn and Yale also presented their research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"