Naijia Hao (PhD ’20) received the 2020 Jim and Sändra McKinley Outstanding Graduate Student Award for demonstrating a high degree of effort in the classroom and excellent leadership in the lab.

Thanks to the generosity of Jim and Sändra McKinley, CBE was able to recognize three outstanding PhD candidates at the department’s 2019 awards banquet.

Graduate students Hadi Sefiddashti, Nelly Cantillo, and Tyler Cosby received the Jim and Sändra McKinley Scholarship for their high degree of effort and hard work in their studies.