Awards and recognition

w88 sports betting Award for Exceptional Mentoring

Satish Manandhar, Ph.D., 2025 Postdoc Mentoring Awardee


Satish ManandharSatish Manandhar is a w88 sports betting scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering working with Ramin Motamed. His research aims to understand how soil-structure systems respond during earthquakes using physical model testing in large-scale experiments. For the last two years, Satish has mentored graduate and undergraduate students in the lab, fostering both the professional and personal growth of his mentees. Ramin Motamed notes, "As a result of his exceptional mentorship, the students have made great progress in their research and have consistently praised Dr. Manandhar for his passion, patience, and dedication as a mentor."

Not only has Satish offered his time to mentor those around him, but he has also served on the executive board of the w88 sports betting, Reno Postdoctoral Association. Congratulations Satish on this outstanding award!

About the w88 sports betting Award for Exceptional Mentoring

The Graduate School’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is pleased to announce the w88 sports betting, Reno’s Mentoring Award for Postdoctoral Scholars. Postdocs play a vital role in our research, teaching, and outreach missions at the University, and exceptional postdocs can play a transformative role in developing the next generation of researchers.

Nominations now open

The Office of w88 sports betting Affairs currently seeks nominations for exceptional postdocs who dedicate time, energy, and effort to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. The w88 sports betting Award for Exceptional Mentoring recipient receives a one-time honorarium of ,000 and a certificate of achievement presented at the “Honor the Best” ceremony.

Nominations are evaluated on the quality and impact of the postdoc’s mentoring contributions, so specific examples are encouraged with particular attention to the following attributes:

  • Demonstrated record of mentoring and serving as a role model for students.
  • Ability to balance excellence in mentoring with excellence in research and scholarship, including strengths in collaborative efforts, publication, and presentation records.
  • Contribution toward supporting traditionally underrepresented groups within the postdoc’s discipline.

Nominations are due March 1, 2024 by 11:59 p.m.

Questions?Contact Loren Pietsch, Director of w88 sports betting Affairs, Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Initiatives atlpietsch@unr.edu.

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2022-23 PAICE Program seed funding awards announced

Congratulations to two University postdocs on their seed grant being awarded through the PAICE program! Mohana Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy, from the Department of Psychology, and Daniel Haden, from the Department of Physics, are collaborating on the proposal: Development of a comprehensive Amblyopic Aniseikonia test in a dichoptic system. Congrats to these two outstanding members of our University community!

Mohana Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy

Psychology


MohanaMohana Kuppuswamy Parthasarathy is an Optometrist from India. She is doing her w88 sports betting fellowship with Michael Webster in the Department of Psychology. Her current research is focused on visual adaptation with multifocal contact lenses and medical images. Her areas of research interest include visual adaptation, perceptual learning, medical imaging and community health.

Daniel Haden

Physics


Daniel HadenDaniel Haden is a physicist who earned his degree from the University of Nebraska in the generation of x-ray radiation from short-pulse lasers. His research interests include high-intensity lasers, computational physics and high energy density physics. Currently, Daniel is researching electron-ion equilibration in warm-dense-matter in a w88 sports betting fellowship under the supervision of Thomas White in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.