May 2026

• Amey Thorat is hooded by Jindal Shah at the OSU Graduate College Commencement. 

• Congratulations to Naserian Kambaine for successfully passing PhD proposal defense.

• Sudip Kumar Das is presented with the 2026 Outstanding CHE Graduate Student by the graduate students.

• Jindal Shah is recognized with the 2026 Outstanding CHE Graduate Faculty Award.

April 2026

• Sudip Kumar Das is recognized with the CEAT Outstanding Graduate Student for CHE at the CEAT Annual Award Banquet.

• Congratulations to Amey Thorat for defending his PhD dissertation,  "Leveraging solvation environment for predicting trends in bulk properties of liquids using molecular dynamics and machine learning."

• Congratulations to Sudip Kumar Das for defending his PhD dissertation, "Developing a molecular level understanding of ionic liquid biodegradation with cytochrome P450 using density functional theory (DFT) and molecular dynamics simulations (MD)."