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  • Aug 2024 – Mohammad Zarei won the microscopy imaging contest at NCSU. Congratulations!
  • July 2024 – Mohammad Zarei won the COE travel award!
  • Nov 2023 – Prof. Kota received a NIH R01 grant to investigate blood material interaction on SLIC coatings. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2023 – Prof. Kota received a CDMRP grant to investigate LVAD device development for army vetrans. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2023 – Prof. Kota received an NSF LEAP HI grant to investigate fundamentals of anti thrombotic coatings. Congratulations!
  • May 2023 – Sravanthi successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
  • Jan 2023 – Mohammed Barrubeeah won the Mentored teaching fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Dec 2022 – Prof. Kota received the Teaching Excellence award. Congratulations!
  • Dec 2022 – Mohammed Barrubeeah successfully defended his Master’s thesis. Congratulations! 
  • Oct 2022 – Sreekiran won the microscopy imaging contest at NCSU and Research Triangle Network. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2022 – Sravanthi won the Mentored teaching fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2022 – Prof. Kota received a NIH R21 grant to investigate anti-thrombotic coatings. Congratulations!
  • Jul 2022 – Prof. Kota received the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund to investigate icephobic surface development. Congratulations!
  • Jan 2022 – Sravanthi won Mentored teaching fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Jan 2022 – Prof. Kota received an NWI grant to investigate hydrocarbon-based oil repelling non-woven coatings. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2021 – Sravanthi won the imaging contest at NCSU and Research Triangle Network. Congratulations!
  • Jul 2021 – Prof. Kota received Goodnight Early career innovator award. Congratulations! 
  • Jul 2021 – Prof. Kota received tenure at NCSU. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2020 – Prof. Kota won the NCSU Image contest for faculty. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2020 – Dr. Wei Wang joined University of Tennessee as Assistant Professor. Congratulations!
  • Mar 2020 – Prem Kantham successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations! 
  • Aug 2019 – Kota Research Group moved to the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University.
  • Jul 2019 – Prof. Kota received the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award. Congratulations!
  • May 2019 – Prof. Kota received tenure at CSU. Congratulations!
  • May 2019 – Daniel Sutherland successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • May 2019  – Hamed Vahabi successfully defended his Doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
  • Nov 2018  – Prof. Kota received the George T. Abell Outstanding Early-Career Faculty Award from CSU. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2018  – Matthew Cackovic successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • Jun 2018  – Sanli Movafaghi successfully defended her Doctoral dissertation. Congratulations!
  • Jun 2018  – Sanli Movafaghi won the outstanding graduate poster award at ACS Fluoropolymer workshop. Congratulations!
  • Summer 2018  – Kota research group conducted outreach workshops called “Fun with Surfaces” for underrepresented high school students from the Denver public school district (primarily African American & Hispanic) and TriUte Native American tribes.
  • May 2018  – Hamed Vahabi won the Paul Wilbur Scholarship. Congratulations!
  • Apr 2018  – Prof. Kota received the NSF CAREER Award to investigate sustainable super-repellent surfaces. Congratulations!
  • Mar 2018  – Hamed Vahabi won the ACS Poly travel award. Congratulations!
  • Mar 2018  – Sravanthi Vallabhuneni successfully defended her Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • Jan 2018  – Matthew Cackovic won the LSAMP best graduate poster award. Congratulations!
  • Dec 2017  – Prof. Kota received an NIH R21 grant to investigate superomniphobic coatings for biomedical devices. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2017  – Anudeep Pendurthi successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • Sep 2017  – Prof. Kota received the ACS PRF New Directions grant to investigate role of contact angle hysteresis in single phase flows. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2017  – Sanli Movafaghi won the Walter Scott Jr. CoE Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Jul 2017  – Prof. Kota received an NIH R01 grant to investigate superhydrophobic heart valve prosthesis. Congratulations!
  • Jun 2017  – Lewis Boyd successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • Summer 2017  – Kota research group conducted outreach workshops called “Fun with Surfaces” for underrepresented high school students from the Denver public school district (primarily African American & Hispanic) and TriUte Native American tribes.
  • Apr 2017  – Hamed Vahabi won people’s choice award for best presentation at the CSU Ventures Innovation Symposium. Congratulations!
  • Oct 2016  – Matthew Cackovic won the Gary Olson scholarship. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2016  – Lewis Boyd won 1st prize for best poster at the ACS Young Talent in Colorado and Beyond. Congratulations!
  • Aug 2016  – Matthew Cackovic won the NSF Bridge to Doctorate scholarship. Congratulations!
  • Summer 2016  – Kota research group conducted outreach workshops called “Fun with Surfaces” for underrepresented high school students from the Denver public school district (primarily African American & Hispanic) and TriUte Native American tribes.
  • Apr 2016  – Sanli Movafaghi won people’s choice award for best presentation at the CSU Ventures Innovation Symposium. Congratulations!
  • Mar 2016  – Prof. Kota received the US Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship. Congratulations!
  • Feb 2016  – Prof. Kota received the Teaching Excellence Award from CSU. Congratulations!
  • Jul 2015  – Darryl Beemer successfully defended his Masters thesis. Congratulations!
  • Summer 2015  – Kota research group conducted outreach workshops on Surface Science for underrepresented (primarily women and African American) freshmen engineering students, underrepresented high school students from the Denver public school district (primarily African American & Hispanic) and Native American middle school and high school students from TriUte tribes.
  • Jun 2014  – Prof. Kota’s paper received the Institution of Civil Engineers – Best Science Paper Award. Congratulations!
  • Summer 2014  – Kota research group conducted an outreach workshop on Engineering and Surface Science for underrepresented (primarily African American) high school students from the Poudre school district.
  • April 2014  – Darryl Beemer received the “Outstanding Senior Researcher” award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering @ CSU. Congratulations!
  • August 2013  – Kota Research Group started in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University.