by Abhishek Kumar Sharma | May 16, 2020 | Lisa Walker Travel Grant Awardees
The Lisa Walker Award allowed me to attend two virtual conferences, ACS Meetings & Expos and ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium in 2021. I was awarded in 2019, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, my conferences were postponed for one year. During this...
by Abhishek Kumar Sharma | May 16, 2020 | Lisa Walker Travel Grant Awardees
Attending the PSCO Conference will allow me to make my second ever presentation ( andmy first internationally) on the research I have worked on during my two-year research-based Master’s degree. The opportunity to have my work exposed to others working towards the...
by Abhishek Kumar Sharma | May 16, 2020 | Lisa Walker Travel Grant Awardees
Thanks to the Lisa Walker Award, I got an opportunity to travel to U.C. Davis and U.C. Berkeley to test our newly developed water stress sensor, called a micro-tensiometer, with our collaborators. In Davis, I learned to improve the in-plant installation skills. In...