Frankenhoff Outstanding Research Award
The Frankenhoff Outstanding Research award is based upon research accomplishments during the past five years, and awardees receive a $3,000 cash prize. Selection criteria include the following:
- Success in obtaining competitive funding and completion of research
- Commitment to graduate education
- Dissemination of research results through publications, presentations, patents, software and other means
- Research leadership such as national recognitions and organizing research teams
Nominations are due Feb. 14, 2025 and application packets are due March 31, 2025.
Current recipient
Vaishali Sharda
This year’s recipient is Vaishali Sharda, associate professor in the Carl and Melinda Helwig Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.
Research funding agencies have found Sharda’s work highly relevant as she has obtained approximately $28 million in external funding to support her programs, including a $6 million NSF EPSCoR project.
She is the first faculty member in the 112-year history of the biological and agricultural engineering department to receive a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation.