1. Council of Graduate Students Muhammad Azeem Raza 04/19/2012

2. Council of Graduate Students 1. Elections for New Executive Board 1. President: Mohammad Alkazimi 2. Vice President: Uday Guntupalli 3. Secretary: Heng Liu 4. Treasurer: Omkar Ghatpande

3. Council of Graduate Students 2. Graduate Research Showcase 68 Graduate Students showcased their research 29 Faculty Judges including 3 post-docs $3000 prize money to be awarded 1 st Place: $500 2 nd Place: $400 3 rd Place: $300

4. Council of Graduate Students AwardNameDepartmentAdvisorTitle SESSION 1 1st Place Hamed Kajbaf Electrical and Computer Engineering Dr. Rosa Y. Zheng Compressed Sensing for 3D SAR Imaging Systems 2nd Place Varun PaulGeologyDr.David J. Wronkiewicz Carbon dioxide Sequestration Using Sulfate Reducing Bacteria 3rd Place Vishwanath Gandikota Materials Science and Engineering Dr. Yangchuan Xing Continous Flame Synthesis of ZnO nanorods 3rd Place Chakkaravarthy Chidambareswarapatta r ChemistryDr. Nicholas Leventis From Flexible to Hard Polyurethane Aerogels: The Effect of Molecular Functionality vs. Molecular Rigidity SESSION 2 1st Place Sachin SharmaPhysicsDr. Michael Schulz Effect of Coherence on Single Electron Capture of H2 by 75 keV Proton 2nd Place Chrystian Mauricio Posada Nuclear EngineeringDr. Carlos H. Castano Simulation and prototype fabrication of the electron source for a flat panel X-ray source 3rd Place Edwin GrantNuclear EngineeringDr. Hyoung-Koo Lee Monte Carlo Simulations of a Flat-Panel Micro X-ray Source 3rd Place Chou ShenCivil and Architectural EngineeringDr. Joon-Ho ChoiSmart Control for Ventilation

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6. 3. Travel Grant Awarded 1.$2000 as Travel Grant 2.10 participants @$200

7. Council of Graduate Students 4. GradVision (CGS Newsletter/Yearbook) Annual Graduate Student Newletter is ready to be published Introduced Memories Section Interesting Articles

8. Council of Graduate Students Thank You All!