Congratulations to Aditi Kulkarni, NMSU graduate student and NISE program’s teaching assistant; who has received two significant awards. Aditi won the Grad Award for Research Excellence and the Grad Award for Teaching Excellence for 2020.
According to Dr. Tim Wright, the Awards Committee was uniformly impressed with the contributions she has made to both the research and the teaching mission of the NMSU Biology Department. She is the first graduate student to receive both awards in the same year. Combined, both awards provide a monetary sum of $3,000. She plans to turn the investment in her future education and career goals.