Student wins travel award
Mengdi Bao, a Ph.D. student in Assistant Professor Ke Du’s lab of mechanical engineering, is one of the only two awardees worldwide for the Biosensors 2021 Travel Award. This prize awards outstanding graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to attend academic conferences related to biosensors.
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