Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) has announced that two MIT PhD students, Krithika Ramchander and Andrea Beck, have been awarded fellowships to pursue water resource solutions for the 2018-2019 academic year. A third student, Julia Sokol, was chosen to receive an honorable mention. This fall will mark the second year that J-WAFS has awarded fellowships to outstanding PhD candidates pursuing water sector research. The Rasikbhai L. Meswani Fellowship for Water Solutions and the J-WAFS Graduate Student Fellowship Program both give fellows one semester of funding as well as networking, mentorship, and opportunities to showcase their research. The students were selected based on the quality and relevance of their research, as well as their demonstrated commitment to global as well as local challenges of water safety and water supply. The doctoral research topics the students are pursuing exemplify the wide range of approaches that J-WAFS supports across its various funding mechanisms. From the development of a novel, environmentally sustainable, and accessible water filter...