Chemical and biomolecular engineering doctoral student Jiachun Shi has been selected as a winner of the Outstanding Graduate Student Member Award by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). Shi is one of only five graduate students to receive this award, which is one of several awards that are part of the organization’s annual awards program.

“I am honored to be one of the five Outstanding Graduate Student Member Award recipients this year,” Shi said. “Receiving this award is definitely a milestone in my academic journey, and this recognition reinforces my commitment to the SWE mission of empowering women to achieve their full potential in their careers and demonstrating the value of diversity and inclusion. I want to express my gratitude to everyone I interacted with daily and during my past involvement in various graduate student-oriented organizations on and off campus because you all inspire me in different ways. I look forward to contributing more to the mission in the future.”

Read more from Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

The full list of winners is available at https://swe.org/awards/swe-awards-program/.