PhD Student Wins Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award
Main photo: Zumrat Usmanova, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, second from left in line, received a highly competitive Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award from The Adhesion Society.
Zumrat Usmanova
Zumrat Usmanova, PhD’27, mechanical engineering, who is advised by Ruobing Bai, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, was recognized with the highly competitive Alan Gent Distinguished Student Paper Award from The Adhesion Society for her paper “Peel and Architected Interface Roles of Softness and Fractocohesive Length in Adhesion Toughening.” Usmanova was one of seven students selected from a group of 20 to receive the society’s Peebles Award for Graduate Student Research in Adhesion Science, which supported her conference travel and presentation. From that group, just two received the Alan Gent award.