{"id":1543,"date":"2017-04-20T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:10:53","slug":"karun-kumar-rao-is-selected-as-nasa-space-technology-research-fellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Karun Kumar Rao is selected as NASA Space Technology Research Fellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, our group is now doing rocket science! Our first year graduate student Karun Kumar Rao received a prestigious and highly competitive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/strg\/archives_nstrf.html\" title=\"NASA Space Technology Research Fellowships (NSTRF)\" target=\"_blank\">Space Technology Research Fellowship from NASA<\/a> to conduct research on solid state electrolytes for lithium ion batteries. His computational research in our group is complemented with experimental work in the lab of our collaborator <a href=\"http:\/\/yaoyangroup.com\" title=\"Yao Research Group\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Yan Yao<\/a>. Congratulations to Karun and we are all looking forward to the exiting results to come! For the full story and interviews with Karun, please visit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uh.edu\/news-events\/stories\/2017\/April\/04202017Rao-NASA-Fellowship.php\" title=\"Building a Better Battery\" target=\"_blank\">University of Houston News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.egr.uh.edu\/news\/201704\/phd-student-studies-solid-state-batteries-prestigious-nasa-fellowship\" title=\"Ph.D. Student Studies Solid-State Batteries With Prestigious NASA Fellowship\" target=\"_blank\">Cullen College of Engineering News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u705ODIqlBE\" title=\"This Week@UH\" target=\"_blank\">This Week@UH (Video)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2017-04\/uoh-bab042017.php\" title=\"Eurekalert!\" target=\"_blank\">Eurekalert!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azocleantech.com\/news.aspx?newsID=24024\" title=\"AZoCleanTech\" target=\"_blank\">AZoCleanTech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, our group is now doing rocket science! Our first year graduate student Karun Kumar Rao received a prestigious and highly competitive Space Technology Research Fellowship from NASA to conduct research on solid state electrolytes for lithium ion batteries. His computational research in our group is complemented with experimental work in the lab of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1544,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9,44],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-kumar-rao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1636,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}