Updated March 2023

• Congratulations to Alexi Switz for...

• Congratulations to Swastika Bera for completing her MS thesis presentation on March 7 "DEVELOPMENT OF CORN KERNEL-BASED BIOCOMPOSITE FILMS FOR FOOD PACKAGING APPLICATIONS"

• Prasad Lab is ACTIVE at its new location. See some of our YouTube Videos and lab pics on the Media page. Our member profile is COMING SOON!

•  The lab is moving to a new location at Florida International University starting Fall 2022! 

• Congratulation Dr.  Mukesh and Dr. Prasad on  new publications

• Prasad lab in collaboration with Education Director Dr. Bree Oatman from South Dakota Discovery center has been awarded Wokini Challenge Grant FY'23 for "Engineering Design Inspired by Nature: Culturally Integrated Materials Science Education" (July 2022 to June 2024).

• New 2-year Grant from North Central Regional Sun Grant Center "Translating Cellulose-based Biomass to Engineered Biocomposite" starting July 2022.

• MS Student Trupti Mali successfully defended her MS Thesis " Nanomechanical Characterisation and Comparison of Additively Manufactured GRCop-42 alloy". CONGRATULATIONS!! (May 2022)

• MS Student Temitope Borode successfully defended his MS Thesis "Design of Polyaniline  Based Sensor for Real Time Plant Growth Monitoring". CONGRATULATIONS!! (May 2022)

• Welcoming BioX 3D Printer in our lab through grant support from ME Department, Dept of Pharmacy, and SDSU's Division of Research and Economic Development (February 2022).

• Dr. Prasad wins DOD DURIP Defense University Research Equipment Grant! (Fiscal Year 2022). 

• Prasad Lab participated in the Midwest Applied Materials Conference organized by Jerome J Lohr College of Engineering, Nov 2021

• Dr. Prasad wins the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! (Aug 2021).

For earlier news see here