Alejandro Cardenas, Pranjal Ralegankar, and Varsha Subramanyan are 2020 Mavis Faculty Fellows

Illinois Physics PhD students Alejandro Cardenas Avendano, Pranjal Ralegankar, and Varsha Subramanyan have been selected as Mavis Future Faculty Fellows for the 2020-2021 academic year. This program is designed to help doctoral students in the College of Engineering become the next generation of great engineering faculty.

Alejandro is a PhD student in Nico Yunes' group, Pranjal is a PhD student in Jessie Shelton's group, and Varsha is a PhD student in Smitha Vishveshwara's group. Alejandro, Pranjal, and Varsha join Illinois Physics graduate students Katie Ansell, Jahan Claes, Gloria Lee, Rachael Mansbach, Yulia Maximenko, Karmela Padavic, Mindy Rak, Preetha Sarkar, Astha Sethi, Rezvan Shahoei, and Michelle Victora as recent/current Mavis Future Faculty Fellows.