Class of 2012 Physics alumnus, Taiyo Wilson, was awarded a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship. Taiyo is a current PhD Candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Receipt of this fellowship will enable Taiyo to collaborate with top researchers in the field in addition to traveling to various NASA research centers to conduct his research. The full feature written by Illinois Wesleyan can be found here. For additional information regarding Taiyo’s research on continuum-kinetic hybrid framework for chemically reacting flows, check out the NASA press release.

Please join me in congratulating Taiyo for this accomplishment!