July 24, 2002

Siripurapu, Chemical Engineering Doctoral Candidate, Receives Keep NC Clean and Beautiful Fellowship

Excerpted from a news release by NC State University News Services

A record four North Carolina State University students have been awarded the Governor and Mrs. Dan K. Moore Fellowship to Keep North Carolina Clean and Beautiful for 2002-03 by NC Beautiful.

Selected for the fellowships this year were Adam Luckenbach of Asheboro, a doctoral candidate in zoology; Corey Oakley of New Bern, a master's candidate in zoology; Nathalie Reyns of Morehead City, a doctoral candidate in marine, earth and atmospheric sciences; and Srinivas Siripurapu of Raleigh, a doctoral candidate in chemical engineering.

The fellowships are designed to recognize graduate students who will utilize their knowledge and creativity to provide solutions to North Carolina's environmental issues. The award of $10,000 per student will be used to support those students' research efforts.

Siripurapu is concentrating on developing novel carbon dioxide-based polymer processing technologies to produce a new generation of foamed plastics. He hopes his research will lead to stronger aircraft parts, low-k dielectrics for newer microelectronic devices and biomedical scaffolds for tissue engineering.

A total of 12 NC State students have received the award since its inception in 1995, one each year until 2001, when two students received the award. NC Beautiful officials said that because of the strength of this year's candidates, contingency funds were used to offer four fellowships this year.

NC Beautiful is a non-profit organization focused on protecting , preserving and enhancing the state's appearance, as well as educating students and citizens about sustaining the environment for future generations. In addition to the Governor and Mrs. Dan K. Moore Fellowship, NC Beautiful awarded its first undergraduate research awards in 2002, and hopes to expand the program statewide.

-- excerpted from complete release by benton --

Media Contacts:

Jane Rogers, 919/787-1693 or ncbeautiful@bellsouth.net

Benny Benton, News Services, 919/515-3470 or benny_benton@ncsu.edu

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