{"id":3008,"date":"2021-10-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T16:08:41","slug":"ivy-league-school-pursues-umes-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/for-the-media\/news-releases\/ivy-league-school-pursues-umes-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League School Pursues UMES Student"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting accepted to an Ivy League school is a dream come true; having them pursue you is unimaginable.  That\u2019s just the position Ayobami Ogunmolasuyi, a senior engineering major with a mechanical specialization from Nigeria, was fortunate to find himself in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following his December 2019 graduation from UMES, Ogunmolasuyi will be an Engineering Sciences Ph.D. student in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.  Dartmouth offered the UMES student a full scholarship and stipend to attend the prestigious institution starting in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a good feeling,\u201d Ogunmolasuyi said upon being contacted by Dartmouth.  \u201cGod is at work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogunmolasuyi was \u201cdiscovered\u201d when he attended an Annual Biomedical Research Conference in Indianapolis in November 2018.  There he presented his research \u201cNumerical Simulation of Fluid Flow and Mixing in Microchannels\u201d that he conducted under the lead of Dr. Kausiksankar Das, associate professor, physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microfluidics, the study of fluid flow and mixing in microchannels, has various applications, Ogunmolasuyi said.  The most important of which are the functional organs on a chip.  \u201cThese are functional human organs on a microchip which include the kidney-on-a-chip and lungs-on-a-chip for testing drugs,\u201d he said.  \u201cThe bottleneck that the micofluides industry faces, he said, is the inability of fluids to perfectly mix in these channels due to the miniature size of the mixing chamber, which is where our lab steps in.\u201d  He said they are exploring methods such as periodic slip and no slip boundary conditions, and baker\u2019s transformation to derive an efficient mixing technique for fluids in microchannels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the conference, a representative of the school reached out to Das and said they wanted to talk to Ogunmolasuyi about an opening in the lab there.  Ogunmolasuyi has been in conversation with them since and was invited to visit Dartmouth in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a funny story,\u201d Ogunmolasuyi said.  \u201cI will be working with the senior associate dean of the Thayer School of Engineering on Ice Mechanics research, which was not the original person that contacted me.  He snatched me from him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does the future hold for Ogunmolasuyi?  He would like to become a fluid mechanics researcher and hopefully start his own research company focusing in Fluid Mechanics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das, his mentor, couldn\u2019t be prouder.  \u201cAchieving that feat (getting accepted to an Ivy League graduate school) from UMES shows that our students have the talent and potential to reach any peak of excellence in their career,\u201d Das said.  \u201cI have no doubt that in the future Ayobami will continue to achieve more laurels and make us proud.  Congratulations and best wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Details concerning the Das Research Group activities can be found at https\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/kausik-das\/research<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayobami is a recipient of a Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation fellowship and Dr. Das\u2019 teaching and research are supported by the National Science Foundation (HBCU-UP Award #1719425), the Department of Education (MSEIP Award #P120A70068) with a MSEIP CCEM grant, and the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute through a MIPS grant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting accepted to an Ivy League school is a dream come true; having them pursue you is unimaginable.  That\u2019s just the position Ayobami Ogunmolasuyi, a senior engineering major with a mechanical specialization from Nigeria, was fortunate to find himself in. Following his December 2019 graduation from UMES, Ogunmolasuyi will be an Engineering Sciences Ph.D. student…Read more Ivy League School Pursues UMES Student<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-3008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}