{"id":9606,"date":"2024-02-29T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=9606"},"modified":"2024-03-01T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:51:23","slug":"umes-professor-appointed-to-governors-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/umes-professor-appointed-to-governors-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"UMES professor appointed to Governor’s Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has appointed University of Maryland Eastern Shore physics professor Dr. Kausik Das to the Governor\u2019s Commission on South Asian American Affairs. The Jan. 2 announcement listed Das, the only representative from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, among 20 new members who will serve a four-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission is an advisory body to the governor and executive agencies and focuses on issues impacting Maryland\u2019s growing South Asian American community. It\u2019s scope of work focuses on economic, educational and workforce development matters. Appointees were selected for their ability to bring diverse Asian and professional backgrounds to the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am truly honored to have been selected by the governor to serve on this commission that reflects my Indian heritage and values,\u201d Das said. \u201cAs a professor at a historically Black university and an 1890 land-grant university, I am also a voice for the broader minority community in our state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Das\u2019 decade long career at UMES, he has become known for his innovative research for which he involves undergraduate and graduate students. Among his areas of expertise are micro\/nano fluidic mixing, creating on-chip graphene-based nano-inductors, low temperature plasma generation and space physics. His work earned the researcher selection as a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das\u2019 desire to \u201ccreate a more immersive, interactive and effective learning environment\u201d also earmarked him as the natural selection for director of the school\u2019s Center for Student Excellence, said Dr. Moses T. Kairo, dean of UMES\u2019 School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences.<\/a> He was also presented the University System of Maryland Board of Regents\u2019 2021 Award of Excellence for the category of scholarship, research and creative activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Das is a member of the India Cultural Society of the Eastern Shore and has served on the governing board of the Hindu Temple of the Eastern Shore. In this role, he educates young community members about the Indian philosophy of Vedanta, emphasizing harmony and global brotherhood regardless of color, creed or religion. On a personal note, he is also an artist who shared Rangoli, a Hindu art form passed from generation to generation for thousands of years, at the 80th<\/sup> National Folk Festival in Salisbury, Maryland.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Stephens, Ag Communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension,<\/em> <\/em><\/a>gcstephens@umes.edu<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Todd Dudek, Ag Communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension, <\/em>tdudek@umes.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has appointed University of Maryland Eastern Shore physics professor Dr. Kausik Das to the Governor\u2019s Commission on South Asian American Affairs. The Jan. 2 announcement listed Das, the only representative from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, among 20 new members who will serve a four-year term. The commission is an advisory…Read more UMES professor appointed to Governor’s Commission<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"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":40,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-february-2024","category-sans-monthly-digest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606","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\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9606"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=9606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}