{"id":3655,"date":"2021-11-22T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/applied-physics-and-materials-science\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2022-10-26T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:12:14","slug":"dr-sam-sumant-sarker-receives-outstanding-doctoral-student-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/dr-sam-sumant-sarker-receives-outstanding-doctoral-student-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. &#8216;Sam&#8217; Sumant Sarkar receives Outstanding Doctoral Student award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. &#8216;Sam&#8217; Sumant Sarkar, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation this past October, has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science.  Sam&#8217;s Ph.D. research focused on the fabrication and analysis of nanohelical structures that exhibit chiral optical properties under the guidance of Prof. John Gibbs.  His work was highlighted in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/sam-sarkar-research\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The NAU Review<\/a> earlier this year.  Sam is the first student to graduate from NAU\u2019s Applied Physics and Materials Science PhD program and will formally receive his degree later this fall.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/372\/sam-sarkar-photo-300x450.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Sarkar Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-portrait-image wp-image-3657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/372\/sam-sarkar-photo-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/372\/sam-sarkar-photo-150x225.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. &#8216;Sam&#8217; Sumant Sarkar, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation this past October, has been awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student in the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science. Sam&#8217;s Ph.D. research focused on the fabrication and analysis of nanohelical structures that exhibit chiral optical properties under the guidance of Prof. John Gibbs. His work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-applied-physics-materials-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}