Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence in Research Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (05/18/2012)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University recognizes research excellence by graduate students with a set of awards designed to recognize the wide variety of approaches to the advancement of knowledge on the Binghamton campus and the important role played by graduate students in research at the University.

Mohammad Hamasha of Johnson City, NY, who is pursuing studies in industrial and systems engineering, has received a Graduate Student Excellence in Research award from Binghamton University, State University of New York.

Hamasha was recognized for his research on electromechanical behavior of thin films on flexible substrates in solar photovoltaic applications, accelerated life tests and failure mechanism analysis. Currently working on a research project supported by the Center for Autonomous Solar Power (CASP), he has also worked on projects for Kodak and Orthogonal, Inc. The quality of his scholarly work is clearly reflected in his publications. To date, Hamasha has published five authored or co-authored articles, has four more accepted and several more submitted. He also has three invited papers, 10 conference papers presented at national and international conferences and an additional nine working journal papers in progress.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.