UMES senior receives top student honor by USM Board of Regents

A UMES senior is among the 12 inaugural recipients of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Student Excellence Scholarships. The award is the highest honor that the board awards to recognize exemplary student achievement.

Isaac Omodia, an awardee in the category of academics, scholarship and research, will receive a $2,000 scholarship from the USM and its foundation.

Omadia spent last summer as a research intern at Harvard University in Dr. L. Mahadevan’s laboratory, where he helped develop an experimental prototype to investigate the adhesive effect of induced vibration on a thin elastic sheet. Another summer internship saw him completing a nanofabrication process research internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory with Dr. Gregory Doerk. Last fall, Omadia participated in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Access Program.

“I was able to succeed on these projects with the guidance of my research mentor Dr. Kausik Das from the Department of Natural Sciences and with funding and support from UMES’ LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation) program,” Omadia said.