Informatics Grad Student Named First LabWare Fellow
A student at the Indiana University School of Informatics has been selected as the first recipient of a new fellowship established by LabWare Inc.
Swati Lakhanpal, a graduate student at the School’s Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, was awarded the LabWare Fellowship in Innovation in Laboratory Informatics. The $30,000 fellowship, awarded annually, aids a student enrolled in the laboratory informatics graduate program and enables the student to further their study and conduct
full-time research under the guidance of program faculty. Lakhanpal earned a master’s in chemical engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology and completed her undergraduate work at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
”Swati Lakhanpal is a perfect choice to be inaugural recipient of the LabWare Fellowship for Innovation in Laboratory Informatics,” says Douglas Perry, Ph.D., associate dean for graduate studies and research and director of the Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program. “She will apply her knowledge and skills as a chemical engineer to extend the practice of laboratory informatics through her thesis research.”
The Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program at IUPUI, the first of its kind in the nation, is designed for students with undergraduate degrees in laboratory-based sciences who seek advanced training in laboratory informatics to pursue careers in the agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries.
LabWare is an international software products company focused exclusively on configurable laboratory information management systems (LIMS). Many international companies rely on LabWare LIMS to support their product development and quality assurance functions. Informatics is an evolving field that explains the impact of information technology and develops new uses for it in areas such as health, science, the arts, education, business and industry.
The IU School of Informatics was established in 2000 – the first and the largest of its kind in the nation – and has nearly 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in programs at campuses in Bloomington, Indianapolis and South Bend.
