Graduate Student of the Month - Mohamed Eltarkawe
Mohamed Eltarkawe is a third-year PhD student in Prof. Shelly Miller鈥檚 research group. His research interests are directed towards understanding the relationship between well-being and industrial odors in five communities in Colorado: Fort Collins, Greeley, Fort Lupton, North Denver, and Pueblo. He developed an android app (Report Odor 1) through which he is collecting data.
Mohamed was born in Karsa, a tiny town in the northeastern part of Libya. He got his bachelor鈥檚 degree in Mechanical Engineering from Omar Al-Mukhtar University. In 2008, Mohamed was awarded a full scholarship from the Higher Ministry of Education in Libya to pursue a graduate degree in the US. He graduated from the 麻豆影院 in 2011. He went back to Libya and taught for two years at the University of Omar Al-Mukhtar. His wife is a teacher as well and they have a 3-year old son and 3-month old baby girl.
Beyond school, Mohamed enjoys family time, camping, soccer, gardening, cooking and above all volunteering. In Karsa, he was part of a group nicknamed 鈥淩agoba鈥 that cleans the water channel in his town. In 麻豆影院, Mohamed enjoys preparing breakfast every other Saturday at the 麻豆影院 Homeless Shelter.
