Ranjita Ghose, a graduate student advised by professor Arvind Varma, received a John Jink Company Graduate Fellowship. This competitive fellowship is for combustion related research – she is one of 3 recipients from Purdue. The sum is $5,000, to be used for expendable supplies. Ranjita works on Oxidative Coupling of Methane to Ethylene and uses "Solution Combustion" to synthesize catalysts.

John Zink Company: Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, John Zink is home to one of the combustion industry’s largest research and development test centers. John Zink’s emissions-control and clean-air systems function in the world’s most demanding industries—from hydrocarbon and chemical processing, to biofuels, automobile manufacturing, food processing, pulp and paper, waste management, and more. Combining practical problem solving with creative innovation, John Zink Company legacy works towards developing a generation of clean products that address the challenges of their clients and an environmentally conscious world.

Graduate Fellowship Fund: The John Zink Company Graduate Fellowship Fund is supported by the John Zink Company on an annual basis. The fund has been designed to support full-time regularly enrolled Purdue graduate students from the College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Science and College of Technology who would like to be or are currently involved in combustion research. The fund provides opportunities for three students each year to work with faculty in combustion research.