Rahim Zaman has received the highly competitive Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) Graduate Research Fellowship for the 2022-2023 academic year. He received the award based on the strength of his research proposal, its relevance to NASA, and his academic achievements. The proposal titled “Design of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramics for Oxidation Resistance” seeks to use computational thermodynamics and kinetics to study the oxidation mechanisms in ultra-high temperature ceramics.