Curriculum vitae
Padma T. Venkatraman - Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae
padma@ureach.com
padma@ureach.com
CURRENT POSITION:
- Director of Graduate Diversity Affairs at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School Instructor, Scientific Writing, Graduate School of Oceanography, URI.
EDUCATION:
- Post-doctoral research, 2001-2002: Post-doctoral research fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA. Topic: Fate of pharmaceuticals in sewage wastes.
- Ph.D., 2001: awarded by the School of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, USA; in Marine Science. GPA = 3.96. Dissertation: Use of molecular markers to track pollutant transport and fate.
- M.S., 1994: awarded by the College of William and Mary, USA; in Marine Science. Thesis: Comparative toxicity of creosote and creosote contaminated sediments
- B.Sc., 1989: awarded by St. Joseph's College, India; triple major in Chemistry, Environmental Science and Botany at the age of 19. Graduated within the top 0. 3% of the entire undergraduate class of the Bangalore University and received a State Rank (52nd out of about 22,000 students) and a National Merit Scholarship.
- GRE, 1988: Graduate Record Examinations taken at age 18 in Bangalore, India. Scores: 690 (Verbal); 730 (Quantitative); 720 (Analytical).
CREATIVE WRITING
Work under contract
Books:
- Climbing the Stairs. Scheduled for publication in May 2008 by the Penguin Young Reader's group (Penguin-Putnam). Novel, Young Adult - Adult.
- Double Stars: The story of Caroline Herschel. Morgan Reynolds Publishing, 2007. Young Adult Biography
- Number tales from around the world. Tulika Publishers, 2007. A collection of mathematical stories for middle-grade readers.
- Growing Gold. Scheduled for publication by August House in Spring 2008. Indian folktale.
- Women in mathematics (working title, Morgan Reynolds). Young Adult Biography.
- The Cleverest Thief. August House. Scheduled for Fall 2008 release. Buddhist Folktale.
- Barbara McClintock (working title, Morgan Reynolds). Young Adult Biography.
Magazines (fiction):
- The most valuable treasure, (accepted), Highlights, USA
- Diksha's Divali, (accepted), Highlights, USA.
- How Savitri tricked the God of Death, (accepted), Cricket, USA.
- Ali's Olive Jar, (accepted), Spider, USA.
