Ohio State AIChE

September Student Spotlight – Antara Rath

Congratulations to our first Student Spotlight of the Autumn 2020 semester, Antara Rath! Antara is a senior Chem E planning to graduate in December 2021. Around campus she is involved in SWE and AIChE, serving as an outstanding mentor in each organization’s respective mentorship program. With SWE, Antara is involved in their Big/Little and High School PenPal programs, and with AIChE, she is a part of the Mentorship and Regional Conference Committees. She has also conducted research in Dr. Palmer’s Artificial Blood Research Lab since freshman year, where she is creating a circuit to study the oxygenation and deoxygenation of hemoglobin regarding physiological conditions. In her free time, Antara plays the violin in an orchestra at OSU, plays tennis on the Buckeye Club Tennis team, and enjoys doing Indian classical dance.

As part of the Ohio State Honors and Scholars Program, Antara is an Eminence Fellow, an honor awarded to individuals and groups who devote themselves to tackling academic and societal challenges. Outside of school, Antara is a co-founder of the nonprofit organization SmileChild, which aims to tackle infant mortality in the Columbus area. She has also completed a co-op in Boston last fall with Bristol-Meyers Squibb, a biopharmaceutical company where she studied freezing and thawing cycles of large-scale drug substance containers to ship to drug product facilities around the world and ensure drug stability. In the future, Antara plans to use her degree in the biopharmaceutical industry to work on novel therapeutics that can target different types of cancers in the body. Congratulations again, Antara, and keep up the great work!