Congratulations to Obinna Nwokonkow, who was selected as a 2023 NEWT Fellow in recognition of his service on the NEWT Students and Postdocs Leadership Council (SPLC) as the Professional Development Chair. Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (or NEWT for short) is an NSF-funded interdisciplinary, multi-institution nanosystems-engineering research center headquartered at Rice University.NEWT Fellows are graduate students and postdocs who have contributed to the center above and beyond their research by organizing and participating in outreach activities, serving in the SPLC, and mentoring undergraduate or summer students, amongst other initiatives. Obi is a doctoral student in Chemical Engineering at Arizona State University and Project 4 trainee,