Nepali Student Organization-University of Kentucky

The NSO team was able to table at the Global Games Event yesterday. Thank you everyone for coming out and helping to promote our organization and country.

Happy Tihar from NSO team! We hope this festival brought warmth, prosperity, and happiness to every of you.

It brings me immeasurable joy to extend my sincerest gratitude to each and every one of you for taking the time to be with us, making our welcome and Teej program not just an event, but a memorable experience for all involved.
The power of community, camaraderie, and shared moments is truly special. By gracing us with your presence, sharing your energy, stories, and laughter, you've contributed in weaving the fabric of what we've come to cherish as a treasured memory. ❤️
As we step into the new semester, I wish everyone a journey filled with learning, growth, and continued success. May this period be one where we not only pursue academic excellence but also nurture relationships, experiences, and memories that will last a lifetime.
Best of luck to everyone for the upcoming semester. Here's to new beginnings, fresh challenges, and brighter horizons! ❤️❤️🎉
Happy Teej and welcome to NSO!!

We are extremely saddened to hear this unfortunate news. Thinking of our beloved member Thakur Bhatta and family during this difficult time. May you guys find comfort in the memories you have with her.

Wow. What an evening. We congratulated our graduates. Said farewells to the members leaving Lexington. Welcomed the new NSO officers. And if it wasn’t just the most significant celebration of the NSO so far, we even had so many graduates’ parents with us. To top it all off, to say the food, music, poems, and speeches were all top-notch is an understatement (videos uploaded on the next posts). Our paths will cross again, one way or the other. It’s a bittersweet goodbye, but we’re not going to cry.

And come hell or high water, the NSO will always be here to cheer for you through it all.

The NSO would like to extend its congratulations to our incredibly hardworking graduates. We’re so proud of what you have accomplished, and can’t wait to celebrate with you soon. Most of our graduates have also served as the NSO officers during their tenure at the university, and the NSO would like to thank them for their excellent service and leadership. Whether you are pursuing your future career in Lexington or moving half way across the world, the Nepali Student Organization at the University of Kentucky will always be here to welcome you home.

Students graduating this year:
Sweta Ojha, PhD, Civil Engineering
Ashok Timsina, PhD, Physics
Priya Karna, PhD, Chemistry
Binu Bashyal, DNP, Family Nurse Practitioner track
Ashutosh Timilsina, PhD, Computer Science
Yogesh Gautam, MS, Civil Engineering
Bobby Thapa, MS, Forestry and Natural Resource Science
Mandip Lamichhane, BS, Economics
Aastha Bhatta, BS, Computer Science

The NSO would like to congratulate Bobby Thapa for winning the Forest and Natural Resource Sciences Graduate Award of Excellence this year! The award includes a personalized plaque and monetary prize. His contributions in the field of Forestry and Natural Resources will surely leave an impact in the department for years to come. We wish him all the very best for all his future endeavors. 🌳

NSO would like to congratulate our members Ashmita Thapa and Bibek Lamichhane for presenting their work at Center for Clinical and Translational Sscience Conference 2023.

Ashmita, a PhD student in College of Nursing here at UK, delivered a podium presentation on "Mediating Role of Functional Status in the Association of Depressive Symptoms with Quality of Life in Heart Failure" and also won outstanding podium presentation award.

Bibek is an M.S student in Veterinary Science at University of Kentucky and presented his work on "Development of Novel Therapeutics for Controlling Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium Infections".

Keep up the good work guys!!

Our NSO team is back in action in Intramural Sports with a 3-2 win in Men's 7v7 Soccer Tournament. Keep it up guys!!

The NSO at the UK wishes everyone a very Happy Holi 2023. May your life be filled with vibrant colors, always. 🎨

NSO community is proud to have our social media coordinator and PhD candidate in Chemistry, Priya Karna's artwork and editorial to be featured in the prestigious The Journals of Physical Chemistry Letters as a part of ACS Diversity and Inclusion Cover Art Series. Her cover art titled "Women in Science: From Country to Chemistry" portrays a country girl doing daily chores on the farm who dreams of becoming a scientist one day. She writes,"Through my artwork, I want to show that any little girl can become a scientist if she dreams big and works hard. One day she, too, can make a difference as an individual and in a community, a nation, and the world as a whole." Coming from a small farm town in Nepal, Priya is currently pursuing her PhD in Physical Chemistry with focus on chemical catalysis here at University of Kentucky. Link to the artwork and editorial - https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpclcd/current?fbclid=IwAR258AESJJDxEkw5yQun9KBEqZbkvak8TK3DFen3s6OHgIoBz7hdTOnPnPI

**The event has been rescheduled to start at 2:30 PM onwards.**
Holi is back at the NSO House! The NSO would like to invite everyone to play Holi this Sunday, March 5 @ 2:30 PM @ the basketball court in Greg Page. The NSO will provide color and limited snacks, but feel free to bring any snacks if you like (soda, chips, other finger foods). We hope to see everyone there, especially because this is the first NSO event of the year! 🎨 🎊

Our boys are back! Congratulations to our NSO team who reached semifinals in intramural Futsal tournament. With academics and sports, we’ve got best of the both worlds. Keep up the good work and make us proud!

Congratulations to our member, Dr. Sanjay Joshi for presenting his research work titled "Regulatory Mechanisms of the LBD40 Transcription Factor in Arabidopsis Embryogenesis” at the Plant and Animal Genome PAG30 Annual Conference in San Diego. We wish you all the very best in your research endeavors. Keep making our community proud with your impressive research!

And just like that, 5 and a half years come to an end. What an incredible journey it’s been for our men. Our organization is forever indebted to you for your dedication and service to our community. Many, many congratulations, Doctors. We’re so proud of you. Do amazing things with your life, one step at a time. We will always be behind you cheering for your success until the end and beyond. Here’s to Drs. Ankit Pandeya, Surya Aryal, and Khaga Raj Neupane from the University of Kentucky - Department of Chemistry.
Forever wave that blue and white!
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Our UK-NSO President, Ashutosh Timilsina presented his talk titled “Prospect Theory-inspired Automated P2P Energy Trading with Q-learning-based Dynamic Pricing” at the IEEE GlOBECOM Conference 2022 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Probably one of the few times that one of our members has given a talk at an international conference in the last few years, so we’re proud of him! Congratulations, and way to go!

Shoutout to our alumni, Dr. Sweta Ojha for being featured in our university's news article (UKNow) about her research that deals with developing a screening model for per- and polyfluorinated alky substances (PFAS). In the long run, this study aims to lower the health risks caused by water contamination in our community.



https://uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-researchers-community-partners-tackle-health-threats-forever-chemicals?fbclid=IwAR0n9_EFc909aeaqLQ21g0lTVKt0E0ElR4SzJ6TGJFpHea3pmiECPYev48I

UK researchers, community partners tackle health threats from 'forever chemicals' UK Superfund Research Center researchers are working collaboratively with community partners to protect Kentuckians from environmental exposures to PFAS.

Our very own Dr. Prakash Raj Pandeya wrote an open letter to Sagar Dhakal, a young independent candidate who ran against Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in recent parliamentary election from Dadeldhura. Sagar came out second to Deuba and challenged the longstanding norm of elderly dominating the political scene in Nepal. A native of Dadeldhura – Dr. Pandeya commends the vision and efforts of young politician-in-the-making to go head on against an established head of the state and still garner a significant amount of votes with minimal resources and experience. Read his full letter in the link below

सागर ढकाललाई डडेल्धुराका युवाको खुला पत्र - खबरदारी न्युज डडेल्धुरा ः प्रिय नेपाली दाजुभाइ तथा दिदिबहिनीहरु म एकजना डडेल्धुराबासी युवा, अहिले बिदेशमा छु । सर्वप्रथम म सम्...

Our most amazing undergraduates showcased Nepal and our culture at the International day @ UK last night! They put on one heck of a musical performance and modeled in the traditional attire with the national flag. Thank you for representing our country and culture on campus, and increasing the diversity motto that our organization stands for. Keep it up!

Congratulations to our vice-president Raj Neupane for successfully defending his PhD today. His PhD dissertation is titled "Cell-Engineered Nanovesicles for Therapeutic Delivery and Immunomodulatory Applications". Simply put, his remarkable work deals with developing cell-based nano medicine for cancer immunotherapy. We are grateful of your contribution to our community over the years and wish you the very best for your future endeavors, Dr. Neupane!

Congratulations, Surya Aryal, PhD! Surya defended his PhD today with a spectacular talk titled “Development of Fluorescent Based Approaches to Understand Astrocyte Biology in the Context of Ni****ne and Nicotinic Receptor Activity.” We are certain that he will make a significant contribution in the field of science, and wish him all the very best for all his future endeavors. Way to go, Dr. Aryal!

And finally, some pictures from our Tihar event. We had a lot of fun eating sel roti, dancing, decorating, and singing Deusi-Bhailo. Thank you everyone who helped out with everything. It was only a success because of you!
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Join us on the occasion of Tihar for Deusi-Bhailo celebration. We'll have traditional snacks (selroti and achar), dance, songs, and musical instrument performances. Traditional attire encouraged!