Dr. Padalkar received a Gold Medal from University of Pune, India in 2004. Proposals and Funding include Chemical Tomography of Interfacial Layer in Fe2O3 Photoanodes for Water Splitting. Funded $27,989 by Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN). She attended Poster Session Judge at Northwestern University during 2010-2011 and also was a Chairperson of Materials Engineering Symposium, Purdue University Fall in 2008.