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A young mother of two who died before completing her postgraduate studies at UWA has been honoured in a ceremony in the Vice-Chancellery.

Kartiki Nishant Gujarati-Wani was part-way through a Master of Business when she and her husband Nishant Gujarati travelled to their homeland of India for a wedding about a year ago.

"Kartiki met with a tragic accident the day we arrived, and died," said Nishant, a senior project manager in the construction industry.

Their twin sons Raghav and Rachit were just one year old.

An engineer with a Master of Science, Kartiki had migrated to Australia with her husband in 2008 and was working in Perth as a research scientist in the field of nanoparticle technology. She was studying part-time in the Business School.

Although she didn't finish the Masters, Kartiki had completed the requirements for a Graduate Certificate in Business and her family asked if the University would confer that award on her posthumously.

"I felt honoured accepting the certificate from the Vice-Chancellor on Kartiki's behalf," Nishant said. "It was wonderful to have the Vice-Chancellor, the Dean of the Business School and a couple of Kartiki's professors all there to honour her.

"The boys will grow up very proud of their mother."

The University has bestowed five posthumous awards over the past decade.

Published in UWA News , 23 July 2012