April 2010
Many Bioengineering students and alumni have been awarded fellowships or honorable mentions through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
This year the BioE program made a concerted effort to assist first-year students in applying for fellowships, through an assignment in the introductory graduate course, BioE 301. With special thanks to instructor Terry Johnson and GSI Frankie Meyers, the effort paid off with a whopping TEN first-year graduate students receiving fellowships.
Several more NSF were awarded to incoming BioE graduate students, and BioE undergraduate alumni. We’d like to congratulate all those awardees and honorable mentions. Fantastic work!
The National Science Foundation offers approximately 1,000 graduate fellowships annually in this competition. The Graduate Research Fellowship is intended for students in the early stages of graduate study, and provides three years of support for study in research-based master’s or doctoral programs. Thousands of students compete every year.
First-Year graduate student fellowship winners are: Allen Chen, Yushan Kim, Will DeLoache, Sean McFarland, Kate Miroshnikova, Felix Moser, Mark Sena, Arunan Skandarajah, Joey Wilson and Bo Zheng.