15 Ph.D. Students Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships
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15 Ph.D. Students Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships
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Duke's 2020 GRFP recipients
Fifteen Duke Ph.D. students have received prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 2020.
Launched in 1952, the GRFP is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind. It supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing Ph.D. or research-based master’s degrees. Fellows receive a three-year stipend, coverage of tuition and fees, and opportunities for international research and professional development.
The Ph.D. students who received GRFP awards this year were:
Brittani Lauren Carroll, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Erika Marie Chelales, Biomedical Engineering
Marcello Thomas DeLuca, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Gavin Paul Gonzales, Biomedical Engineering
Jesse Nelson Granger, Biology
Anna Elizabeth Nordseth, Ecology
Tomer Rotstein, Biomedical Engineering
Chelsea Rae Shoben, Genetics and Genomics
Timothy Curtis Shoyer, Biomedical Engineering
Kavinayan Sivakumar, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Adriana Stohn, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jonathan Su, Biomedical Engineering
Becky Tang, Statistical Science
Khanh Vien, Biology
Rachael Nadine Wright, Cognitive Neuroscience
Eighteen other Duke Ph.D. students also were honorable mentions:
Rebecca Williams Cook, Evolutionary Anthropology
Sophia DeLuca, Developmental and Stem Cell Biology
Raphael Markus Geddert, Cognitive Neuroscience
Laura Ann Givens, Marine Science and Conservation
Stephanie Gu, Biochemistry
Richard Lee Hollenbach III, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
The award from the Ecological Society of America will support Jonathan Behrens' research on urbanization and chemical pollutant release impact on the function of freshwater ecosystems.
The CGC is an international association whose members provide professional development in written, oral, and multimodal communication to graduate and professional students.
The award will support evolutionary anthropology student Rebecca Cook's research on the shape and function of the pelvis, particularly as it relates to gait.