NSF Fellowships Abound!

Congratulations to Chemistry's six NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award recipients! These include Klaire Bradley (Becker Lab), Olivia Dube (Therien Lab), Emily Matas (Therien Lab), Alannah Miller (Hong Lab), Mallory Roberts (Njomen Lab) and Abigail Taylor (Becker Lab).  The NSF-GRFP is a highly competitive program that supports over 100 subfields. This year's approximately 2400 fellowship winners were selected from a field of over 14,000 applications! Selections are based on intellectual merit and broader impacts, including the fellow's potential to contribute to scientific innovation.   

Receiving Honorable Mentions for their applications were Emily Bird (Craig Lab), Alexandra Gendreau (Alfonzo Lab), Camille Green (Franz Lab), Cora Lubahn (Becker Lab) and Andrew Watts (Alfonzo Lab). 

Additionally, we are excited to congratulate senior Duke undergraduate Bashir Sbaiti (Beratan Lab) as well as recent graduates Grace Hall (Duke Nicholas School of the Environment), Amy Chou, and Abigail Strausbaugh Hjelmstad (both currently enrolled at MIT), and incoming graduate student Tyson Vu. All four also received GRFPs! Senior Dolce Feenaghty (Hong Lab) received a Honorable Mention as did recent graduates Sigrid Real-Aguilar (Emory) and Lauren Sar (Yale). 

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is one of the nation's most prestigious fellowship programs, providing three years of financial support, over five years, to graduate students who have demonstrated potential for significant achievements in research. Congratulations to all of the Duke recipients! 

To see the full list of awardees, visit the NSF site of recipients.