Graduate Analysis Fellowships from the Nationwide Science Basis (NSF) to carry out graduate analysis in science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic fields. This 12 months’s awardees embody college students throughout disciplines like physics, neuroscience, electrical engineering and the social sciences.
The awards, that are open to senior undergraduates and first- and second-year graduate college students, have been supplied since 1952 and are among the many most prestigious and aggressive fellowships open to U.S. pupil researchers — this 12 months, just one,000 awardees have been chosen nationally.
The fellowships goal to “guarantee the standard, vitality and power of the scientific and engineering workforce of america,” in keeping with the NSF. They supply three years of monetary help to college students, together with a $37,000 stipend and an extra value of schooling allowance.
Under are this 12 months’s Pitt awardees.
Undergraduate
Santiago Cane, physics and astronomy, Kenneth P. Dietrich College of Arts and Sciences
Nishka Edlabadkar (A&S ’24), chemistry, Dietrich College
Darin Fields (A&S ’24), psychology and sociology, Dietrich College
Heather Phillips, electrical engineering, Swanson College of Engineering
Graduate
Rebecca Marla Bhik-Ghanie, neuroscience, Dietrich College
Courtney Medina, psychology, Dietrich College
Katelin Rahn, biomedical engineering, Swanson College
