The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in the relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees.

This year NSF awarded 913 fellowships: which come with a stipend of $30,000 and $10,500 cost of education allowance. On our Science and Engineering Fellowship blog we are highlighting awardees including: Julia Kamenetzky (in photo), physics major at Cornell College; Andrej Lenert, mechanical engineering major at the University of Iowa; Jennifer Robinson, computer science major at North Carolina State; Jeremy Freeman, neuroscience major at Swarthmore; and Mariela Zeledón, biological sciences major at Carnegie Mellon University.

Fellows from previous years include: Sergey Brin, Burton Richter, Steven Levitt and Frank Wilczek.

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