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NSF Graduate Research Fellows

photo of Julia Kamenetzky

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.


NSF Graduate Research Fellows Profiles

On our National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program site we have added a section onprofiles of past NSF Graduate Research Fellows. We started with probably the most famous fellow, and certainly the richest: Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin.

“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.”

Sergey Brin, Co-Founder of Google, graduated from University of Maryland with high honors in mathematics and computer science in 1993 and, as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow, went on to Stanford to further study Computer Science. Early in his graduate studies, he showed interest in the Internet, specifically data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the conversion of information into HTML format.

In 1995, he began collaborating with Larry Page, another Stanford graduate student on a more efficient search engine than previously available – Google – in The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, and soon began to attract public interest.

In his short executive biography, Brin lists the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship that supported him while at Stanford among his top achievements. Like NSF, Brin understands the importance of research in innovation, and sponsors it in part through Google’s “20% time” program – all engineers at Google are encouraged to spend 20% of their work time on projects that interest them.

Read the full NSF Fellow profile of Sergey Brin.


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