Gustavus Alumna Receives Prestigious Fellowship
Gustavus alumna Kelly Younge was recently awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. Younge graduated from Gustavus in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in physics, and is currently in the doctoral program in physics at the University of Michigan.
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research chose Younge among 200 recipients for the NDSEG Fellowship out of more than 3,400 applicants.
During her time at Gustavus, Younge was involved in the Society of Physics Students and Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. She worked closely with Professor of Physics, Paul Saulnier and together they authored a paper titled “A Model System for Examining the Radial Distribution Function,” which was published in the American Journal of Physics in 2004.
Graduate students earn National Science Foundation fellowships:
Graduate students from life sciences, anthropology and mechanical engineering at ASU are among the select applicants chosen nationwide to receive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research fellowships.
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Evans’ fellowship pursuits will actually take her back in time. As a graduate student in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change (SHESC), in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Evans has a background in civil engineering, and her fellowship research “Geotechnical Analysis of Identity” incorporates anthropological, archaeological and soil engineering methods; data about human remains (bioarchaeology) and burial goods; and information about styles of construction of earthworks and ceremonial centers. Her fellowship will allow her to investigate the alliance-making strategies among prehistoric peoples.
First ARRL Foundation Goldfarb Scholarship Recipient Wins Research Fellowship:
A geology and environmental studies major, Schupack, 22, plans to attend the University of Colorado — Boulder in the fall, where he will be working within the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR). His research will focus on the interaction between volcanic eruptions and Arctic climate variability, and he expects to undertake ice-core and lake-core field work in Iceland and Greenland.
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“As an undergraduate researcher, he’s presented at four professional meetings, three of which were national, and they’ve been on four different subjects,” Carson said. In addition to his scholarly endeavors, Schupack is lead trombonist in Whitman’s jazz band, and he’s a member of the school’s award-winning cycling team.
Last year Schupack took part in a semester abroad program in tropical marine ecology with the School for Field Studies in the Turks & Caicos Islands. Schupack and research colleague Elizabeth Stoner of Skidmore College analyzed the impact of fish-processing plant effluents on the surrounding waters and mangrove forests. As a result of their research, the processing plant owner’s decided to use an ultra-violet filter to eliminate dumping of bleach into the ocean.
Nine Dartmouth alumni given NSF Graduate Fellowships:
Joseph Brown ‘00 is in year one of four of a Ph.D. program in mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. His focus lies in nanoscale materials processing. After obtaining an AB from Dartmouth in engineering sciences, Brown worked for several start-up businesses, doing work that was incorporated into several full patent filings. Brown said Dartmouth’s interdisciplinary approach to engineering education helped him to find his interests, as did the influence of his undergraduate advisor, Thayer School of Engineering Associate Professor Ursula Gibson.
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Sara Thiebaud ‘06 is in year one of five of a Ph.D. program in systems biology at Harvard University. Her research looks at how human cells repair DNA damage, using time-lapse fluorescence microscopy to look at the dynamics of different repair proteins in live cells in an effort to understand how the DNA repair method is influenced by the growth, replication, and division of the cell. Her group hopes to use this and other projects to gain insight into the regulation of human cancers. Thiebaud said her undergraduate thesis advisor, Professor of Biological Sciences Mary Lou Guerinot, gave her significant support and research experience during her Dartmouth years and also advised her during the graduate school and fellowship application processes.
Lynn earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship award:
Elon senior Geoffrey Lynn has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award to continue his research at the graduate school level. He is the first Elon student to earn this prestigious fellowship.
Lynn worked closely with faculty mentor Joel Karty, assistant professor of chemistry, to develop his original research proposal for the fellowship. Lynn, at left in the photo with Karty, will use the fellowship to explore a revolutionary method for constructing chemical probes that can be used to recognize specific cancer cells and measure the expression of proteins on the cells’ surface. The research could have far-reaching impacts on medical applications and techniques used for basic research.
WVU Student Receives Graduate Research Fellowship:
Tirzah Mills, who will graduate from West Virginia University’s Department of Chemical Engineering in May, recently received a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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This summer, Mills will be working for OpX, a start-up biotech company in Colorado that she also worked for last summer. She will start her Ph.D. this fall at University of Colorado at Boulder, in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Eventually, she plans to become a college or university professor.
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“In my experience, girls are often turned off to science, engineering and math from an early age. Some find it boring, difficult, or don’t see the value of it,” Mills said. “I would hope that serving as a SWE advisor would help females majoring in engineering find the support they need to stick with it. In addition, I want to help organize outreach events for girls still in K-12 that would help pique their interest in engineering.”
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