Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

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.