Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

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.