Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

Women Recipients of National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship at Virginia Tech:

1966 Laraine M. Unbehaun, Ph.D., Plant Pathology, 1969 - In 1966 Unbehaun became the first female graduate student at Virginia Tech to be awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship… That same year she accepted a professorship in biology and microbiology at the University of Wisconsin, where she worked for 30 years. Unbehaun coordinated the NSF-sponsored “Women and Science Program” at the UW-LaCrosse campus from 1986 to 1999.
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1992 Susan Cox-Stouffer Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, 1997 - While a senior aerospace engineering student at Virginia Tech, Cox was one of 20 students nationwide chosen by USA Today for the 1992 All-USA Academic First Team. The key element considered was outstanding original academic or intellectual production by the student. She was also a finalist for a Rhodes Scholarship and worked at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility as a co-op student for several years before graduation.
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2004 Juliette Mammei - Juliette, along with her husband Russell, were the only two nuclear physics students selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowships in 2003. They are working on a new model of elementary particle physics.