Senior awarded National Science Foundation fellowship
Virginia Tech senior and honors student Brian Skinner, of St. Anthony, Idaho, has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Skinner, who is double majoring in physics and mechanical engineering, will use the $90,000 award to research complex systems and emergent behavior in theoretical physics at the University of Minnesota this fall.
Skinner is one of only 1,000 students nationwide to receive NSF graduate research funding this year, and one of only 46 physics majors nationally to receive the award. Skinner plans to pursue a doctoral degree in hopes of obtaining an academic position as a professor at a research university where he can pursue research and teach physics.
OSU graduate receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Elizabeth Casey, a biosystems engineering major, recently was named the recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree in December 2006 and currently is attending Purdue University where she is pursuing a master’s degree in agricultural and biological engineering.
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The Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are at the early stages of their graduate study. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program invests in graduate education for a cadre of diverse individuals who demonstrate their potential to successfully complete graduate degree programs in disciplines relevant to the mission of the National Science Foundation.
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