UAB Students Win National Science Foundation Research Fellowships:
Two doctoral candidates at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have received the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Award for 2007.
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His love for musical performance inspired Christophe to pursue music both professionally and academically. Jackson is a concert pianist and he plans to enroll in the UAB Master’s/Ph.D program in Vocal Science. Christophe is currently a graduate student at UAB studying biology and music. His research focuses on physiology and otolaryngology and their role in the vocal endurance of trained and untrained singers.
In her [Johnnie Waid] spare time, she has managed to earn a BS and an MA in Civil Engineering, a certificate in Construction Management (all from UAB), presented or co-presented at six state and national transportation meetings and it the author or co-author of four technical reports and papers.
In addition to being awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Award for 2007, Johnnie has been recognized by a number of honor societies including Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Phi, and Phi Theta Kappa. Johnnie’s interests are in topics related to homeland security. She hopes to one day pursue a career in higher education.
Read Johnnie’s master’s thesis: “Alternate Financing Sources for Alabama Highways“.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program announcement is now available. The application will open in early August, but if you are interested you can read up on the details of the program now. Synopsis:
The National Science Foundation aims to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States and to reinforce its diversity by offering approximately 1,100 graduate fellowships in this competition. 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 in the early stages of their graduate study. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 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.
5 U.Va. Graduate Students Earn Coveted NSF Fellowships:
Jennie Doberne, Anthropology, Advisor: Susan McKinnon
“My research focuses on older women’s quest for motherhood as a way to investigate the social and technological limits of pronatalism in Israel. By extending technological and medical resources, the national pronatalist effort is eroding previous biological constraints on maternity and enabling older women to become mothers. This project seeks to account for aging within the cultural complexities of the medical and social production of motherhood in Israel.”
Niccolo Fiorentino, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Advisor: Silvia Blemker
“I work with Dr. Silvia Blemker in the Multi-scale Muscle Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. My research project focuses on characterizing the way muscles change shape during motion, determining how muscles generate force to produce joint movement, and developing methods to model complex muscle behavior. I utilize non-invasive imaging techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study muscle contraction during dynamic joint movement and construct anatomically accurate musculoskeletal models. I am applying these techniques to understanding and improving the treatments for muscle impairments associated with movement disorders such as cerebral palsy.”
Erin Reed, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Advisor: Jim McDaniel
“My research involves using a non-intrusive measurement method called Planar Laser Induced Iodine Fluorescence which involves seeding iodine molecules into a flow and shining a laser sheet across it, causing it to fluoresce or shine allowing us to obtain visuals of the flow as well as velocity and mole fraction measurements. This method will be applied to a model in hypersonic flow to investigate flow characteristics in a mixed rarefied continuum regime for use in the simulation of a space vehicle entering Mars or Earth atmosphere.”
Read more, including on the two other UVA GRFP fellows: Hillary Schaefer and Adam Watson
Flip Tomato posted to his blog that it is time to start grad school/fellowship applications. He provides quite a range of advice on what to get started on such as meeting with faculty advisers, arranging for letters of recommendation, talking to current graduate students…
Yes, it’s summer and you’re probably working hard in labs on your senior thesis. But rest assured every hour you spend now organising your applications and writing personal statements will make your life much easier fall semester.
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Now this is what I really wanted to get to. If you haven’t already, you should start writing personal statements right now. Unless you’re secretly a writer (… or perhaps a blogger?), you probably cannot write your best statement in a week. What you should be concerned about is sending out sub-par personal statements to the schools with earlier due dates. Spend a time “thinking deeply” about how to present yourself. Your statement should contain a little bit of personal information, a lot about how you’ve demonstrated research potential, and a bit that’s specific to each school/fellowship.
For more ideas see links to advice on applying for science and engineering fellowship on my personal blog. And don’t forget our listing of science and engineering fellowships and scholarships.
Amanda Williams is a third-year graduate student in information and computer sciences. In 2005, she was the recipient of a the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship that funded her travel to Thailand to investigate ubiquitous computing.
A Study in Ubiquitous Computing Technology
My study focused on concepts of distributed “home,” collaboration between family members across continents and within a city, and how ordinary people use technology to achieve personal and cultural values. Besides interviewing my subjects, I visited their homes, staying overnight or for several days when possible, and occasionally traveled with them. Interviews and home visits took place in and around Seattle, St. Louis, rural Illinois and New York in the United States, and Bangkok and Chantaburi in Thailand.
Related: metamanda blog (Amanda Williams’ blog) - UCI Grad Student Receives Prestigious NSF Research Fellowship
We have added to our science and engineering fellowship and scholarship directory - now listing over 25 fellowships including the: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation Defense Scholarship for Service Program (SMART), Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, NASA Graduate Student Researchers Program and NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program.
Honors College Student Named NSF Graduate Research Fellow
The fellowship is the most prestigious award of Elsohly’s undergraduate career at Ole Miss, said Gregory Tschumper, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. “The National Science Foundation not only recognizes the outstanding quality and quantity of research that Adel has already completed, but it also recognizes his potential for a highly productive scientific career,” Tschumper said. “It is a tremendous honor for Adel and for the university.”
Besides Young and Tschumper, Elsohly credited Keith Hollis, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; Christopher McCurdy, assistant professor of medicinal chemistry; and William Staton, professor of mathematics; for their time and effort in making his application successful. Elsohly received a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship in March 2006. He has won awards for his research at regional and national levels and is the first author of two published articles, including one in the highly regarded Journal of the American Chemical Society. Recently Elsohly was also a finalist for a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
President of the university’s Muslim Student Association and an avid rock climber, he is the son of Mahmoud and Hala Elsohly of Oxford.
Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) Students Awarded SMART Scholarship:
Vandeventer and Warner, the first KGI students to apply for the scholarship, were among 100 winners chosen from a pool of 1,600 applicants by the DoD. Each SMART scholar receives a stipend of up to $38,000, full tuition reimbursement and a book allowance of $1,000. Following graduation, scholars are required to work for the Defense Dept. for a period of time equal to the length of their scholarship support.
“This is a proud day for KGI,” said Sheldon Schuster, Ph.D., KGI’s president. “To have not one but two first-time recipients of this highly competitive honor in the same year is a tremendous testament to the quality of our students and their instruction. Peter and Chris exemplify the kind of scholars we have at KGI, faculty and students dedicated to producing applied research for the benefit of society.”
After completing KGI’s Master of Bioscience program in December, Vandeventer will pursue his Ph.D. in Applied Life Sciences. He is interested in helping to develop a handheld pathogen detection device which will involve the preparation of biological samples for DNA detection.
Warner, a second-year MBS student who plans to enroll in the Ph.D. program following graduation next spring, will research methods to mass produce antibodies for the treatment of infectious disease epidemics resulting from bioterrorism.
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