Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

University at Buffalo students earn top national awards

Last year, UB students or recent graduates garnered a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense and seven Fulbright fellowships, in addition to the Udall scholarship. This year, in addition to Krolikowski, UB’s other national award winners are Bradley Cheetham, UB’s third Goldwater Scholar in four years; Kelly Miller and Stacy Pustulka, who won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships; and Dale Hess, a geology student who won a Fulbright Fellowship.
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Last year’s Udall winner from UB, Kelly Miller, continues to receive accolades, this time as a winner of a 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship… Miller, a senior environmental engineering student, has been engaged since her freshman year in research and activism regarding world-wide water quality issues. She has worked to perfect a low-cost sand filter that would make cleaner drinking water in Third World countries and has given presentations for the World Water Forum. After graduation, Miller plans to work for six months with Greenpeace’s Project Hot Seat Campaign as a field organizer and will enroll in the master’s program in engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in fall 2009.

Stacy Pustulka, who graduated from UB in December 2007 with a B.S. in chemical engineering and a minor in biotechnology, is UB’s other NSF fellow… As an undergraduate, Pustulka performed research in the areas of tissue engineering and metabolic engineering. She received a Dean’s Fellowship and a James C. Meade Graduate Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, where she will begin her Ph.D. studies in chemical engineering this fall, focusing on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Recent UB graduates who join Miller and Pustulka as NSF Graduate Research Fellows are Christine Balonek, ’07, who is studying chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and Nicholas Polanto, ’00, who is studying ecology at Penn State. Balonek received honorable mention in the fellowship competition last year as a UB undergraduate.

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