Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

Two graduating seniors taking $100K-plus fellowships to MIT

Among other research projects, Palmer traveled to Armenia, where he had previously served a two-year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to research economic benefits of higher education there. Funding for the field study and preparatory research came from a grant from BYU’s Office of Research and Creative Activities.

After returning, he continued his research and made it the focus of his honors senior thesis. “My research work is so indicative of the complete BYU experience,” Palmer said. “It ties together my mission, interacting with international governmental representatives on campus, mentoring from the economics faculty, and help from the Honors Department to get my applications together for funding.”
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Across campus in a laboratory in the engineering building, Landon’s undergraduate experience involved considerable hands-on work studying how to make materials stronger and last longer. He eventually was the lead author on a paper published in an academic journal and a co-author on several others. In addition to the NSF Fellowship, Landon won the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, which is worth approximately $200,000 (although he’s only allowed to use one at a time).
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Three recent BYU graduates were also named 2008 NSF Fellows and are already in graduate school:

Marian Adamson is studying bioengineering at the University of Michigan. Brigham Frandsen will welcome Palmer into the economics program at MIT. Adam Washburn is studying analytical chemistry at the University of Illinois.