Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

Prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowships offered to Cockrell School engineering students

Current graduate students who received fellowships include Jessica Allen, Patrick Doody, Rachel Gerver, Daniel Miller and Cassandra Telenko.

Allen is a first year mechanical engineering doctoral student in the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab. She is currently studying the compensatory mechanisms used by post-stroke hemiparetic patients and how they change over the course of rehabilitation. By analyzing experimental data from clinical trials and computer simulations of hemiparetic gait, she hopes to advance the development of individualized rehabilitation programs.
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Doody is a second-year master’s degree student in the energy systems area of electrical engineering. His research focuses on defining a set of metrics to quantify the degree of inter- and intra-hour wind power variability and intermittency. Such metrics are expected to help grid planners and operators integrate and manage large wind power plants.
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Four university graduates received the fellowships to attend universities across the nation to pursue graduate degrees.
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Five university alumni already pursuing graduate degrees around the United States also received the fellowships.

Kyle Osberg a doctoral student in materials science and engineering at Northwestern University is researching the development of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials for applications in electronics and chemical and biological detection.

Edwina Lai a doctoral student in chemical engineering at Stanford University, will focus on using collagen as a tissue scaffold to directionally guide the growth of cells. This research will have potential applications in tissue regeneration.