Science and Engineering Scholarships and Fellowships Blog

photo of Tom Morrell, Hamilton College senior

Phillip Milner ’10 and Tom Morrell ’10, of were awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Two Hamilton seniors, Phillip Milner and Tom Morrell (photo), have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Milner is a chemistry/math double major who will be starting a Ph.D. program in chemistry in the fall, at an institution yet to be determined. Morrell is a chemistry major who will begin a Ph.D. program in chemistry at Princeton in the fall.

Two recent Hamilton graduates, Louisa Brown ’09 and Leanne Pasquini ’07, also received the prestigious fellowships. Brown is in her first year in the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Cornell, and Pasquini is at Yale in the first year of an environmental engineering Ph.D. program. Gregory Hartt ’08, Marco Allodi ’08 and Kristen Alongi ’08 received honorable mention.

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad.
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Ian Rosenstein, associate professor of chemistry, commented “This is a highly prestigious award and Phill and Tom are the first Hamilton students that I know of in recent years to be awarded one while still a college senior.”

Phillip Milner was a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year. The Goldwater is the premier national undergraduate award in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. He was also the recipient of a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program (STEP) /Dreyfus Grant prior to his freshman year at Hamilton, which enabled him to conduct summer research with a Hamilton science faculty member.

Tom Morrell recently published an article, “Atmospheric Implications for Formation of Clusters of Ammonium and 1−10 Water Molecules,” in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A. His co-author was George Shields, former Hamilton College chemistry professor and currently dean of the College of Science & Technology at Armstrong Atlantic State University. Morrell was also the recipient of a STEP/Dreyfus grant.

NSF Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.

Related: Three Iowa State Students Honored with NSF GRFP Awards – 2009 NSF GRFP Fellow: Sarah Latshaw – 2008 NSF Fellow: Ekaterina Hristova Spriggs

Notifications have recently been sent out for numerous scholarships and fellowships supported by the American Society for Engineering Education. Please visit the respected programs’ individual websites for more information.

The NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program, which invests in the educational development of the aeronautics workforce by providing opportunities to attract undergraduate and graduate students to the aeronautics and related fields, sent out notifications late last week.

The Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship, which also let applicants know their status late last week, is a scholarship for service program which gives awardees a fully scholarship for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Notifications of awardees were sent out early this week for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. This fellowship supports graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

Congratulations to all applicants and awardees for all your hard work!