Student/Post-doc News

2008 NSF Fellowship Grants

Four Michigan Biomedical Engineering graduate students are the recipients of the 2008 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award. The BME department would like to congratulate David Thompson, Darcee Nelson, Marian Adamson, and Adam Maxwell on their impressive achievement. These 4 outstanding winners are associated with BME core faculty members Daryl Kipke Ph.D., Susan Brooks Ph.D., Michael Mayer Ph.D., and Charles Cain Ph.D. respectively. The awards are extremely competitive, especially this year, with fewer than 4% of applicants receiving honors.

The purpose of the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and to reinforce its diversity. Each year the NSF awards approximately 1,100 Graduate Research Fellowships to outstanding individuals who are in the early stages of their graduate study. The fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based masters or doctoral degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

BME Professor Kate Barald held an NSF application workshop in October of 2007. More than 40 students from many Engineering College and Basic Science departments, including 3 of the 4 BME awardees, attended the informational workshop. This workshop will be given again in the fall of 2008. Dr. Barald is also willing to help students with their submissions, including editing their essays and research proposals. Kate Barald Ph.D. has served as a member of the NSF GRFP

Posted on April 8, 2008, 11:29 am