NSF fellowships awarded to students for graduate study

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Nine Rice undergraduates, six graduate students and nine alumni have received graduate research fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF). These fellowships are for graduate study leading to research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the fields of science and engineering relevant to the mission of the NSF. Students are awarded these fellowships in the early stage of their graduate study. Recipients of the fellowships, their fields of study and their graduate schools are:

Undergraduate Students

• Andres Goza, mechanical engineering, Stanford.
• Rachel Jackson, mechanical engineering, Stanford.
• Mitchell Koch, artificial intelligence, Carnegie Mellon.
• Kathleen Li, probability and statistics, Berkeley.
• Laura Tanenbaum, bioengineering, MIT.
• Citlali Tapia, civil engineering, Rice.
• Catharine Thompson, bioengineering, Berkeley.
• Kelsey Yule, population/community ecology, Indiana.
• Michael Zakrajsek, physics and astronomy, University of Chicago.

Graduate Students

• Lukas Bell-Dereske, ecology.
• Aigerim Kabdiyeva, economics.
• Marcel LaFlamme, cultural anthropology.
• Emily McCarthy, civil engineering.
• Maria Meza-Lopez, ecology.
• Cynthia Wood, applied math.

Alumni

• Zigfried Hampel-Arias ’09, particle physics, Wisconsin-Madison.
• Elyse Aurbach ’08, neuroscience, Michigan.
• Timothy Burke ’08, solid state physics, Berkeley.
• Jeremy Caves ’09, paleoclimate, University of Chicago.
• Frank Chen ’10, electrical engineering, Stanford.
• Shaiyan Keshvari ’10, perception and psychophysics, UCSD.
• Stacy Skaalure ’09, chemical engineering, Colorado-Boulder.
• Taylor Stevenson ’10, biomedical engineering, Cornell.
• Amber Williams ’10, developmental psychology, Michigan.