National Science Foundation honors six MSU scholars
Contact: Leah Barbour
Photo by: Russ Houston
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Six Mississippi State students are being recognized by the National Science Foundation's 2015 Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Four at the university recently were named Graduate Research Fellowship recipients and will receive three years of funding at $34,000 annually. Each also is provided with a $12,000 cost-of-education allowance during the five-year fellowship period. Additionally, two designated Honorable Mentions are not receiving financial support but will be eligible to be funded if a Fellow declines the honor.
"These students have attained one of the highest honors for graduate students in the United States. Congratulations to these graduates and to their home departments--aerospace engineering, agricultural and biological engineering, anthropology and Middle Eastern cultures, biochemistry and chemistry," said Lori Mann Bruce, associate vice president and dean of the MSU Graduate School.
The MSU group of GRFP recipients includes (by hometown):
D'IBERVILLE--Tiffany M. Heaster, a 2014 summa cum laude biological engineering/biomedical engineering graduate now pursuing a graduate degree at Vanderbilt University.
GERMANTOWN, Tennessee--Danielle H. Francis, a spring 2015 summa cum laude chemistry graduate.
GERMANY--Janice L. Cunningham, an MSU graduate student in biomedical engineering who also is a 2013 magna cum laude engineering graduate.
SLIDELL, Louisiana--Timothy M. McGrath, a spring 2015 summa cum laude aerospace engineering/aeronautics graduate.
Honorable Mentions went to:
CALHOUN, Georgia--Amber M. Kay, a spring 2015 summa cum laude biochemistry/science graduate.
LINDENHURST, New York--Jonathan Belanich, a graduate student in applied anthropology. His undergraduate studies were completed at the University of Alabama.
For information about GRFP, visit www.nsfgrfp.org.
Details about MSU graduate studies are found at www.grad.msstate.edu.
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