Students receive federally funded fellowships

George R. Brown School of Engineering students and alumni have won federally funded fellowships for graduate study.

Selected to receive 2009 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awards are:

Eva Dyer, Rice graduate student, electrical and computer engineering
Jenny Saik, Rice graduate student, bioengineering
Troy Ruths, Rice graduate student, computer science
Emily Fortuna, ’09, computer science, to study at Stanford University
Robert Horch ’04, bioengineering, studying at Vanderbilt University
Neha Kamat ’08 bioengineering, studying at University of Pennsylvania
Gregory Malecha ’08, computer science, studying at Harvard University
Scott Steger ’08, electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology
Katherine Zodrow ’07, civil engineering, undecided

Each will receive a $30,000 stipend, a $10,000 cost-of-education allowance and a one-time allowance of $1,000 for travel. Fellowships are funded for a maximum of three years over a five-year period. The NSF graduate fellowship program is highly competitive and recipients are considered among the best graduate students in the country.

In addition to the NSF graduate fellowship, Ruths was awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Fellowship, which is among the most preeminent fellowships for computational science students. The award includes a yearly stipend of $32,400, as well as $1,000 in an allowance for other expenses and activities. The fellowship can be renewed annually for three additional years after the first year.