Two prior VINSE REU students were awarded prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 allowance for tuition and fees for a research-based master’s or doctoral degree in in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. Annually, the NSF awards approximately 2,000 fellowships from an applicant pool of over 13,000.
The recipients are:
Ellis Thompson – Vassar College, now a graduate student in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Washington (2019 REU Fellow)
Tao Hong – Cornell University, now a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Materials Science at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø (2016 REU Fellow)
The NSF GRFP is the country’s oldest graduate fellowship program directly supporting graduate students since 1952. GRFP is a critical program in NSF’s overall strategy to develop a globally engaged workforce necessary to ensure the nation’s leadership in advancing science and engineering research and innovation.