{"id":935,"date":"2010-04-29T01:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=935"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T17:36:57","slug":"gradscapturehonors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/04\/gradscapturehonors\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Students Capture Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four engineering students have been selected to receive coveted National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships from approximately 1,650 awards presented this year. The students are: Alexandra Cooper, a chemical engineering student who is engaged in graduate studies at Cornell University; Joseph Zinski, a chemical engineering student who will pursue his graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania; Eric Sirois, who is currently pursuing his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at UConn; and Michael Khalil, a biomedical engineering graduate who is pursuing his graduate degree at Columbia University.<\/p>\n

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. NSF awards the highly competitive fellowships based on the quality of students’ detailed application materials, academic record and references. The fellowships entail a $30,000\/year stipend presented to the student, along with an educational allowance to the host university.<\/p>\n

UConn engineering students have garnered GRFP in previous years, as well. Recipients and honorable mentions, from 2006-date, are summarized in the tables below.<\/p>\n

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

B.S. Univ. <\/strong><\/p>\n

& Degree Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Undergraduate Degree Program<\/strong><\/td>\nGraduate University<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nAlexandra Cooper<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nCornell University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nMichael Khalil<\/td>\nUConn\/2008<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eric Sirois<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nMechanical Engineering<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Joseph Zinski<\/td>\nUConn\/2010<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nKathryn Fontaine<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nDartmouth College<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexander Gusev<\/td>\nUConn\/2007<\/td>\nComputer Science & Engineering<\/td>\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006<\/td>\nEric Landry<\/td>\nUConn\/2005<\/td>\nMechanical Engineering<\/td>\nCarnegie Mellon University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mentions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/strong><\/td>\nName<\/strong><\/td>\n\n

B.S. Univ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

& Degree Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

Undergraduate Degree Program<\/strong><\/td>\nGraduate University<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nMatthew Boucher<\/td>\nUConn — B.S. ’07; M.S. ’08<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nTufts University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jacob Martin<\/td>\nUConn\/2008<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nRensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R. Sterling Nesbitt<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michelle Przybylek<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nEnvironmental Engineering<\/td>\n\n

University of Michigan-<\/p>\n

Ann Arbor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2009<\/td>\nJames L. Bosse<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nMaterials Science & Engineering<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Christine Endicott<\/td>\nUConn\/2008<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nCornell University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Michael Khalil<\/td>\nUConn\/2008<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R. Sterling Nesbitt<\/td>\nUConn\/2009<\/td>\nBiomedical Engineering<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Derek Nener-Plante<\/td>\nUniversity of Maine\/2008<\/td>\nCivil Engineering<\/td>\nUConn<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008<\/td>\nChristine Endicott<\/td>\nUConn\/2008<\/td>\nChemical Engineering<\/td>\nCornell University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007<\/td>\nAlexander Gusev<\/td>\nUConn\/2007<\/td>\nComputer Science & Engineering<\/td>\nColumbia University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees and is intended for students who are in the early stages of their graduate study. NSF awards the highly competitive fellowships based on the quality of students’ detailed application materials, academic record and references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":156636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 10:27:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225130,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/225130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/156636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}