BME students win NSF/NSERC research fellowships.
04/16/2008
Six students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering have been awarded prestigious National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. This number represents nearly 10% of all the NSF Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering fellowships awarded nationwide.
In addition, two other BME students have been awarded graduate research fellowships from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and one student also won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
BME undergraduate Eileen Sun '08, whose mentor is Assistant Professor Lance Kam, was named a 2008 NSF Graduate Fellow. She will use her fellowship to undertake graduate studies at Harvard University.
Doctoral candidates in the SEAS Department of Biomedical Engineering who are the recipients of NSF Graduate Fellowships are: Brenda Chen and Matthew Bouchard mentored by Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hillman, (Matthew also won an NDSEG fellowship), Nora Khanarian, mentored by Associate Professor Helen H. Lu; Andrea Tan, mentored by Associate Professor Clark T. Hung; and Jennifer Walz, mentored by Associate Professor Paul Sajda.
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Left to right: Benjamin Elkin, Andrea Tan, Nora Khanarian, Brenda Chen, Molly Flexman, Jennifer Walz |
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