Three students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering are recipients of the 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowships that will allow them to pursue graduate studies in the biomedical field.
Amanda Meriwether will graduate in 2018 with a B.S. in biomedical engineering and B.A. in plan II honors. She works in Dr. Jeanne Stachowiak’s laboratory on innovative methods to deliver therapeutics and siRNA directly to cells through connectosomes, or extracellular vesicles that express gap junction proteins.
Kaitlyn Johnson is a graduate student in Dr. Amy Brock’s laboratory. Johnson investigates the role of intra-tumoral heterogeneity and cellular plasticity in the dynamic development of chemoresistance using computational modeling to expose the fundamental principles that guide this phenomenon.
Nathan Richbourg will graduate from the University of Oklahoma in 2018 and begin graduate studies in biomedical engineering at UT Austin in the fall of 2018.
The NSF graduate fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who are pursuing research-based master's degrees and doctorates at accredited institutions in the U.S.
For the 2018 competition, NSF received over 12,000 applications, and made 2,000 award offers.
These fellowships will provide Meriwether, Johnson, and Richbourg with a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees, opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education.
Read more about the fellowships.
