Three Featured Student Awards

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D. Christopher Radford

Graduate research assistant D. Christopher Radford was awarded an NIH Predoctoral Fellow Award (F31) from the National Cancer Institute. This two-year award will support his work in the lab of professor

Jindrich Kopecek

with over $32,000 in funding per year. The project is entitled ‘A Multimodal Imaging Strategy for Preclinical Optimization of Anticancer Drugs.’ The award supports promising doctoral candidates working toward a Ph.D. degree in a scientific health-related field relevant to the mission of the NCI.

Read more about this award.

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Martin Jensen

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Daria Anderson

Martin Jensen (working in the lab of professor

Hamid Ghandehari

), and Daria Anderson (working in the lab of professor

Chuck Dorval

) each has received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship worth $34,000 a year for three years. The GRFP helps ensure the vitality of the work done by scientists and engineers in the United States. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers.

The reputation of the GRFP follows recipients and often helps them become life-long leaders that contribute significantly to both scientific innovation and teaching. Past fellows include numerous Nobel Prize winners; former U.S. secretary of Energy,

Steven Chu

; Google founder,

Sergey Brin; and Freakonomics co-author,

Steven Levitt

. NSF Fellows often become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic wellbeing of society at large.

Read more about GRFP.