Stephen Gill, Kristina Meier, and Samantha Rubeck Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships!
3/29/2016 10:51:42 AM
Illinois Physics graduate students Stephen Gill, Kristina Meier, and Samantha Rubeck have been awarded 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Only 2000 fellowships were awarded from over 16,000 applications.
Stephen is a second-year graduate student in the research group of Prof. Nadya Mason, Kristina is a first-year graduate student in the research group of Prof. Paul Kwiat, and Samantha Rubeck is a first-year graduate student in Peter Abbamonte's research group.
Additionally, 5 Illinois Physics students earned Honorable Mention awards in the 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition: incoming grad student Joseph Chapman (Paul Kwiat), and first-year grad students Jahan Claes (Bryan Clark), Sang Hyun Choi, Daniel Inafuku (Gina Lorenz), and Davneet Kaur.
Congratulations to all of these Illinois Physics graduate students!
Stephen, Kristina, and Samantha join current Illinois Physics NSF graduate fellowship holders Brian Busemeyer, Courtney Byard, Rebecca Holmes, Nick LaRacuente, Gloria Lee, Laura Wadleigh, and Kiel Williams.