16 Statistics Students Awarded Prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently announced the 2018 recipients of its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship. Sixteen statistics, biostatistics, and computational statistics students were among them, and three more students designated their field of study as computational and data-enabled science.
The fellowship provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period—$34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the graduate institution. According to the announcement, the fellowship program was launched in 1952, shortly after Congress established NSF, making it the nation’s oldest continuous investment in the US STEM workforce.
The 2,000 awardees were selected from more than 12,000 applicants and included 1,156 women, 461 individuals from under-represented minority groups, 75 persons with disabilities, 27 veterans, and 780 who have not yet enrolled in graduate school.
Interested in applying? See the advice of past winners to potential applicants here and here. For past winners of this fellowship, see this blog entry and the links therein.
Awardees and Their Institutions
| Name | Baccalaureate Institution | Current Institution |
|---|
| Angiuli, Olivia | Harvard College | University of California, Berkeley |
| Grabski, Isabella Natalie | Princeton University | Princeton University |
| Hansen, Derek Lars | University of Oklahoma | |
| Huang, Melody Yun | University of California-Los Angeles | |
| Hudson, Aaron | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | University of Washington |
| Jahja, Maria | North Carolina State University | Carnegie-Mellon University |
| Kwan, Brian | University of California-Irvine | University of California, San Diego |
| Lei, Rayleigh Xunan | Columbia University | University of Michigan Ann Arbor |
| Ling, Sharon | The College of New Jersey | The College of New Jersey |
| Little, Amarise Noelle | California Institute of Technology | University of Washington |
| Min, Alan Ted | Purdue University | Purdue University |
| Nogues, Isabella | Princeton University | Harvard University |
| Paskov, Ivan Spassimirov | Stanford University | Stanford University |
| Shu, Kevin | California Institute of Technology | California Institute of Technology |
| Spertus, Jacob Victor | Bowdoin College | |
| Weinstein, Sarah M | Columbia University | |