Alumni Awards
Alumnus and Senior Receive Graduate School Awards
Two students from Union's Department of Engineering have received exciting news in recent days! Matt Bentley, who graduated in May of 2015 and is currently a graduate student in environmental engineering at the University of Colorado, was awarded the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a three-year award that pays an annual stipend plus an education allowance for tuition and fees. Chelsea Johnson, who will graduate in May of 2016 and plans to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, was awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, another three-year award that also pays an annual stipend plus an education allowance. Both awards are highly competitive.
According to the website for the NSF Fellowship: "The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. 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."
According to the website for the NDSEG Fellowship: "As a means of increasing the number of U.S. citizens and nationals trained in science and engineering disciplines of military importance, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to award approximately 200 new three-year graduate fellowships in April 2016, subject to the availability of funds. The DoD will offer these fellowships to individuals who have demonstrated the ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering."
The Department of Engineering is delighted to celebrate this accomplishment with two of our outstanding students, and we wish them the best as they continue their studies.