Science Achievement Graduate Fellowship
2019-2020 Recipients
The Penn State Eberly College of Science has selected seven graduate students as Science Achievement Graduate Fellows for 2019–2020. These scholarships are awarded each year to outstanding graduate students seeking a doctoral degree in each of the college’s seven departments who are interested in the advancement of women in the sciences and related fields. The scholarships were established in 2018 to recognize students who have a record of significant professional achievements in their field and who are role models for other students in the college. Each scholarship is named in honor of an outstanding woman scientist or mathematician who not only made groundbreaking discoveries but also blazed the trial for others who have followed in their footsteps. Fellows in the program will host two distinguished lectures each year in the college, in honor of the women for whom the scholarships are named.
Recipients of the 2019-2020 scholarships are:
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Astronomy
Phoebe Sandhaus, graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics, is interested in exoplanets and hopes to get involved in science outreach and teaching. About Phoebe...
Barbara McClintock Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Biology
Trinity Conn is a graduate student in the biology student and is broadly interested in the various adaptive mechanisms reef-building corals have to adapt to the changing climate, and how we can leverage natural adaptive variation to assist in restoration efforts. More about Trinity...
Rosalind E. Franklin Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Holly Kleinschmidt, a graduate student in the Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (BMMB) Ph.D. program, studies the elements that impact pioneer transcription factor binding in mammalian cell lines in Dr. Lu Bai’s lab. More about Holly...
Marie Sklodowska Curie Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Chemistry
Nushrat Hoque, graduate student in chemistry, is interested in the field of biochemistry, where she hopes to study proteins. She has co-authored a scientific paper from her previous research in RNA binding to hetero-nuclear organometallic complexes. About Nushrat...
Maryam Mirzakhani Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Mathematics
Hannah Rocio Santa Cruz, graduate student in mathematics, is interested in Algebraic and Topological problems. At Penn State, she hopes to do research with applications to Neuroscience. More about Hannah...
Mildred Dresselhaus Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Physics
Unnati Akhouri, Graduate student in physics, is interested in uncovering the fundamental underpinnings of our universe. Learn more about Unnati...
Janet L. Norwood Science Achievement Graduate Scholarship in Statistics
Samantha Roth. My research interests include environmental statistics, spatio-temporal statistics, computational statistics, statistical ecology, and applications to epidemiology. About Samantha...