Fifteen Earn National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships

Each year, the Pratt School of Engineering encourages graduate students to seek support from external fellowship awards. Earning these competitive fellowships goes a long way toward helping emerging scientists conduct their research while raising Duke Engineering’s profile and research portfolio in turn.

This year, new and returning Duke Engineering graduate students manage to nab 15 fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind in the United States, with a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers. This competitive fellowship program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who pursue research-based master's and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions of higher learning.

“The NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are part of a highly competitive national program,” said Jennifer West, the Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean for Ph.D. Education at Duke. “It is gratifying to see the talent and hard work of our exceptional doctoral students recognized at this level.”

Congratulations to This Year’s Recipients