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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and Major External Fellowship Recipients
The Duke's Pratt School of Engineering encourages graduate students to seek support from important external fellowships. 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.
Duke Engineering has become the choice of recipients of these prestigious fellowships
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 academic and professional careers.
The U.S. Department of Defense offers several prestigious fellowship opportunities, including the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NSDEG) Fellowship, and the Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service program.
2021-2022
Zach Holmes
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Lingchong You
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Ouwen Huang
Undergraduate Institution: Duke University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Mark Palmeri
Department: BME
Fellowship: NIH F30
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Christopher Keys
Undergraduate Institution: California State University Sacramento
Duke Faculty Advisor: Krishnendu Chakrabarty
Department: ECE
Fellowship: Department of Defense SMART Scholarship
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Suphachart Leewiwatwong
Undergraduate Institution: King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
Duke Faculty Advisor: Bastiaan Driehuys
Department: BME
Fellowship: Royal Thai Government Scholarship
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Joy Li
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Tuan Vo-Dinh
Department: BME
Fellowship: The National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Ethan LoCicero
Undergraduate Institution: University of Notre Dame
Duke Faculty Advisor: Leila Bridgeman
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Ty Naquin
Undergraduate Institution: Troy University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Tony Jun Huang
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Marisa Patsy
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nenad Bursac
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Jake Peloquin
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Duke Faculty Advisor: Ken Gall
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation GRF, National Science Foundation aiM NRT
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Shannon Plunkett
Undergraduate Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Duke Faculty Advisor: Helen Hsu-Kim
Department: CEE
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Deferred
Joseph Rich
Undergraduate Institution: Brigham Young University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Tony Jun Huang
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
Josh Wu
Undergraduate Institution: Duke University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Timothy Dunn
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Fellowship Use: Immediate
2020-2021
Casey Baker
Undergraduate Institution: University of Virginia
Duke Faculty Advisor: Yiyang Gong
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Erika Chelales
Undergraduate Institution: Tulane University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Riley Deutsch
Undergraduate Institution: University of Iowa
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Defense Science and Engineering
Lillian Ekem
Undergraduate Institution: Yale University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship
Gavin Gonzales
Undergraduate Institution: University of New Mexico
Duke Faculty Advisor: Shyni Varghese, Stefan Zauscher
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Carson Key
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina State University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Charles Gersbach
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Tomer Rotstein
Undergraduate Institution: University of California Berkeley
Duke Faculty Advisor: Xiling Shen
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Curtis Shoyer
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Duke Faculty Advisor: Brenton Hoffman
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Jonathan Su
Undergraduate Institution: Oregon State University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Ashutosh Chilkoti
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Cyrus Tanade
Undergraduate Institution: University College London
Duke Faculty Advisor: Amanda Randles
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Ashley Williams
Undergraduate Institution: University of Illinois
Duke Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Viventi
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health F31
Brittani Carroll
Undergraduate Institution: University of Evansville
Duke Faculty Advisor: Aaron Franklin
Department: ECE
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Anne French
Duke Faculty Advisor: Miroslav Pajic
Department: ECE
Fellowship: USAF Prestigious STEM PhD Fellowship
Spence Hallyburton
Undergraduate Institution: Harvard University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Miroslav Pajic
Department: ECE
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Elizabeth Keys
Undergraduate Institution: California State University, Sacramento
Duke Faculty Advisor: David Smith
Department: ECE
Fellowship: Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation
Innocent Kironji
Duke Faculty Advisor: Leslie Collins
Department: ECE
Fellowship: The National GEM Consortium
Randy Linderman
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Yiran Chen
Department: ECE
Fellowship: Department of Defense National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program
Kavinayan Sivakumar
Duke Faculty Advisor: Michael Zavlanos
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Brittany Smith
Undergraduate Institution: University of Connecticut
Duke Faculty Advisor: Aaron Franklin
Department: ECE
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Marcello DeLuca
Undergraduate Institution: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Duke Faculty Advisor: Gaurav Arya
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Judith Dominguez
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Duke Faculty Advisor: Christine Payne
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
2019-2020
Elise Adamson
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Duke Faculty Advisor: Kafui Dzirasa
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kevin Choy
Undergraduate Institution: The University of Texas at Austin
Duke Faculty Advisor: Sina Farsiu
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Victoria D'Agostino
Undergraduate Institution: Northeastern University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Gary Hu
Undergraduate Institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Duke Faculty Advisor: John Dolbow
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: Idaho National Laboratory
Jessica LaLonde
Undergraduate Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Jennifer West
Department: MEMS
Fellowship: Sloan Research Fellowship & The National GEM Consortium
James Long
Undergraduate Institution: Rice University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Gregg Trahey
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Helena Ma
Undergraduate Institution: Princeton University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Lingchong You
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Latifah Maasarani
Undergraduate Institution: University of Central Florida
Duke Faculty Advisor: Adam Wax
Department: BME
Fellowship: Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Megan Madonna
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health F31
Robert Morhard
Undergraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Nimmi Ramanujam
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health F31
Grayson Rice
Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan
Duke Faculty Advisor: Charles Gersbach
Department: BME
Fellowship: Sloan Research Fellowship
Dahlia Rohm
Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Charles Gersbach
Department: BME
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
Paige Varner
Undergraduate Institution: College of Charleston
Duke Faculty Advisor: Claudia Gunsch
Department: CEE
Fellowship: National Science Foundation
2018-2019
2018-2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
Anthony Alers
Undergraduate Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Marc Sommer
Department: BME
Katrina Barth
Undergraduate Institution: Wake Forest University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Viventi
Department: BME
Lexi Bounds
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Charles Gersbach
Department: BME
Nadrat Chowdhury
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Mark Wiesner
Department: CEE
Elizabeth Curvino
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Joel Collier
Department: BME
Chelsea Fries
Undergraduate Institution: Northwestern University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Joel Collier
Department: BME
Anna Gilpin
Undergraduate Institution: West Virginia University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Shyni Varghese
Department: BME
Ali Hasan
Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Duke Faculty Advisor: Sina Farsiu
Department: BME
Matthew Huber
Undergraduate Institution: Rhodes College
Duke Faculty Advisor: Gregg Trahey
Department: BME
Wesley Kendall
Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Adam Wax
Department: BME
Amy King
Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Duke Faculty Advisor: Laurens Howle
Department: MEMS
Juilee Malavade
Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Brent Hoffman
Department: BME
Gabriella Shull
Undergraduate Institution: State University of New York Binghamton
Duke Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Viventi
Department: BME
Joana Sipe
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
Duke Faculty Advisor: Mark Wiesner
Department: CEE
2017-2018
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Kristen Hagan
- Abbigail Helfer
- Anastasia Varanko
- Veronica Gough
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NSDEG) Fellowship
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Jon Stewart
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Jim Turner
Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship for Service
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Kevin McHugh
2016-2017
More about our 2016-17 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Nadia Abutaleb
- Brian Allen
- Sean Kelly
- Robert Mines
- Ismael Perez
- Lucas Shores
- Ellen Weburg
- Kevin Zhou
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Nicholas Rogers
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Jorge Cardenas
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- William "Luke" Calkins
- Garrett Wessler
2015-2016
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Aman Aberra
- Bridget Crawford
- Katelyn Flint
- Zachary Steelman
- Asli Unal
- Noel Vera-Gonzalez
- Jason Wang
- Carolyn Zhang
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Brandon Hunter
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Ugonna Ohiri
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Kristen Wiedenheft
2014-2015
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Daniela Cruz
- Evan Gates
- Derek Ho
- Joseph Simon
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Amalia Turner
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Felicia McGuire
MEMS
- Korine Duval
2013-2014
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Leigh Joan Atchison
- Simone Costa
- Jennifer Gamboa
- Joshua Abram Hammer
- Christopher Jackman
- Erica Michelle Moore
- Brandon Nichols
- Stefan Roberts
- Jacqueline Nicole Robinson-Hamm
- Katy Rothenberg
- Isaac Weitzhandler
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Courtney Gardner
- Andrew Matsumoto
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Rafael Bello Fricks
- John Patrick O'Hollaren
Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Katherine Marusak
- Corey Oses
- Dalton George Sycks
2012-2013
National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Fellowship Program
Biomedical Engineering
- Zachary Abzug
- Oscar Carrasco-Zevallos
- Brittany Davis
- Megan Godsey
- Priscilla Hwang
- Kelli Luginbuhl
- Hannah Meredith
- James Polans
- Hrishikesh Rao
- Swarnali Sengupta
- Wyatt Shields
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Xue Feng
- Anna Wilson
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Nicholas Czarnek
- Heather Duschl