Twenty-One Graduate Students Earn External Fellowships
Highly competitive national awards will help 21 new and returning Duke Engineering graduate students conduct research on campus
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 nabbed 21 fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense and the United States Air Force.
“Earning each of these fellowships is a highly competitive process,” said Jennifer West, the Fitzpatrick Family University Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean for PhD 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
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