The National Science Foundation has awarded three-year graduate fellowships to several Texas A&M University engineering students.

Students annually receive up to $10,500 for tuition and fees to the school of their choice, plus a $30,000 stipend for living expenses. The NSF Graduate Fellowships are very competitive; only 1,000 are given from a pool of more than 3,000 applications.

Fellowship recipients who received their undergraduate degrees from Texas A&M and will continue their graduate degrees at Texas A&M are Josiah Michael Manson, computer science and engineering; Nicole Renee Mendoza, aerospace engineering; Katherine Lynn Ramirez, biomedical engineering.

Aggies receiving honorable mentions and who plan to pursue graduate engineering studies at Texas A&M were Daniel Borsodi Araya, aerospace engineering; Holly Catherine Gibbs, biomedical engineering; Matthew Wade Harris, aerospace engineering; Chi Luong Nhat Mai, aerospace engineering; Jacob Jeremiah McDonald, electrical engineering; Alexander Morgan Pankonien, aerospace engineering; Hayes Franklin Stripling, nuclear engineering; and Justin Wayne Wilkerson, aerospace engineering.

Additionally, four Texas A&M Engineering graduates who will pursue graduate degrees elsewhere also received fellowships: Sonia Amira Bendjemil, biomedical engineering (Rice University); Cody A. Schoener, biomedical engineering (Rice University); Lucas Kinard, chemical engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); and Kiri Elizabeth Kilpatrick, chemical engineering (William Marsh Rice University).

Aggie graduates and honorable mention recipients Carissa Randolph, biomedical engineering, and Paige M. Rieck, civil engineering, will pursue graduate degrees at Cornell University and Stanford University, respectively.

Finally, two students from other universities (Jared Wesley Lee, aerospace engineering, and Dustin W. Ritter, biomedical engineering) will pursue graduate engineering studies at Texas A&M and received NSF fellowships, and two (Timothy A. Mann, computer science and engineering, and Meagan Saldua, biomedical engineering) received honorable mention.

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) 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 in the United States and abroad.

NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals, states the NSF Web site, will be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.

Students apply for the graduate fellowships before or during their first year of graduate study. Students can choose to attend any university in the United States or an affiliate with a foreign institution.

The NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering research and education. NSF funds reach all 50 states through grants to more than 2,000 universities and institutions nationwide.

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