Eight Students Win National Science Foundation Fellowships

4-24-96
University Park, Pa. -- Eight Penn State students have won three-year graduate Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

NSF Fellows are selected in national competition on the basis of academic excellence and the promise of contributing significantly to research, teaching and industrial applications in science, mathematics and engineering. They are awarded for graduate study leading to research-based master's or doctoral degrees, and receive a stipend of $14,400 a year with an additional cost-of education allowance of $8,600 to the schools they attend. Each fellow also receives a one-time International Research Allowance of $1,000. Seven of the fellows are or were University Scholars.

The 1996 NSF Fellows and their majors are:
-- Michelle Brincat, chemical engineering, will attend the University of Minnesota in chemical engineering,
-- Jeff Caldwell, architectural engineering, will attend Penn State in engineering,
-- Brent Cottom, ceramic science and engineering, will attend the University of California in material engineering,
-- Manish Desai, astronomy and premedicine, will attend the University of California in ecology,

-- Stephen Gaddy, meteorology, will attend the University of Oklahoma in meteorology,
-- Michael Gurven, anthropology and math, will attend the University of Utah in anthropology and biology,
-- Stacy Seibert, biology, will attend Ohio State University in genetics,
-- Stephanie TerMaath, civil engineering, will attend Cornell University in civil Engineering.

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Contact: Christy Rambeau (814) 865-7517 (office) cmr7@psu.edu