Alumna Beth Repasky Bowman (Honors, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major), currently a graduate student at Emory University, just received notice that she has been selected to receive a 2010 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). This award is highly competitive and only 1,650 were awarded this year. Quoting the NSF: “Your selection was based on your outstanding abilities and accomplishments, as well as your potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise.”
Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $30,000 along with a $10,500 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees, a one-time $1,000 international travel allowance and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S., or foreign institution of graduate education they choose.
