Bovee and Nguyen Receive Prestigious NSF Fellowships

Fellowships are funded for a maximum of three years and may be used in any three, 12-month units, starting in Summer (June 1) or Fall (September 1) over a five-year period that begins in 2011. Both Bovee and Nguyen have already committed to summer internships and plan to begin their NSF Fellowships in the Fall. Bovee will be interning at Cummins Engine in Columbus, Indiana this summer and Nguyen will be in Houston, Texas for an internship at the Johnson Space Center. Student recipients are permitted to conduct research on a topic of their choosing. To date, Bovee has spent a significant amount of time researching emissions controls for the EcoCAR project and Nguyen has been focused on biomechanics, specifically the reverse engineering of ants. Bovee works with Shawn Midlam-Mohler and her advisor Professor Giorgio Rizzoni. Associate Professor Blaine Lilly is advisor to Nguyen. 

 

As NSF Fellowship awards go, this is a banner year for Ohio State. According to Dana Kuchem, Ohio State's Scholarship & Fellowship Manager, 2011 marks the most NSF Graduate Research Fellowships ever awarded to OSU students.  Twenty-one Ohio State students were named fellows: 10 undergraduates and 11 graduate students.  In addition, five students were named to the Honorable Mention list: 3 undergraduates and 2 graduate students. This year’s record number of fellows far surpasses the previous high in 2009 of 11 NSF Fellowships.

Congratulations Katherine and Vienny on your selection as Graduate Research Fellowship Program Fellows!