Arts and Sciences Students Recognized by NSF
Thirteen graduate and undergraduate students representing a number of School of Arts and Sciences departments are among the University of Pittsburgh students to be recognized by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The program supports outstanding individuals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are currently pursuing or will pursue research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad.
The 2010 NSF GRFP honorees in the undergraduate category are:
Joshua Cannon Anthropology and Linguistics
Erin Donnelly Anthropology and Linguistics
Erin Rodriguez Anthropology
Stanley Steers Economics, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy
Allyson Tessin Geology and Planetary Science
The 2010 NSF GRFP winners and honorable mention honorees in the graduate category are:
Winners
Julia Bursten History and Philosophy of Science
Eric Griffin Biological Sciences
Katherine Martin Linguistics
Aarthi Padmanabhan Psychology
Honorable Mentions
Brandon Mills Chemistry
Elizabeth Paladin Chemistry
Alba Tuninetti Psychology
Anja Weyant Physics and Astronomy
In addition, three Arts and Sciences undergraduate alumni, Timothy Adamo (A&S ’09), Joshua Bagley (A&S ’06), and Timothy Sampson (A&S ’08), received NSF GRFP awards to support their graduate studies at, respectively, Oxford, University of California at San Francisco, and Emory University.