Megan Farell, a second-year graduate student in the Manish Kumar lab and current secretary of the ChE GSA, was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

From the NSF’s website:

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program 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 at accredited United States institutions.

External fellowships give graduate students more freedom to pursue their specific research interests. The NSF GRFP, one of the most prestigious in the United States, is among many such opportunities. All potential and current graduate students are encouraged to apply to these fellowships.