Georgetown Physics Alumna Kaitlyn Johnson Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Georgetown Physics Alumna Kaitlyn Johnson has been Awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Kaitlyn worked in Professor Edward Van Keuren’s Lab as an undergraduate student and is currently working on her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) announced the offer of 2,000 fellowship awards, following a national competition. The program recruits high-potential, early-career scientists and engineers and supports their graduate research training in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Launched in 1952 shortly after Congress established NSF, GRFP represents the nation’s oldest continuous investment in the U.S. STEM workforce.

The new awardees were selected from more than 12,000 applicants and come from all 50 U.S. states, as well as the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. Honorable mention recognition went to 1,459 individuals. The group of 2,000 awardees is diverse, including 1,156 women, 461 individuals from underrepresented minority groups, 75 persons with disabilities, 27 veterans and 780 who have not yet enrolled in graduate school. These awardees did their undergraduate studies at more than 443 institutions, ranging from small undergraduate, minority-serving, tribal and community colleges, to large state or private universities and Ivy League institutions.

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