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UC Santa Barbara's Graduate Division would like to congratulate and recognize the 17 graduate students who received an NSF GRFP Grant and the 17 graduate students who received honorable mentions. Read on for the list of winners and to learn how you can put together a stellar application for next year's competition!

By Chava Nerenberg, Graduate Programming Assistant
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 - 8:30am

GRFP Winners

UC Santa Barbara's Graduate Division would like to congratulate and recognize the 17 graduate students who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Grant and the 17 graduate students who received honorable mentions. The GRFP is one of the most preeminent honors that a young scholar can receive. In addition to the distinction, the GRFP provides research security and freedom by providing graduate students with $138,000 over three years.

The vast majority of the awardees participated in the NSF GRFP Series by Dr. Robby Nadler, Graduate Writing Specialist. For students interested in applying this year, Dr. Nadler is holding a mini GRFP series in April (starting April 7th!). Sign up for the series here!

Award Winners:

Daniel Arnold, Chemical Engineering
Alexander Dennis Davydov, Mechanical Engineering
Erin Esther de Leon Sanchez, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Stejara Iulia Dinulescu, Media Arts and Technology
Patrick Thomas Getty, Materials
William Connor Gibbs, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Binghao Guo, Materials
Kaylaa Lauretta Gutman, Chemistry
Lillian Barrett Hughes, Materials
Jacob Levitt, Chemistry
Adriane Michelle McDonald, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Kevin Joseph Modica, Chemical Engineering
Emily Elizabeth Morgan, Materials
Kaitlyn Mullin, Materials
Phong Hien Nguyen, Chemical Engineering
Nicola Louise Paul, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Brian William Roehrich, Chemistry

Honorable Mentions:

Ian Christopher Banta, Physics
Sean William Buechele, Physics
Lindsay Catherine Buff, Earth Science
Luke Francis Carberry, Geography
Hannah Isabella Ghasemi, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Aurland Hay, Materials
Phoebe Hertler, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Annette Elizabeth Hilton, Environmental Science & Management
Molly Elizabeth Kaplan, Physics
Justin Marlowe, Chemical Engineering
Osvaldo Ordonez, Chemistry
Surenna Pecchia, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Elizabeth Rizor, Dynamical Neuroscience
Gabriel Runte, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology
Harrison Szeto, Chemistry
Daniel Thayer, Psychological & Brain Sciences
Ashley Wissel, Materials

Congratulations again to all of these talented students!