College of Sciences alumni and graduate students are among the seventy-five Yellow Jackets awarded Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF) from the National Science Foundation. The fellowships, valued at $159,000, include funding for three years of graduate study and tuition for graduate students pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or STEM education.  

The Georgia Tech recipients of the fellowship, which has supported over 70,000 students since its inception in 1952, were selected from a pool of more than 14,000 applicants nationwide. Fellowships are awarded to students “who have demonstrated potential for significant achievements in research.” 

Alumni: 

• Mariah Castillo – Chemical Catalysis 
• Brandon Choi – Physics and Astronomy - Artificial Intelligence
• Brice Bradley Edelman – Comp/IS/Eng - Artificial Intelligence 
• Marielle Frooman – Chemistry – Chemical Synthesis  
• Kush Gandhi – Physics and Astronomy - Quantum Information Science 
• Divya Iyer – Materials Research - Chemistry of Materials 
• Elizabeth Mone – Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy and Astrophysics 
• Akash Narayanan – Mathematical Sciences – Topology 
• Matthew Rohan – Materials Research - Chemistry of Materials 
• Isaac Sipp-Alpers – Geosciences – Paleoceanography 
• Skylar Taylor – Life Sciences – Organismal Biology