Ken Kennedy Institute graduate fellowship program awards $65,000

The 2019-20 recipients, their fellowships and the amounts are:

Nidish Narayanaa Balaji, mechanical engineering: Kennedy-Cray, $7,500
Randall Balestriero, electrical and computer engineering (ECE): BP, $7,500
Ao Cai, earth, environmental and planetary sciences: Shell, $7,500
Mae Markowski, computational and applied mathematics (CAAM): Shell, $7,500
Afsaneh Rahbar, computer science (CS): Andrew Ladd, $5,000
Thomas Roddenberry, ECE: AMD, $7,500
Christina Taylor, CAAM: BP, $7,500
Keren Zhou, CS: ExxonMobil, $7,500
Ye Emma Zohner, statistics: Schlumberger, $7,500

Recipients use fellowship awards to further research pursuits, attend conferences, travel, and develop networking relationships. Many past recipients have spent summers as research interns with sponsoring companies and several work in industry.

With the support of industry and the conference, the Ken Kennedy Institute has awarded almost $1.2 million to more than 135 students since 2002. The graduate fellowships are supported by AMD, BP, ExxonMobil, Schlumberger, and Shell as well as from the Andrew Ladd and Kennedy-Cray endowments.

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