LSUMNS Students Awarded Prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowships!
04/01/2015
Three LSUMNS graduate students are 2015 recipients of the National Science Foundation’s
Graduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship is highly competitive and awards scientists
early in their career who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving in
their field. Each recipient receives a $32,000 stipend (per year) and a $12,000 cost-of-education
allowance for up to three years.
LSUMNS 2015 GRFP Recipients
Zach Rodriguez
1st year Ph.D. student working in the herpetology division under Dr. Chris Austin.
Proposal Title: “The Evolution of Green Blood in Lizards”
Andre Moncrieff
1st year Ph.D. student working in the ornithology division under Dr. Robb Brumfield.
Proposal Title: “Understanding Large-Scale Movement Patterns of Psittacines: A Conservation
Priority”
Jonathan Nations
New graduate student joining us in the fall in the mammal division under Dr. Jake
Esselstyn.
Proposal Title: “Scansoriality in small mammals: coupling performance and skeletal
morphology to test for phenotypic convergence between two distantly related clades
on Madagascar.”
Congratulations to the awardees!