2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Awards & Honorable Mentions

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Congratulations to our current graduate and undergraduate students and alumni who have received prestigious 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) and Honorable Mentions.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend and a cost of education allowance to the institution.


Starting from the top row clockwise: 2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipients: AJ Addae, Allison Hands, Kevin Liu, Antonio Macias, Jeff Qu, Nathalie Co, Chris La, and Amanda Nguyen. 2024 NSF Honorable Mention recipients: Pujan Ajmera, Elijah Biletch, Shawn Chiu, Devon Stuart, Dani Turner, Zachary Walters, Lianne Alson, Kyle Anderson, and Brock Hosier. Not pictured are Tucker Allen, Hannah Hunter, and Sophia Westerkamp.

2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships (GRFP) were awarded to 2nd year graduate students AJ Addae (P. Weiss), Allison Hands (Garg), Kevin Liu (Nava) and Antonio Macias (Garcia-Garibay) and to current and former undergraduate researchers Jeff Qu (Rodriguez); Nathalie Co (’22, Diaconescu), now a graduate student at UC Berkeley; Chris La (’22, Paulson), now a graduate student at UC Berkeley; Amanda Nguyen (Schwartz), headed to Northwestern for graduate school in the fall.

2024 Honorable Mentions by NSF, also a significant national academic achievement, were accorded to 2nd year graduate students Pujan Ajmera (Alexandrova), Tucker Allen (Neuhauser), Elijah Biletch (Backus), Shawn Chiu (Alexandrova), Devon Stuart (Sletten), Dani Turner (Garg) and Zachary Walters (Garg) and current and former undergraduate researchers Hannah Hunter (R. Tripati); Sophia Westerkamp (E.D. Young Laboratory); Lianne Alson (Caram), headed to Stanford for graduate school in the fall; Kyle Anderson (’24, C. Clarke), headed to UC Berkeley for graduate school in the fall; Brock Hosier (Maynard), headed to Princeton for graduate school next year.

Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.