Purdue Nuclear Engineering Students Awarded Fellowships and Grants

Purdue Nuclear Engineering Students Awarded Fellowships and Grants

Nicholas Brown, Doug French, William Fullmer, Thomas Grimes, Lenka Kollar, Bryan Sims, and Melissa Ann Van Kleeck each have been awarded a fellowship or grant.

Nicholas Brown

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship

This fellowship provides a stipend, tuition, fees and medical insurance supplement support to outstanding Ph.D. candidates in their final year of writing for candidates receiving their doctoral degree at the conclusion of the following year. Dissertation title, “Study of Hydrogen Generation Plant Coupled to High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactor.”

 

William Fullmer

Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program Fellowship

This three-year Fellowship provides tuition, stipend, and research travel. The program’s immediate objective is to attract the brightest students to all science and engineering disciplines related to nuclear energy, such as Nuclear Engineering, Health Physics, Nuclear Materials Science, Radiochemistry, Applied Nuclear Physics, and Nuclear Policy at Universities and Colleges located in the U.S. The Fellowship Program awards fellowships for graduate study leading to research based masters or doctoral degrees in the fields or disciplines of nuclear science and engineering that are relevant to the nuclear energy mission of Nuclear Energy.

Thomas Grimes

Purdue Doctoral Fellowship

A two-year award to enhance the diversity of the graduate student body through the recruitment of students from diverse backgrounds with diverse views and experiences. Among other qualifications, the recipients of this award demonstrate superior academic achievements, scholarly abilities, leadership, and service experience. This fellowship provides a stipend, tuition coverage and a medical insurance supplement.

Mr. Grimes also received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program, (GRFP) Fellows receive three years of support, an annual stipend, cost-of-education allowance and TeraGrid Supercomputer access. The National Science Foundation's GRFP helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in National Science Foundation-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad.

Lenka Kollar

National Nuclear Security Administration Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship

Fellows work within the NNSA's Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation on programs designed to detect, prevent, and reverse the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, while mitigating the risks from nuclear operations. This is a 12-month, full-time fellowship program in Washington D.C. The Fellowship provides a salary of $45,000 and benefits.

Bryan Sims

Department of Homeland Security, (DHS) Career Development Grant

Awarded through Purdue University’s DHS Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments Center of Excellence, (VACCINE). This grant has been developed to ensure homeland security research programs continue into the future, DHS Science and Technology supports grants to qualified graduate students in homeland security-related fields who will use their education and training to become the next generation of scientists and technology leaders. These grants support the best programs that will train future homeland security-oriented scientists and technologists and ensure their placement in homeland security - science, technology, engineering and management careers.

Purdue Doctoral Fellowship

National Science Foundation Fellowship, Honorable Mention

The Purdue Doctoral Fellowship is a two-year award to enhance the diversity of the graduate student body through the recruitment of students from diverse backgrounds with deverse views and experiences. Among other qualifications, the recipients of this award demonstrate superior academic achievements, scholarly abilities, leadership, and service experience. This fellowship provides a stipend, tuition coverage and a medical insurance supplement.