Department of Energy Awards 5 Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowships

Ames, IA – Recognizing an ongoing need for highly-trained scientists in areas of interest to stewardship science, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration created the Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship (SSGF) Program to help address that need. The Fellowship is now in its third year.

The Fellowship provides up to four years of support to students pursuing a Ph.D. in areas such as high-energy-density physics, low-energy nuclear science, or properties of materials under extreme conditions and hydrodynamics. Students selected for the fellowships have backgrounds in a scientific or engineering discipline, computer science, or applied mathematics, and agree to pursue studies that both focus on their chosen field of study as well as enhance their breadth of expertise in the physical, engineering, mathematical and computer sciences.

The DOE CSGF provides fellows with benefits that include a yearly stipend of $32,400; payment of all tuition and fees; and funds for computers and travel to conferences. Fellows in this program participate in a highly regarded annual fellowship conference and obtain practical work experience via a three-month research assignment at one of NNSA’s research facilities

Each applicant for this highly competitive fellowship must provide a transcript, GRE scores, and a detailed program of study; in addition, three letters of reference are required from advisors, instructors and employers familiar with the applicant’s background and capabilities. These materials undergo careful scrutiny by a committee of distinguished people from the academic world and DOE national laboratories.

The Krell Institute, which administers the Fellowship, takes pleasure in announcing the awardees for the 2008-2009 academic year:

Paul Davis
University of California, Berkeley
Applied Physics

Richard Kraus
University of Cambridge, UK
Physics

Jordan McDonnell
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Theoretical Physics

Anna Nikiforova
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Engineering

Patrick O’Malley
Rutgers University
Experimental Nuclear Physics

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