National Science Foundation Grants 2006 Research Fellowships to Three LSU College of Engineering Recent Graduates

April 21, 2006

Biological engineering recent graduates Carla Haslauer, Brandon Kilbourne and Adam Martinez were recently awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. These NSF fellowships are among the most prestigious awards given to incoming and current graduate students, carrying stipends of $30,000 and $10,500 cost of education allowance per year for three years.

Carla Haslauer, who worked with Todd Monroe, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE), is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Brandon Kilbourne, who studied under Dr. Judith Schiebout in Geology and Marybeth Lima, associate professor in BAE, is a Ph.D. student in evolutionary biology and biomechanics at the University of Chicago. Adam Martinez completed an honors thesis with Todd Monroe, and is now pursuing a biomedical engineering Ph.D. from Georgia Tech. Haslauer, Kilbourne and Martinez were the only LSU students to receive NSF fellowships for 2006.