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Shashaank Narayanan have been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
With an annual $34,000 stipend and a $12,000 cost of education allowance per year for three years,
Copeland will continue her work investigating the intersection of aging and reading comprehension as a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognition and Neural Science Program at the University of Utah.
“This award will likely completely alter the trajectory of my career as a scientist,” said Copeland, “as it provides both early-career prestige and freedom to pursue my own research questions.”
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is the oldest graduate fellowship program in the country that supports graduate students in the sciences, social sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics. Its scholars have become Nobel laureates and members of the National Academy of Sciences. More than 13,000 applicants pursued the award this year.