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WKU News
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Dr. Jenni Teeters has high praise and high expectations for Shelby King, the 2020-21 recipient of WKU’s John D. Minton Graduate Student Award.
“I am so grateful to have gotten to work with Shelby during her time in our M.S. program and am very excited to see her develop into a clinical psychologist whose research and clinical work will make substantial contributions to the community and the field,” said Dr. Teeters, assistant professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences.
King, who is completing her master’s degree in Psychological Sciences, will be recognized at the evening ceremony of WKU’s Fall 2020/Spring 2021 Commencement on Saturday.
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.