24 current students among 44 affiliated with university to win Graduate Research Fellowships
Daziyah Sullivan applied for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship as an undergraduate, but wasn’t selected that year.
Mechanical engineering graduate student Daziyah Sullivan is among this year’s cohort of 17 current grad students awarded one of the coveted five-year NSF fellowships.
Mechanical engineering graduate student Daziyah Sullivan is among this year’s cohort of 17 current grad students awarded one of the coveted five-year NSF fellowships.
“I was worried about whether I should have waited to have publications or more tangible research experience before trying again,” said Sullivan, a graduate student in mechanical engineering who works in Rice’s MAHI Lab. But after receiving sweeping encouragement from her team in the lab, her adviser — Marcia O’Malley, professor of mechanical engineering — and the virtual coaching program sponsored by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS), Sullivan gave it another shot.