{"id":22859,"date":"2026-08-13T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=22859"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:04:17","slug":"nsf-graduate-research-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/Q3\/nsf-graduate-research-fellows","title":{"rendered":"NSF Graduate Research Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

AWARDED<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Current Purdue Graduate Students<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\n FIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Abaigeal Aydt<\/td>\n University of Nebraska\u2014Lincoln<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Giada Brandes<\/td>\n Boise State University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Biomedical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Marcus Condarcure<\/td>\n University of California, Santa Barbara<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Chemical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Wesley Cooke<\/td>\n Augusta University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Engineering – Robotics, Control, Automation<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Andrew Dahm<\/td>\n Rice University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
W. Grant Dierking<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Harel Dor<\/td>\n California Institute of Technology<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Computer Vision<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Katie Hart<\/td>\n Rice University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Kailey Jones<\/td>\n Barnard College<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Climate and Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Jenna Palka<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Civil Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Emilio Pereira<\/td>\n University of Central Florida<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Jessica Prakash<\/td>\n University of California, Santa Cruz<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Biomedical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Michael Tung<\/td>\n University of Florida<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Communication and Information Theory<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Benjamin Wassgren<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Yuwei Yang<\/td>\n Vanderbilt University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Human Computer Interaction<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Ho Martin Yuen<\/td>\n Stony Brook University<\/td>\n Purdue <\/td>\n Chemical Catalysis<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Purdue Undergraduate Students at Application<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\n FIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Elena Boughton<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Organismal Biology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Geetika Chitturi<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Electrical and Electronic Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Deniz Eksioglu<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Bioengineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Aidan Jacobsen<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Quantum Information Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Nathan Petrucci<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Biomedical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Christina Sowinski<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Geomorphology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Amber Kuo Wang<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Chemical Measurement and Imaging<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Alumni<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\n FIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Jade Coxon<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n University of Colorado Boulder<\/td>\n Bioengineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Thomas Deucher<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td>\n Materials Science and Engineering <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Giovanna Durante<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Dartmouth College<\/td>\n Bioinformatics and Computational Biology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Emmett Freeman<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Georgia Institute of Technology<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Joel Laudo<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Columbia University<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Gabriel Leonard<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n <\/td>\n Economics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Santiago Lopez<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Harvard University<\/td>\n Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Noelle Naughton<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Cell Biology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Jason Packard<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Yale University<\/td>\n Materials Science and Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Erek Rzendzian<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n University of Michigan<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n\n\n\n

HONORABLE MENTION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Current Purdue Graduate Students <\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\n FIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Jeremiah Brincken<\/td>\n Southern Illinois University Edwardsville<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Macromolecular Chemistry<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Maison Hardin<\/td>\n Ball State University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Chemical Catalysis<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Ian P Hoffman<\/td>\n University of Alabama<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Juliana Kelley<\/td>\n University of Colorado Boulder<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Emma Kostecki<\/td>\n University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Magnetospheric Physics<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Teresa Lee<\/td>\n University of Michigan<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Chemistry <\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Wyatt Whitmer<\/td>\n Brigham Young University<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate Alumni<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\n FIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Anagha Sandeep Gaitonde<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Bioengineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Lauren Johnson<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Geosciences \u2014 Sedimentary Geology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

Purdue Alumni<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n
NAME<\/th>\n BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE<\/th>\n CURRENT INSTITUTE<\/th>\nFIELD OF STUDY<\/th>\n <\/tr>\n <\/thead>\n
Kathryn Ault<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/td>\n Chemical Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Ella Chianis<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science<\/td>\n Biochemistry<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Luke Dubec<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n Penn State <\/td>\n Cognitive Psychology<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n
Jenna Schoonmaker<\/td>\n Purdue<\/td>\n <\/td>\n Environmental and\/or Ecological Engineering<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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AWARDED Current Purdue Graduate Students NAME BACCALAUREATE INSTITUTE CURRENT INSTITUTE FIELD OF STUDY Abaigeal Aydt University of Nebraska\u2014Lincoln Purdue Mechanical Engineering Giada Brandes Boise State University Purdue Biomedical Engineering Marcus Condarcure University of California, Santa Barbara Purdue Chemical Engineering Wesley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-22859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-excellence","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22908,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions\/22908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}