Graduate students Jamie Douglas and Chris Martin recently received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships - distinguished awards that are highly competitive. They are given to outstanding students in NSF-supported disciplines to support their graduate-level study. Past recipients include US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Google founder Sergey Brin, and Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program has funded more than 46,500 students since its inception in 1952, including 30 future Nobel laureates and 440 future members of the National Academy of Sciences. The fellowships currently provide three years of financial support, including tuition allowances, along with opportunities for international research and professional development.
Chris, a second-year PhD student who completed his undergraduate and masters degrees at Utah State University, submitted a research proposal examining the management of fisheries under uncertainty caused by stressors such as climate change, pollution, or population growth, stressors that have led many projections to suggest that the character of fisheries will change over time. Chris' research seeks to determine when this changing character matters, and how managers might account for it.
Jamie, who earned her undergraduate degree from Pomona College, is in her first year of the PhD program. Jamie's successful research proposal compares cohorts of early and late child bearers to investigate the degree to which the timing of career interruptions accounts for the earnings gap between early and late child bearers of different income levels.
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