Graduate Research Fellowship Past Awardees
Graduate Research Fellowship Past Awardees
Past Awardees
VTSGC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2024-2025| Student | Degree Program | Department | Project Title |
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| Natalie Bett | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Joint Geometry’s Impact on Articular Cartilage’s Response to Loading as Measured In Vivo Using Quantitative MRI |
| Calum Buchanan | PhD | Mathematical Sciences | Spatial Connectivity and Reliability of Satellite Communication Networks |
| Benjamin DesRoberts | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Active Dust Mitigation via a Bounded Vortex Flow Approach |
| Ericka Griggs | PhD | Biology | Using Remote Sensing Tools to Model Malaria Parasite (genus Plasmodium) Expansion in Common Loons (Gavia immer) |
| Sarah-Catherine Paschall | PhD | Cellular, Molecular, & Biomedical Sciences | Molecular Mechanisms of KIFBP in Promoting Neuronal Development and Maintenance |
| Joel Pyfrom | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Vibrational Control in Space Using Topological Mechanical Metamaterials |
| Jeremy Quail | PhD | Mathematical Sciences | Routing Over Space Networks |
| Nicole Roode | PhD | Electrical & Biomedical Engineering | Size-Specific Nanoparticles as Treatment for Vacular Disease in Low Resource Environments |
| Greta Savitsky | PhD | Plant Biology | Using LPJ-GUESS to Simulate Boreal Fire Ecology and Carbon Dynamics |
| Keith Sullivan | PhD | Mathematical Sciences | Characterizing Robust Dynamic Satellite Networks via Local Communication |
| Sullivan Weston | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence |
VTSGC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2023-2024| Student | Degree Program | Department | Project Title |
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| Kameron Bielawski | PhD | Computer Science | Hierarchically Structured Swarms for Exploration |
| Vivia Fastiggi | PhD | Cellular, Molecular, & Biomedical Sciences | Targeting Bronchial Smooth Muscle Hyperreactivity through Therapeutic Ketosis |
| Jacob Friz-Trillo | MS | Electrical & Biomedical Engineering | Decentralized Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems for Collaborative SLAM |
| Sophie Gessman | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Effects of Humidity, Temperature, and Materials on Dust Mitigation in Space Habitats |
| Benjamin Howe | PhD | Physics | Metal Halide Perovskite Response to Radiation and Temperature Cycling |
| Jeremy Quail | PhD | Mathematical Sciences | Graph Theoretic Tools for Space Networks |
| Alaina S.D. Roberts | PhD | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Real-Time Fatigue Localization in Metallic Structures for Improving Structural Safety |
| Marit Scott | MS | Electrical & Biomedical Engineering | Quantitative MRI Measures of Tibiofemoral Cartilage Strain and Composition to Inform Joint Degeneration Countermeasures in Microgravity |
VTSGC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2022-2023| Student | Degree Program | Department | Project Title |
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| Jack Boynton | MS | Computer Science | Rectification and Tie-Point Matching between Ground Photo Images and Satellite Images |
| William Harvey | MS | Mechanical Engineering | The Overpressurization and Surface Contamination of On-Demand Pressure Systems |
| Jonathan Kerivan | MS | Electrical & Biomedical Engineering | Dynamic Modeling, Fault Detection, and Fault Identification of Resistojet Thrusters |
| Peyton Leinhart | MS | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Methane consumption and nitrous oxide production by microbial communities in landfill-intermediate cover soils |
| Francesca Milazzo | PhD | Chemistry | |
| Hunter Rehm | PhD | Mathematical Sciences | Applications of Centrality Measures |
| Matthew B. Reuter | PhD | Chemistry | |
| Alaina S.D. Roberts | PhD | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Improving Structural Safety with Real-Time Metallic Fatigue Monitoring and Prediction |
VTSGC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2017-2018| Student | Degree Program | Department | Project Title |
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| Brandon Ackley | PhD | Chemistry | Polymer Precursors for Ceramics in 3-D Printing |
| Brittany Carroll | PhD | Cellular, Molecular & Biomedical Sciences | A structural look at an enzyme that protects DNA from ionizing radiation damage |
| Malayika Cincotta | MS | Geology | Soil Aggregates: What role do they play in the generation of dissolved organic carbon? |
| Robert Farrell | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Traction and sinkage on rotating wheelson Martian soil simulant |
| David Hinckley | PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Satellite Formation Optimization for Imaging and Sensing Applications about Small Celestial Bodies |
| Allison Hrycik | PhD | Biology | Combining satellite and in situ measurements to understand winter severity andsummer algal blooms |
| Jimmy Jamison | MS | Electrical Engineering | Measurement, modeling and mitigation of wireless channels within and about a spacecraft |
| Jason Pearl | PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Hybrid gravity models for asteroids with heterogeneous density distributions |
| Leslie Sepaniac | PhD | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics | Different Mechanisms of Micronucleus Formation and Impact to Genomic Stability |
VTSGC GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS 2016-2017| Student | Degree Program | Department | Project Title |
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| Cory Arcovitch | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Thermoelectric Performance of Stretchable Nanowire-based Composite Materials |
| Brittany L. Carroll | PhD | Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, College of Medine | A Structural Look at an Enzyme that Protects DNA from ionizing Radiation Damage |
| Taylor Ducharme | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Bubble Nucleation and Growth Behaviors in an Outer Space Environment |
| Christopher Farnsworth | MS | Computer Software Engineering | Lunar IceCube Flight Software |
| David Hinckley | PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Optimization Strategy Development for the Irregular Small Body Touring Problem |
| Andrew Lombardo | PhD | Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, College of Medine | Physical Challenges to Molecular Motor Cargo Transport |
| Ada Morse | PhD | Mathematics & Statistics | Graph-Theoretical Design Strategies for Self-Assembly |
| Laura Obregon | PhD | Civil Engineering | "Generating and measuring prescribed level of cohesion in soil simulants in support of NASA’s terramechanics research " |
| Jason Pearl | PhD | Mechanical Engineering | Transient Analysis of the Conjugate Heat Transfer in Supersonic Micronozzles with Aerospike Geometrics for Small Satellite Propulsion and Control |
| Andrew Reagan | PhD | Mathematics & Statistics | Quantifying Climate Change Impacts on Temperature Extremes |
| Stephanie Wood | MS | Mechanical Engineering | Gravitational Modeling of Near-Earth Contact Binaries |