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OU student Erica Brown gets fellowship
Erica Brown, a University of Oklahoma honors student from Oklahoma City, has been awarded a 2010 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The award offers $30,000 per 12-month fellowship year for a maximum of three years.
Brown has a 3.95 grade point average and will graduate summa cum laude in May with a degree in chemical engineering after being named a Goldwater Scholar last year. She plans to pursue a doctorate in biomedical engineering at Duke University.
“The well-deserved fellowship being awarded to Erica Brown is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the entire country that can be given to an undergraduate science or engineering student,” said OU President David Boren.
Her research experience includes work with stem cells in tissue engineering at OU and a National Science Foundation-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates internship at Cornell University to create a biodegradable nanofiber mesh for tissue engineering purposes.
She has given numerous presentations at OU, Cornell and national conferences in St. Louis and Philadelphia.
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