External Fellowship recipients for 2026-27 academic year
Congratulations to the recipients of a prestigious external fellowship for the upcoming academic year! There are many prestigious and competitive external fellowships that UMN graduate students can apply to and receive annually, and the following are administered by the Graduate School’s Office of Graduate Fellowships and Awards: National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US), the Google PhD Fellowship, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Smithsonian Institute Fellowships, and the Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship.
Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship has become a nationally recognized award that distinguishes recipients within their fields. Newcombe Fellows are often at the forefront of creative and original scholarship, proposing new insights and ground-breaking work in the questions and conversations surrounding religion, ethics, and values.
Vishal Jamkar
Graduate Program: Public Affairs
Dissertation: Moral Stamina & Ethics of Retrieval: Caste, Land, and State-making in Western India
NSF CSGrad4US
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US) encourages applications for early-career individuals to pursue a research-based doctoral degree in computer and information science and engineering.
Ashley Bissell
Graduate Program: Computer Science
NSF GRFP
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) was established to recruit and support individuals who demonstrate the potential to make significant contributions in STEM. The purpose of the NSF GRFP is to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineering workforce, and the multi-year fellowship is awarded to outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time, research-based masters and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering or math or STEM education.
Esteban Ayala
Graduate Program: Mathematics
Nicholas Chang
Graduate Program: Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Ethan Chavarin
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Leo Corral
Graduate Program: Sociology
Cormac Feeley
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Calvin Firth
Graduate Program: Physics
Risha Goel
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Alyssa Hicks
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Natalie Keating
Graduate Program: Earth Sciences
Clarissa Moore
Graduate Program: Conservation Sciences
Vivek Nair
Graduate Program: Materials Science and Engineering
Isabella Saldana Haworth
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Allison Szalay
Graduate Program: Biomedical Engineering
Maren Thompson
Graduate Program: Chemical Engineering
Ana Katrina Tiu
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Anthony Witt
Graduate Program: Chemistry
Paige Yeung
Graduate Program: Mathematics