BlackboardNSF Has Announced the 2010 GRFP Awardees & Honorable Mentions
FAMU, Electrical Engineering
Ms. Alyse Michelle Taylor, a FAMU Electrical Engineering major, has been awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which is a national award for outstanding grad students.
The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity.
Alyse was asked what advice she could give to students and said, "The best advice I have is to believe in yourself. The classes are hard and sometimes you can get discouraged but it is amazing what you have learned by the time you are in your third and fourth year. You realize wow, you've come a long way."
Alyse is planning to take her interest in Renewable Energy around the world after she pursues her graduate degree. She is interested in taking this technology to the next level and hopes to have a part in reducing our carbon footprint not only in the United States but Worldwide.
Alyse's interest in this field even showed up in her undergraduate Senior Design project where she used her skills to be part of team of students who built a solar car. Her senior design group completed the first phase in a two-year interdisciplinary project with a goal to eventually compete in the North American Solar Challenge (NASC), a 2,400 mile race beginning in the southern part of the United States that finishes up in Calgary, Alberta.
This bright new graduate had praise for the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering. "I can't say enough about how supportive our professors are out here," the FAMU grad went on to say, "Dr. Edrington, Dr. Perry and Dr. Helen Li were all very encouraging to me. They actually let me know about this fellowship and encouraged me to apply. They helped me to believe in myself."
The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based masters and doctoral degrees in the U.S. and abroad. The NSF welcomes applications from all qualified students and strongly encourages under-represented populations, including women, under-represented racial and ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities, to apply for this fellowship.
GRFP Fellows Receive the Following:
- Three years of support
- $30,000 annual stipend
- $10,500 cost-of-education allowance
- $1,000 one time international travel allowance
- TeraGrid Supercomputer access
