Alumnus Reyes Wins 2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
PULLMAN, Wash. – Julian Reyes (’10, Civil Engineering and Honors), has received an award with the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the GRFP has a long-held history of high-achieving recipients. According to the NSF’s program website, past fellows include numerous Nobel Prize winners, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Google founder Sergey Brin, and Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt.
The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.
As a fellow, Reyes, a WSU Ph.D student in civil engineering, will receive three years of support, including a $30,000 annual stipend, $12,000 cost-of-education allowance to the institution, international research and professional development opportunities, as well as TeraGrid Supercomputer access.
The fellowship focuses on research development. For Reyes, whose research interests include modeling of nitrogen cycling within grassland (managed and unmanaged) systems at different spatial scales, from plot level to regional scale and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, the fellowship is relevant to his current work as well as his future Ph.D. plans. From August 2011 to July 2012, Reyes was a Fulbright Scholar researching at the University of Bonn in Germany.
Reyes has also received the National Science Foundation Nitrogen Systems: Policy-oriented Integrated Research and Education (IGERT NSPIRE) grant (2011), a Fulbright Grant from the U.S. Department of State (2011), Outstanding Senior award in the College of Engineering and Architecture (WSU, 2010), and the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society fellowship (2010).
Reyes is a graduate research assistant in multi-scale land surface hydrology (MSLSH) at WSU and has worked as an engineering intern in the environmental department at BP Cherry Point Refinery in Blaine, Wash. (2009). He has also worked as a research assistant for the department of waste engineering at the University of Kassel in Germany as well as held a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research in Science and Engineering (RISE) intership
The NSF site describes the vitality of the GRFP program as “these individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation’s technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.”
MEDIA CONTACT: Deven Tokuno, Communications Assistant, Honors College at WSU, 509-335-8070, deven.tokuno@email.wsu.edu