New NSF winners

New NSF winners in spring 2016

Three LUC students/recent alumni win 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships:

Katherine Bruder ’16,‌ is an evolutionary biology major and advisee of Dr. Catherine Putonti.  She will begin her doctoral research this coming fall at the University of South Florida, to study bacteriophages in freshwater springs.

‌Michaela Mozley ’15‌, is currently a first-year doctoral student at the University of Utah in Clinical Psychology, as an advisee of Dr. Patricia Kerig.  She is studying how experiences of trauma contribute to involvement in the juvenile justice system; specifically,how trauma may potentially relate to the development of callous-unemotional traits and more severe offending. 

Aaron Kirkman ’12,‌ is currently working for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, having completed a double major in Economics and Math & Computer Science at Loyola. He will continue research begun as an advisee of Dr. Timothy Classen as a doctoral student in Economics at Northwestern University, studying the effects of government policy on individual health as well as the structure of healthcare- and healthcare-related markets.

We are also pleased to announce four Honorable Mentions for the GRFP:

Emily Sible ’16, is currently an LUC student majoring in Molecular Biology, planning to earn a graduate degree in Environmental Biology.

Cassondra Batz '14, who earned her BA in psychology, is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Purdue University.

Ligin Solamen ’14, who earned her BS in Bioinformatics at Loyola, is now pursuing a graduate degree at Dartmouth.

Megan Baumann ’08, who was a double major in Sociology and History here at Loyola, is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Penn State University in Geography.

Congratulations to All Students on These Exceptional NSF Achievements!