Application workshops pay off with a record number of National Science Foundation Fellowship successes for USC students, including more than two dozen USC Dornsife undergraduates, graduate students and alumni.
Doctoral student Sari Siegel has been awarded a leading fellowship for her pioneering research into the largely unexplored history of Jewish prisoner-physicians in Nazi camps during World War II.
With a new book out on the history of armies in ancient Egypt, Christelle Fischer-Bovet of classics will continue her research on the Ptolemaic dynasty with the support of two prestigious fellowships.
USC Dornsife’s Susan Forsburg has been honored with a fellowship from the American Academy of Microbiology for her cancer research.
Sonya Lee of art history, East Asian languages and cultures, and religion is awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship for specialized training in conservation science for her research on Chinese cave temples from an ecological perspective.
The assistant professor of computational biology in USC Dornsife said the $50,000 award will help him to advance his studies integrating genomics and structural biology.
USC Dornsife’s 2011 Fulbright recipients prepare for their international research and teaching assistantships.
