{"id":975,"date":"2015-04-02T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brl.ee.washington.edu\/?p=975"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:02:47","slug":"brl-students-receive-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/2015\/04\/02\/brl-students-receive-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"BRL Students Receive NSF GRFP and NDSEG Fellowships!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWe’ve received great news for three BioRobotics lab affiliated students who each received a new fellowship this week! Two students, EE graduate student Katherine Pratt and undergrad alum Andrew Hill, each received a\u00a0NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Margaret Thompson, an EE graduate student, received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to all three of them!<\/p>\n

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\"mthompson_headshot\"Current BRL graduate student Margaret Thompson graduated in 2014 from Harvey Mudd College with a degree in engineering. Her current work with Professor Chizeck in the BioRobotics Lab is designing novel brain-computer interface (BCI) platforms using long-term, fully implanted deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes which were originally designed to treat movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. Read more about her work here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"kpratt_headshot\"Katherine Pratt graduated in 2008 from MIT with a degree in aerospace engineering.\u00a0 She worked at Blue Origin in systems engineering prior to entering active duty as an officer in the US Air Force.\u00a0 Most of her service was spent at Edwards AFB as a member of the operational test team for the F-35; she concentrated on pilot systems and cockpit integration.\u00a0 After leaving the military, she worked with Adrian KC Lee at UW (LABS^N), running spatio-temporal behavioral, EEG, and M\/EEG experiments.\u00a0 For the past academic year she has been a participant in the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering’s program that facilitates veterans returning to academia.\u00a0 Her current work with Professor Chizeck\u00a0 is in the BioRobotics Lab is developing touchscreen control using EMG and other neural signals for individuals without sufficient finger dexterity to operate smart phones, tablets and similar devices.<\/p>\n

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\"andrew_hill\"Andrew Hill is\u00a0a UW Bioengineering undergraduate alumni. He worked in the Biorobotics Lab from 2010\u00a0to 2012, where he did a year long senior capstone design project under the supervision of Professors Chizeck and Hannaford. After graduating in 2012, he then worked as an engineer at Tekscan, Inc. for one year followed by another year as a genomics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital\/Broad Institute in Boston, returning to UW in 2014 as a graduate student in Genome Sciences.<\/p>\n

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Read more about the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program here.<\/a><\/p>\n

More information about the\u00a0National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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We’ve received great news for three BioRobotics lab affiliated students who each received a new fellowship this week! Two students, EE graduate student Katherine Pratt and undergrad alum Andrew Hill, each received a\u00a0NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Margaret Thompson, an EE graduate student, received the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to all three … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/brl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}