Tunkhannock resident Jessica Shaw awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

VILLANOVA, PA (05/19/2010)(readMedia)-- Villanova University is pleased to announce that Jessica Shaw (Tunkhannock, Pa.) has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She is one of two recent Villanova graduates to receive the fellowship this year.

Shaw plans to pursue a PhD in Electrical Engineering at the University of California at Los Angeles with Professor Chan Joshi in the Center for High Frequency Electronics, focusing her research in laser-plasma interactions. Shaw, a Villanova University Presidential Scholar, was an intern last summer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab working at the National Ignition Facility. In addition to the NSF Fellowship, Jessica was also awarded the National Defense Science Engineering Graduate Fellowship and Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship to support her post-graduate studies.

The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. 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 in the U.S. and abroad.

For more information about the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, please visit: http://www.nsfgrfp.org/