The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) recently announced 12 ISU graduate students will receive $120,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding to support strategic university research over the next year. Two of the 12 students are genetics, development and cell biology (GDCB) graduate students: Jacinta Correia in the Bai lab and Brian Zebosi in the Vollbrecht lab.

Established in 2011 and administered by the OVPR, the annual Brown Graduate Fellowship Program is used to advance Iowa State research in the areas of study covered by the Valentine Hammes Family and Leopold Hammes Brown Family Trust, which include science, agriculture, and space science. Each year, an internal review committee selects a group of Ph.D. or master’s degree students from across the university to receive $10,000 each in institutional funding, which can be used to enhance existing fellowships, partially fund a fellowship, or assist with recruitment of new graduate students.

Learn more about Correia, Zebosi and the other ISU graduate student recipients in the OVPR article.