Sabrena Rutledge, graduate student in the Tuteja Lab, is one of four Iowa State University graduate students selected to receive a total of $40,000 in Brown Graduate Fellowship Program funding supporting strategic university research for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Established in 2011 and administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research (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. These research emphases 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.
The complete article, "2025-2026 Brown Graduate Fellowship cohort announced," is available on the Iowa State Research website.