Nearly two dozen students supported by NSF grants

Twenty-two UC Santa Cruz graduate and undergraduate students have been supported by National Science Foundation fellowships in the past academic year.

Those students are:

Roxanne Santina Beltran
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, ecology
Current institution: University of Alaska, Anchorage

Theadora Block
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, ecology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Spencer Charles Castro
Baccalaureate institution: Stanford University
Field of study: Psychology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Jenna Conner
Baccalaureate institution: McNeese State University
Field of study: Life sciences, microbial biology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Andrea Marie Derdzinski
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Physics and astronomy, astronomy and astrophysics
Current institution: Columbia University

Kristen Elsmore
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Geosciences, marine biology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Jennifer Marie Farquhar
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Social sciences, archaeology

Ying Feng
Baccalaureate institution: Pennsylvania State University
Field of study: Physics and astronomy, astronomy and astrophysics
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Kaitlin Leigh Hellier
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Physics and astronomy, condensed matter physics

Erin Suzan Isbilen
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Psychology, cognitive
Current institution: Cornell University

Lillian Rose Kenner
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, structural biology
Current institution: UCSF

Kelsey Nicole Kraus
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Social sciences, linguistics
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Elizabeth Ariadne Lagesse
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, biophysics
Current institution: Johns Hopkins University

Christopher Law
Baccalaureate institution: UC San Diego
Field of study: Life sciences, organismal biology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Athena Lin
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, cell biology
Current institution: UCSF

Kimberley Kanani Mayfield
Baccalaureate institution: University of Hawaii Manoa
Field of study: Geosciences, biogeochemistry
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Nina McCurdy
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Computer science, graphics and visualization
Current institution: University of Utah

Katherine Nicole McElroy
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Life sciences, ecology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Shelley Sianta
Baccalaureate institution: Colorado State University
Field of study: Life sciences, evolutionary biology
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Melinda Marie Soares
Baccalaureate institution: UC Santa Cruz
Field of study: Physics and astronomy, astronomy and astrophysics
Current institution: Princeton University

Alexa Villaume
Baccalaureate institution: Bennington College
Field of study: Physics and astronomy, astronomy and astrophysics
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz

Rachel Charlene Voss
Baccalaureate institution: American University
Field of study: Social sciences, geography
Current institution: UC Santa Cruz