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Atlanta, GA | Posted: September 25, 2015
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Three of the eight students chosen to receive highly selective 2015 awards from the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) are from the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.
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Sloan ScholarsThree of the eight students chosen to receive highly selective 2015 awards from the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) are from the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering.
Hisham Ali, Brett Hiller, and Eugina Mendez Ramos were selected to receive the prestigious scholarships, worth about $90,000 in total, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Doctoral students Hisham Ali and Brett Hiller received Sloan Fellowships, which afford recipients an annual $10K stipend to complete their graduate studies, plus another $10K to cover professional development expenses, including books, journals, professional travel and research costs.
"Hisham has outstanding scholarly potential and is an outstanding candidate for this award," said Dr. Robert Braun, Ali's faculty advisor.
Eugina Mendez Ramo received the Georgia Tech University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (GT-UCEM) scholarship, which will provide her with a $10,000 stipend to pay for professional development expenses.
Hiller's and Ramos's advisor, Regents Professor Dimitri Mavris, was proud but not surprised by the recognition received by his proteges.
"Brett and Eugina are both hard-working, very dedicated students who show a good deal of initiative and creativity in their work," said Mavris. "It's great to see them rewarded with something that will help them go even further."
The Sloan Foundation Scholarship seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from under-represented populations. It provides three years of support for students who have recently completed the Ph.D. Qualifying/ Preliminary exams.
