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April 2010 > Students > Honors
Two Doctoral Students Receive NSF Research Fellowships
Connie Wun, a second-year doctoral student in Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation (POME); and Jennifer King Chen, a second-year doctoral student in Education in Math, Science and Technology (EMST), have each been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF). NSF Fellows receive a three-year annual $30,000 stipend and allowance of $10,500 for tuition and fees, as well as a one-time award of $1,000 for international travel.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship program “recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines,” according to the program announcement. “NSF Fellows are anticipated to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation's technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large.”
Wun, who is also a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellow and a Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative (BDRI) Fellow, is studying the relationship between violence, violence prevention policies and race in schools. Her primary adviser is associate professor Daniel Perlstein, and she has also been supported by assistant professor Zeus Leonardo and BDRI advisers and GSE faculty Janelle Scott and Na'ilah Nasir.
King Chen, the recipient of a University Fellowship as well as the Robert Foo Memorial Fellowship, is interested in studying metacognition — the awareness, knowledge and control of one’s own cognitive processes. She plans to investigate how curriculum and instruction fostering students’ development and use of metacognition can help them to generate more sophisticated explanations when learning about complex scientific phenomena. King Chen’s advisors are professors Barbara White and Marcia Linn.
GSE now has three GRF Fellows. Jeremy Bearer-Friend, a second-year doctoral student in POME, received a GRF award last year.
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