Three graduate students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy have been awarded scholarships from the University of Iowa Graduate College.

Michael Hite and Sarah Choate have been awarded the Ballard and Seashore Fellowship. This fellowship program provides an opportunity for Ph.D. students to benefit from a final semester of protected and supported time to focus on completing their scholarly research activities and writing their dissertations.  They will each be given an $11,000 one-time fellowship award. 

Hite is working with Prof. Yannick Meurice modeling lattice gauge theories on both classical and quantum computers. Choate is working with Prof. Jane Nachtman, measuring the neutrino magnetic moment in the NOvA Near Detector.

Dylan Blend was awarded the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship, which provides an opportunity for advanced Ph.D. students to benefit from protected and supported time to pursue their scholarly research activities. The fellowship, which provides recipients with a $11,000 stipend, is intended to recognize students with distinguished academic achievement during their early graduate training. 

Blend’s research advisors are Professors Jane Nachtman and Yasar Onel. He will be an experimental particle physicist and is currently involved in the CMS Outer Tracker Phase II Upgrade and DUNE experiment, Liquid Argon TPC