Congratulations David Harper!!
One of our Physics graduating seniors, David Harper, has been awarded an NSF GRFP (Graduate research fellowship program) which provides financial support ($37k/year) for the first 3 years of graduate school. He will be in the EE program at UT Austin starting in the Fall.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced that it has made offers and will award 2,500 Graduate Research Fellowships for the 2026-2027 academic year to outstanding graduate students across the United States who are pursuing research-based degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Offer recipients were selected from a highly competitive pool of nearly 14,000 applicants nationwide, representing all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, based on their intellectual merit and broader impacts, including their potential to contribute to scientific innovation.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is one of the nation's most prestigious fellowship programs, providing three years of financial support, over five years, to graduate students who have demonstrated potential for significant achievements in research. For more than 75 years, GRFP has played a critical role in developing the talent pipeline required for sustaining U.S. leadership in science.
https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-2026-graduate-research-fellowship-program