2013 Hertz Fellows Announced (news item)

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<p>The</a> Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Awards Quarter Million Dollar Graduate Fellowships to New Fellows; Young Women Constitute Almost Half of 2013 Cohort -- Leaders in Applied Physical, Biological and Engineering Sciences</p>

<p>“The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced the 2013 Hertz Fellows. From over 700 applicants, 15 were selected to receive the Hertz Fellowship, considered to be the nation's most generous support for graduate education in the applied physical, biological and engineering sciences. The Hertz Fellowship is valued at more than $250,000 per student, with support lasting up to five years. Fellows have the freedom to innovate in their doctoral studies without most traditional research funding restrictions.</p>

<p>"As we announce this year's selection, we are pleased to point out that nearly half of the new Fellows are young women," stated Dr. Jay Davis, Hertz Foundation President. "This is a significant part of an historic trend in the Hertz Fellowship Community. Hertz Fellows have led this trend in our nation, as well, beginning with Margaret Fels, Hertz Fellow 1965. She was among the earliest Fellows in our five-decade history and became the first female faculty member in the engineering department at Princeton. Fels was dedicated to making science fun for many women elementary school teachers and the young students they taught."</p>

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<p>The Hertz Fellowship is the most generous graduate fellowship in the field of science with a total value of $250,000.00 per Fellow and only 15 recipients are chosen each year. Generally, about half of them are already in graduate school and because the foundation doesn’t specifically report undergraduate alma maters, compiling a table over many years is almost impossible.</p>

<p>Two years ago, Princeton led the nation in Hertz Fellows, sharing the top spot for undergraduate alma maters with MIT and Stanford. This year Princeton came in second with two undergraduate Hertz Fellows while Harvard undergraduates led the nation with six. After Princeton’s two Fellows, there were seven other schools that had one each.</p>

<p>2013 Hertz Fellows
(undergraduate alma maters)</p>

<p>6---Harvard
2---Princeton
1—-Caltech, MIT, USC, Haverford, Oberlin, Wellesley, Berkeley</p>

<p>Princeton’s Hertz Fellows this year were Aman Sinha ’13 and Amy Ousterhout ’13. Aman will follow Princeton with a stint at Cambridge University on a Hertz Fellowship before returning to the U.S. to study electrical engineering at Stanford. Amy will start on her doctorate in computer science at MIT next year. A third Princetonian who won the award this year is first year graduate student Daniel Strouse GS in Princeton’s physics department. Daniel did his undergraduate work at USC before coming to Princeton.</p>

<p>Sinha</a> '13, Ousterhout '13, Strouse GS receive Hertz Fellowships - The Daily Princetonian</p>

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<p>PtonGrad2000, can you do a thread for the Truman Scholars this year? I believe this year’s winners are now posted on the site’s home page. Your dedication to making these threads is truly admirable.</p>

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<p>I’m planning to do so.</p>