Spanish major wins National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

For the second time in SUNY Geneseo history, an undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Shayne O’Brien, a senior Applied Mathematics and Spanish major, will be the recipient of a 2017 award in Computer/IS/Machine Learning.  The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides three years of financial support within a five-year fellowship period for graduate study leading to a research-based master’s or doctoral degree in science or engineering.  Last year's winner Grant Kusick, a Spanish minor, was the first Geneseo undergraduate to receive the award from the highly regarded federal agency that supports research and education in non-medical fields and is presently in a graduate program and a life sciences/microbial biology lab at Johns Hopkins University.