Congratulations to first-year CSE graduate student Natalie Parde on winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Natalie is the first student to win this award in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is the nation’s flagship program directly supporting graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is $32,000 per year for up to three years, as well as $12,000 for each of those years for tuition at UNT. Natalie’s research "Building a Better Agent: The Next Generation of Teachable-Agent Technology" is under the guidance of Dr. Rodney Nielsen, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.