{"id":206091,"date":"2018-04-05T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/?p=206091"},"modified":"2018-04-06T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T17:21:53","slug":"alum-wins-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/2018\/04\/05\/alum-wins-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth and Environmental Science alum wins National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>NSF fellowships are awarded to students who demonstrate the potential to be future leaders and innovators in their fields. The\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship<\/a>\u00a0award provides 3-years of tuition and stipend support.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Verhagen&#8217;s doctoral research is in the fields of paleomagnetism and planetary science at Rutgers University, where her thesis research focuses on the Chicxulub Impact Crater, the physical record of the Cretaceous\/Paleogene impact event that occurred 66 million years ago. Verhagen is part of an international team deciphering the record of this seminal event in Earth&#8217;s history using a drill core collected during <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iodp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP)<\/a> and International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Expedition 364.\u00a0 Verhagen uses paleomagnetism to study impact processes such as impact heating, shock, and post-impact hydrothermalism.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>NSF graduate research fellowships are highly competitive, with a total of 2000 fellowships awarded annually to students in Science, Engineering, and Social Science graduate programs. The <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfgrfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NSF-GRF competition<\/a> is open to graduating seniors and to graduate students who are at the beginning of their program. Applications are due in late October-early November. ÌÇÐÄvlog students who are interested in applying for an NSF graduate research fellowship are encouraged to contact <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"mailto:brachfelds@montclair.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Brachfeld, Acting Associate Dean of CSAM<\/a>, who serves as the NSF-GRF Resource Faculty member for ÌÇÐÄvlog.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Verhagen, BS-EAES 2017, and current PhD student at Rutgers University is one of 2000 students nationwide to win a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship\u00a0(NSF-GRF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":206092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206096,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206091\/revisions\/206096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/earth-and-environmental-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}