Jenélle Dowling ‘07, Biological Sciences, Awarded NSF Fellowship

Jenélle Dowling ‘07, biological sciences, has been awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship. Dowling worked in the Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Kevin Omland lab group for three years doing fieldwork in Maryland and Mexico. She was a Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award Winner, which led to a first authored peer-reviewed publication. She is now a first year Ph.D. student at Cornell University, working at the well-known Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. The NSF Fellowship provides a generous stipend and research money for three years.