Congratulations to student majoring in experimental neuroscience, Rachel Ward. She is one of the fifteen students awarded the Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

The Fralin Undergraduate Research Fellowship program — a competitive award program that is open to all Virginia Tech undergraduates — has awarded 15 fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year. The goal of the program is to increase diversity in research.

“The Fralin Fellowship program helps to remove some of the traditional barriers to undergraduate research and makes it accessible, particularly to underserved student populations. It is really exciting to engage this diverse group of talented students in such a broad variety of research projects—this group truly showcases the broad interpretation of research across campus,” said Keri Swaby, university undergraduate research coordinator.

This is the third year that fellowships have been awarded. Students applied to the program in the late spring and summer of 2018 and are beginning their research projects this fall.

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