Rachael Barza '05 Receives National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Rachael Barza, '05, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, which provides up to about $40,000 a year for up to three years of graduate study. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students with the expectation that they will become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, and innovations in science and engineering. Barza, who majored in economics and mathematics, will enter Harvard in September as a Ph.D. candidate in economics.
As a junior, Rachael was awarded the Beinecke Scholarship, which provides a total of $32,000 worth of support, including up to $15,000 for each of up to two years of graduate study. While at Barnard, she also won the Katharine E. Provost Memorial Prize for superior work by an economics undergraduate, the Alena Wels Hirschorn Prize for the best essay by a senior on a subject of domestic or international economics (co-recipient), and the George Welwood Murray Graduate Fellowship for study in the humanities and/or social sciences (co-recipient).
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