Ilea passes her qualifying exam and is awarded NSF fellowship!

It has been a significant two weeks for Ilea. First, she successfully passed her qualifying exam. Her dissertation research will focus on the bacterial contribution to resistance in tomato. Second, Ilea was awarded the prestigious NSF graduate research fellowship for her doctoral work! The NSF GRPG provides three years of support for PhD studies. NSF received over 12000 applications and awarded 2000 fellowships. Congratulations Ilea on these significant accomplishments!

Posted 4/4/2018.