Calum Shelden Receives a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

Please join us in celebrating ECE Ph.D. student, Calum Shelden, as a recipient of a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines. The five-year fellowship includes three years of financial support including an annual stipend of $34,000 and a cost of education allowance of $12,000 to the institution.

Calum has been a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Program under the mentorship of Prof. Jeremy Munday. His research project involves the investigation of non-equilibrium Casimir forces hoping to realize, for the first time, quantum repulsion in air on a scale relevant to nanodevices