April 2009 > Students > Honors

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First-Year POME Student Rewarded with NSF Fellowship

Jeremy Bearer-Friend, a first-year doctoral student in POME, has been selected to receive a 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) award, a three-year, $30,000 per annum fellowship.

According to the program announcement, "NSF Fellows are expected to become knowledge experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals will be crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation's technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic well-being of society at large."

Bearer-Friend plans to research the political environment of education policymaking. "Education policy choices aren't just made based on evidence," said Bearer-Friend. "Policy choices are made based on politics, and that's the process I study." His current work focuses on vocational education and reentry planning for formerly incarcerated adults. W. Norton Grubb is his GSE advisor.

"I'm overjoyed and surprised,” said Bearer-Friend, who graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2006. “This funding really allows me to devote more time to my research.”

 

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