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Stacy Pustulka of West Seneca, NY, was awarded a 2008 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees in mathematical, physical, biological engineering, or behavioral and social sciences, including the history of science.

Stacey graduated Summa Cum Laude from UB in December 2007 with a BS in chemical engineering and a minor in biotechnology. As an undergraduate, she performed research in the areas of tissue engineering and metabolic engineering. Stacey served as an officer in UB’s Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and was the first Chair of the Society for Biological Engineering at the university. Her leadership in these organizations, along with her academic accomplishments, earned wide recognition, including the AIChE’s 2006 Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship and the 2007 Outstanding Senior Award from the Buffalo chapter of AIChE. She also received a Dean’s Fellowship and a James C. Meade Graduate Fellowship from Carnegie Mellon University, where she will begin her Ph.D. studies in chemical engineering this fall. At Carnegie Mellon, her primary research area will focus on tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.