US science graduates selected for Australian research program

April 12, 2015

Thirty young science and engineering graduates from the United States have been selected for a special research program in Australia.

The East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program enables American students to visit Australia for eight weeks during the American summer, to undertake research and build relationships with their Australian counterparts.

The program, which has been organised by the Academy in collaboration with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) for the past decade, will start on 23 June with an orientation in Canberra.

The following students were selected:
EAPSI Fellow	Home institution	Australian host researcher	Australian host institution
Shelly Arreguin	University of Washington	Professor John Drennan	The University of Queensland
Elise Bell	University of Arizona	Dr Brett Baker	The University of Melbourne
Abhizna Butchibabu	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Professor Liz Sonenberg	The University of Melbourne
Benjamin Faber	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Dr Hua Xia	Australian National University
Benjamin Fellows	Clemson University	Professor Tim St Pierre	The University of Western Australia
Stephen Ferguson	University of Memphis	Dr Simon Griffith	Macquarie University
Rebecca Frank	University of Michigan	Dr Joanne Evans	Monash University
Morgan Gilmour	University of California Santa Cruz	Dr Jennifer Lavers	University of Tasmania
Lillian Hancock	Brown University	Professor Joseph Holtum	James Cook University
Sarah Kostinski	Harvard University	Professor Yuri Kivshar FAA	Australian National University
Patrice Kurnath	University of Utah	Professor William Foley	Australian National University
Justin Lawrence	University of Mississippi	Professor Michael Mahony	The University of Newcastle
David Lick	University of California Los Angeles	Professor Gillian Rhodes	The University of Western Australia
Shelley Liu	Harvard University	Professor Matt Wand	University of Technology, Sydney
May-Ling Lu	University of California Riverside	A/Professor Daniel Tan	The University of Sydney
Anthony Lucio	The University of Iowa	Professor Alan Bond FAA	Monash University
Gina Magnotti	Georgia Institute of Technology	Professor Michael Brear	The University of Melbourne
Caitlin McDonald	Cornell University	Dr Lee Berger	James Cook University
Jay Pantone	University of Florida	Professor Anthony Guttmann	The University of Melbourne
Emma Reed	University of Arizona	Dr Janice Lough	Australian Institute of Marine Science
Leah Reidenbach	California State University, Northridge	A/Professor Catriona Hurd	University of Tasmania
Nathaniel Richmond	The University of Iowa	Dr Dmytro Matsypura	The University of Sydney
Maura Sateriale	University of Hawaii	A/Professor Richard Manasseh	Swinburne University of Technology
Laura Shishkovsky	Michigan State University	Dr James Miller-Jones	Curtin University
Garrett Swan	Pennsylvania State University	Professor David Shum	Griffith University
James Titus-McQuillan	University of Texas at Arlington	Dr Craig Moritz	Australian National University
Laura Treible	University of North Carolina Wilmington	A/Professor Kylie Pitt	Griffith University
Sarah Trimble	Texas A&M University	A/Professor Rob Brander	University of New South Wales
Natasa Vulic	Arizona State University	Dr Stephen Bremner	University of New South Wales
Rachel Wooliver	University of Tennessee	Professor Brad Potts	University of Tasmania

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US science graduates selected for Australian research program