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Nick Heller, PhD candidate in Computer Science, has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) for 2021-2022.

The DDF gives the University's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates an opportunity to devote full-time effort to an outstanding research project by providing time to finalize and write a dissertation during the fellowship year.

The award includes...

PhD student Lizzy Crist was awarded a 2021-22 Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, which supports outstanding University of Minnesota PhD students who are engaged in interdisciplinary research.

Lizzy is developing a 3D microfluidic device that models breast cancer metastasis, the process of cancer cells spreading throughout a patient’s body. A highly tunable in...