Recipient: NSF GRFP Fellowship

Year: 2018

Amina Grant is using the GRFP Fellowship to investigate the presence of lead, copper, and arsenic in Iowa drinking water systems. She intends to make all her research data easily available to Iowans, so they can have a tool to assess their water quality and respond to recommendations on how to avoid future lead, copper, and arsenic releases.

Grant believes the fellowship indicates how serious she is about her research as a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s Sustainable Water Development Program.

“For me, it fortified the impact of my core skills as a graduate student--from being a critical thinker to effectively communicating my research to the public--and acknowledged my position in my field,” Grant says. “This fellowship will help me break from any constraints on my research directions.”