Recipient: NSF GRFP Fellowship

Year: 2018

As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Katherine Lazenby plans to explore her research interests and develop her identity as a researcher independent of her advisor’s funded projects.

“(The fellowship) has given me the opportunity to take more classes, travel to conferences, and initiate relationships with other researchers,” Lazenby says.

Her research focuses on how students use and understand the role of mathematical models in the study of chemistry.

Thanks to the NSF-GRFP funding, she will study student discourse in the classroom and how instruction can support students’ understanding of the role of mathematical models in chemistry.