Lane awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for biostatistics

March 31, 2016

Andrea Lane

Andrea Lane is one of 19 statistics students in the country to win a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in 2016.

The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program is to help ensure the vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science and engineering.

With this award, Lane, who studies in the biostatistics department of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has earned three years of support for her graduate education.

“The fellowship will support me through graduate school and provide opportunity and flexibility in my research endeavors,” said Lane, who intends to apply her research to the development of a 3-D model of an embryonic heart that would aid in understanding the hemodynamics of cardiogenesis.

“We are absolutely delighted for Andrea,” said Michael R. Kosorok, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and chair of biostatistics at the Gillings School. “It is impressive that she is one of only four biostatistics graduate students nationwide selected for this fellowship. Andrea is an outstanding young scholar, and we are very pleased to have her in our program.”

Lane is the sixth biostatistics student from UNC Gillings to receive an NSF fellowship. She follows in the footsteps of alumni Naomi Brownstein and Sheila Gaynor, along with current graduate students Emily Butler, Erika Helgeson and Shaina Mitchell.

“I am honored to have been chosen as an NSF Fellow and I appreciate the opportunity to pursue a doctorate in biostatistics,” Lane said. “ I share a passion for diversity and inclusion with the NSF, so I am excited to use this award not only to advance scientific research but also to seek ways to increase diversity in my field. I am grateful for the mentorship and guidance I have received that led to this award, and want to pay it forward as a mentor for future generations of scientists.”

The NSF also accorded Honorable Mentions to UNC Gillings biostatistics doctoral student Yue Jiang and undergraduate student Subodh Selukar.

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Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: David Pesci, director of communications, (919) 962-2600 or dpesci@unc.edu