CONWAY, Ark. (April 2, 2014) – Hendrix alumni Erik Gron
Urban and Jennifer Lenow have been awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate
Fellowships.
Urban, a 2013 Hendrix graduate, was a chemical physics
major and Spanish minor. He received the Goldwater Scholarship as a Hendrix
student. Urban is in his first year of graduate study at University of
California at Berkeley, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics.
Lenow, a 2012 Hendrix graduate and psychology major, received the fellowship to study cognitive neuroscience at New York University.
This highly prestigious award provides financial support
for graduate students in STEM fields for three years. According to the NSF
website, only 2,000 awards were offered this year from out of more than
14,000 applications received.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.