Jacqueline Wentz has been awarded a 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded to graduate students pursuing research-based Master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The program received 17,000 applications and granted 2,000 awards. The fellowship provides $34,000 per year for three years. Jacqueline received a Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering and Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She currently is an Interdisciplinary Quantitative (IQ) Biology graduate student at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and is working with Professor David Bortz.