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Prestigious 2023 NSF GRFPs awarded to LTU Alumni

April 28, 2023

The Department of Natural Sciences at Lawrence Technological University (LTU) is happy and proud to announce that two of our recent science graduates, Andrea Houck and John Boowen, now graduate students elsewhere, were offered the 2023 awards in the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF GRFP award is a prestigious and highly competitive fellowship with a roughly 16% annual acceptance rate from among more than 12,000 applicants. The five-year fellowship provides three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000, according to the National Science Foundation.


Andrea Houck

(Photo Credit: https://qiml.radiology.wisc.edu/staff/houck-andrea)

Andrea Houck is the LTU 2021-2022 Edward Donley Distinguished Graduate Award recipient. Andrea graduated LTU in May 2022, with degrees in physics and mathematics. The same year she started a Ph.D. program in medical physics in the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Andrea is now a first year graduate research assistant at University of Wisconsin – Madison.


John Bowen

(Photo Credit: John Bowen

John Bowen graduated LTU in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology and minors in Chemistry and Mathematics. He spent one year at the University of Washington, Seattle, working on SARS-CoV-2 structural biology in the lab of Dr. David Veesler. He is now a graduate student in the David Rockefeller Ph.D. program in Bioscience at the Rockefeller University, New York.


About NSF GRFP

Being chosen as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow is a significant national accomplishment and places graduate students among an elite group of Fellows, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers in STEM or STEM education. The purpose of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) is to ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States. GRFP seeks to broaden participation in science and engineering of underrepresented groups, including women, minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans.

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Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom

  • What you will need to have and do
  • Download the mobile Zoom app (either App Store or Google Play)
  • Have your phone plugged in
  • Set up video stand phone holder

From Computer

Log in and start your Zoom session with participants

From Phone

  • Start the Zoom session on your phone app (suggest setting your phone to “Do not disturb” since your phone screen will be seen in Zoom)
  • Type in the Meeting ID and Join
  • Do not use phone audio option to avoid feedback
  • Select “share content” and “screen” to share your cell phone’s screen in your Zoom session
  • Select “start broadcast” from Zoom app. The home screen of your cell phone is now being shared with your participants.

To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera

  • Open (swipe to switch apps) and select the camera app on your phone
  • Start in photo mode and aim the camera at whatever materials you would like to share
  • This is where you will have to position what you want to share to get the best view – but you will see ‘how you are doing’ in the main Zoom session.