Brian Jordan awarded IBM PhD Fellowship

The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced that chemistry graduate student Brian Jordan has been awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship by IBM Corporation.  The award provides a $17,500 stipend as well as tuition and academic fees for one year, with the opportunity for renewal for a total of three years.  It also includes the opportunity for a summer project with IBM under the mentorship of a senior member of IBM’s research community.

“This highly competitive award recognizes exemplary scholarship and research potential in a limited number of doctoral students each year, so we were extremely pleased to hear that Brian is receiving this fellowship,” said Dr. Vincent Rotello, who nominated Jordan on behalf of the University.

Echoing these sentiments, Prof. Bret Jackson, department head of Chemistry said, “Brian Jordan exemplifies the excellence that permeates our research in the Department of Chemistry.  We congratulate Brian for this fine achievement, and look for many others in Chemistry to follow in his footsteps.”

A native of Andover, Massachusetts, Jordan studies redox-modulated molecular recognition and the potential application of these electrochemically controllable interactions in sensors and tunable read-write devices.  He has been an IGERT Fellow in UMass Amherst’s interdisciplinary program in nanoscale device development since 2005, and also leads a campus nanotechnology student organization.

(May 2007)