Graduate student David Beaudry is awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and will receive annual stipends as well as opportunities for international research and professional development. David is a first-year doctoral student from Fort Walton Beach, Florida studying under Professor Mitra Taheri. He graduated from the University of Florida with bachelor’s degrees in materials science and engineering, and physics. Beaudry was recognized by NSF for his research on improving corrosion and deformation behavior of refractory high entropy alloys for jet turbine applications. He credits his undergraduate research adviser Professor Gerhard Fuchs, his internship adviser Keith Knipling, and his current PhD adviser, Professor Mitra Taheri with inspiring him to pursue high-temperature metallurgy and advanced characterization techniques. He hopes to someday work at a Department of Defense lab solving defense-related physical metallurgy problems.

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