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June 2, 2004

Student News:
Boise State Alum Melissa Ray Wins NSF Graduate Fellowship

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Melissa Ray of Orofino, who graduated from Boise State University in 2003 with a degree in mechanical engineering, has been granted a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. This highly competitive award will allow Ray to begin graduate school in the fall at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she will perform research in wind and other renewable energy technologies. Meanwhile, she is touring New Zealand for six months. In her undergraduate years at Boise State, Ray received recognition for her leadership and academic accomplishments. She was honored as a 2003 Top Ten Scholar by the Boise State Alumni Association. She was a member of the Honors College, a Brown Honors scholar and the recipient of the Idaho Society of Professional Engineers 2003 Co-Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Student Award. Working with the Honors Student Association, she helped organize the first Locks of Love Cut-Off to provide wigs for children with medical hair loss. Ray, the daughter of Wendy and Tom Ray, graduated from Orofino High School in 1998. -30- Media contact Pat Pyke communications and marketing 208 426-1987

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