Two UNMC graduate students at the Munroe-Meyer Institute received fellowships for the 2026-27 school year.
Lily Calvin was selected to be a Presidential Graduate Fellow at the University of Nebraska. The prestigious award comes with a stipend and tuition waiver with the expectation that Calvin concentrates full-time on her studies.
Marisol Loza Hernandez was one of three University of Nebraska students named to its Graduate Scholars Program. The program awards one-year fellowships worth up to $25,000 to a maximum of four NU doctoral students every year.
It supports high-quality research from a variety of fields – including health, education, social work, music, art, psychology, the neurosciences and others. Hernandez’s project is titled “A Community-Based Group Training Program for Spanish-Speaking Caregivers of Young Children with Autism: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Acceptability.” Her mentor is Mary Halbur, PhD, an assistant professor at MMI’s integrated Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders.