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According to an April 1 NSF press release, NSF announced 2000 recipients of the Graduate Research Fellowships (GRF). 11 of these were awarded to statistics students. Congratulations to these 2014 recipients: ​

Name	Baccalaureate Institution	Field of Study	Current Institution
Bodwin, Kelly Nicole	Harvard University	Statistics	UNC Chapel Hill
Chan, Jeffrey Dean-Will	MIT	Computational Statistics	MIT
Gasca, Natalie C.	Cal Poly- Pomona	Biostatistics	University of Washington
Helgeson, Erika	Gonzaga University	Biostatistics	UNC Chapel Hill
Hwang, Jessica	Harvard University	Statistics	Stanford University
Jackson, Jami Nishelle	Columbia University	Statistics	North Carolina State University
Lenssen, Nathan John Lillis	Claremont McKenna College	Statistics
Liu, Keli	Harvard University	Statistics
Pitcan, Yannik Kashif	Harvard University	Statistics	UC Berkeley
Plantinga, Anna	Calvin College	Biostatistics	University of Washington
Waschka, Andre Kurepa	North Carolina State University	Statistics	UC Berkeley

For information on applying for the Graduate Research Fellowship and to see Q&A's with past winners, see these articles

• ​Fellowships for Graduate Study, October, 2013.
• Graduate Fellows Discuss Fellowship Experiences, STATtr@k, October, 2013.
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Meredith Berthelson and Jennifer Slimowitz Pearl, October, 2012.

These awards were 11 of the 66 awarded through the Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS). Here is the breakdown for DMS awards by field of study: ​

	Algebra, Number Theory, and Combinatorics	18
	Analysis	1
	Applied Mathematics	17
	Biostatistics	3
	Computational Mathematics	2
	Computational Statistics	1
	Geometric Analysis	1
	Logic or Foundations of Mathematics	3
	Mathematical Biology	4
	other (specify) - Algebraic Geometry	1
	other (specify) - Analytic Number Theory	1
	other (specify) - Dynamics	1
	other (specify) - Geometry	1
	Probability	1
	Statistics	7
	Topology	4

If you are curious what the most represented baccalaureate institutions are, here are the top 20 of 476 institutions for the 2014 awards (which represents 547 of the 2000 GRF awardees):

Cornell University	48
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	47
Stanford University	36
University of California-Berkeley	33
Princeton University	28
University of Florida	28
University of Maryland	28
University of California-San Diego	27
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY	27
Harvard University	27
University of Washington	26
University of California-Los Angeles	26
University of Texas at Austin	24
Yale University	23
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	22
California Institute of Technology	21
Duke University	20
University of California-Davis	19
Columbia University	19
Georgia Institute of Technology	18

The 21 most represented, out of 273 total, in the Current Institution category (representing 862 awardees of the 1843 with Current Institution listed) are

Stanford University	76
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	74
Cornell University	53
University of Washington	53
University of California-Berkeley	50
Harvard University	43
University of Texas at Austin	42
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY	42
Yale University	41
University of California-Irvine	37
Northwestern University	37
University of California-Los Angeles	36
University of Michigan Ann Arbor	35
California Institute of Technology	34
Georgia Institute of Technology	32
Columbia University	32
University of Wisconsin-Madison	30
University of Colorado at Boulder	30
Duke University	29
University of California-San Diego	28
Princeton University	28

For GRF proposal funding rate information, I received this email from the administrators on 6/30/14:

For the 2014 GRFP, NSF received over 14,000 submitted applications and made 2,000 awards. For the 2012 and 2013 competitions, NSF received over 13,000 applications each year, and made 2,000 awards. Beyond that, we regret that we are unable to provide any statistics about the applicant or awardee pool.

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