Cassidy Henry wins DoD Scholarship

Incoming PhD student Cassidy Henry wins a SMART Scholarship from the US Department of Defense.

Congratulations to incoming PhD student Cassidy Henry, for winning a prestigious SMART Scholarship from the US Department of Defense. Designed to increase the civilian scientific workforce in DoD laboratories, this "Science, Mathematics And Research for Transformation" Scholarship covers tuition and stipend for 5 years, in exchange for employment at a government laboratory upon completion. So 2023 will bring a return to work on computational linguistics research in the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate (CISD) at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, West (ARL-W) in Los Angeles, where Cassidy is presently a student research apprentice, and has been since June 2016.