First-year Pharmaceutical Sciences graduate students Muhammad Khalifa and Brynna Wilken-Resman have been named 2016 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellows. These are three-year awards based on students “demonstrated potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise,” according to the award letters. Financial support, tuition, and university fees are paid for via these prestigious fellowships. Khalifa has begun working for Jennifer Golden, assistant professor in the drug discovery research core of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division. He is a 2014 graduate of the University of Oregon, where he studied biochemistry. Wilken-Resman is a 2015 chemistry graduate of the University of Minnesota-Twi

n Cities and works in the laboratory of Robert Thorne, assistant professor in drug delivery in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Division.