Students Daniel Sierra and Shawn Griffiths are the recipients of the 2014 Kuhn Family Intellectual Entrepreneurship Award. The award winners are selected by the DDCE Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-Graduate Internship Program at UT Austin.
This award is unique in that it provides a stipend to both the selected undergraduate and their departmental mentor.
Both students are earthquake engineering researchers and will receive a $1,000 scholarship. Daniel is a civil engineering senior and NSF REU research student working with Assistant Professor Brady Cox. Shawn, a Ph.D. student, is his mentor.
Designed to encourage first-generation undergraduate students to pursue their academic passions, this award finances opportunities to travel to research conferences and visit potential graduate schools. Award recipients also participate in a Pre-Graduate school internship the semester they receive their award.
Daniel and Shawn are one of only nine teams selected across the university.
