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Julian Killingback was selected as a Fellow candidate for the 2022 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Killingback, a UMass Amherst Manning CICS master's degree student who will join the CIIR as a doctoral student, is working on his MS thesis with CIIR Associate Director Hamed Zamani. This prestigious fellowship program provides students with three years of funding over a five-year fellowship period.