<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/four-f-m-alums-awarded-national-science-fellowships.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>08/06/2021</pubDate><title>Four F&amp;M Alums Awarded National Science Fellowships</title><description>Four Franklin &amp; Marshall College alumni recently received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships to advance their graduate work. They shared their thoughts about how F&amp;M prepared them for graduate school and offered some advice to Diplomat undergraduates majoring in their field of study.</description><author>Peter Durantine</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/393905707798952948-conor-larison-physics-res.0.77.2400.1446.full.jpg" alt="In this 2019 photo, Conor Larison 21 (left) and Faisal Alam 19 complete physics summer research."/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Astronomy and Astrophysics</tag><tag>Chemistry</tag><tag>Earth and Environmental Science</tag><tag>Engineering</tag><tag>Physics</tag><tag>Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies</tag></tags></item>