Alicia Timme-Laragy Receives 2005 EPA STAR Fellowship

Friday, Aug. 19, 2005/DURHAM, N.C. – Alicia Timme-Laragy, a doctoral candidate at the Nicholas School’s Superfund Basic Research Center, has received a three-year Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Center for Environmental Research.

STAR Fellowships provide financial support up to $37,000 a year to help cover tuition, fees and research expenses, and to provide students with a monthly stipend. They are among the most competitive graduate fellowships in the environmental fields.

Timme-Laragy will receive $31,764 a year to support her doctoral thesis on “Interactive Effects of Aryl Hyrocarbon Receptor Agonists and CYP Inhibitors in the Zebrafish Embryo.”

Her adviser is Richard T. DiGiulio, professor of environmental toxicology and director of Duke University's Integrated Toxicology Program and the Superfund Basic Research Center.

She is the third Nicholas School student in two years to receive a STAR Fellowship. David Volz and Deanna Howarth won them last year.