AUBURN UNIVERSITY –A 2012 graduate of Auburn University has been selected as a Marcus L. Urann Fellow, an award presented by the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi to members entering the first year of graduate or professional school.
As a part of the fellowship, Paul Bergen, who graduated from Auburn with a 3.97 GPA and degrees in microbiology and German, will receive a $15,000 stipend, according to a release from Auburn University. Bergen is one of six recipients nationally and one of 190 students to receive an institutional nomination for the fellowship. Only one student per university may be nominated.
As a recent winner of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, Bergen will pursue a doctorate degree in pathology at the University of Cambridge with a focus on how salmonella infects the host intestinal cell and overcomes the immune system response to cause disease, according to the release.
Bergen is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, where he is continuing research that he began in AU's Department of Biological Sciences, according to AU.
The prestigious fellowships were created by Phi Kappa Phi in 2009, according to the release. A grant from the Alice and Russell True Foundation provides the funds to endow the fellowship.