Svetlana Gelpi (Gascon Group) was awarded the GEM Fellowship sponsored by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This fellowship awards students the following: $16,000 stipend in the first academic year of the GEM Fellowship; GEM Member University provides a living stipend up to the 5th year of PhD program; a minimum of one paid summer internship with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; full tuition and fees at a GEM University Member.

Gelpi will be working under the supervision of Dr. Felice Lightstone and Dr. Brian Bennion (from the Biochemical and Biophysical Systems Group at Lawrence Livermore) in collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline on a project to further automate Computer Aided Drug Design and Discovery.