# @trinityu on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-28T18:00:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Trinity University (@trinityu) — https://gondola.cc/trinityu

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Audrey Davis ’24 is now an NSF Graduate Research Fellow! 🎓

Audrey Davis ’24 still remembers the box of rocks that arrived at her doorstep in Spring 2021.

It was her first year as a Trinity student, and she was fully remote that year, navigating science classes and labs through a screen, yet her professors in the Department of Earth and Environmental Geosciences went out of their way to include her. They sent those rocks and shared a virtual microscope program so that she could experience hands-on learning despite the hundreds of miles between them.

That sense of academic support, community, and belonging helped Audrey find her way from uncertainty to purpose, culminating in her selection for the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) for her research in Geosciences - Biogeochemistry. The NSF-GRFP is a highly sought-after award, with only about 5% of applicants selected in past years.

With the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Audrey will be starting a Master of Science in Environmental Science and Engineering this fall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, the nation’s top-ranked public school of public health. She is looking forward to continuing her geochemistry research to help develop solutions for environmental issues, while also gaining experience in policy and science communication to advocate for such solutions.

“As much as I love delving into what’s happening at the microscopic level with trace element mobilization and organic geochemistry, I really love environmental science because it’s science that helps people and the planet,” Audrey says. “It explores how environmental pollution sources are not only mechanically happening, but who they’re affecting, how they’re affecting them, and how we can help resolve these things.”

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