Pullman student receives Fulbright research award

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Pullman native Marisol Contreras is one of nine University of Iowa students to receive a Fulbright award.

She's a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering and was chosen from more than 11,000 students nationally considered for a Fulbright Study and Research grant.

Contreras is working with a research group at the Julich Research Center in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, investigating the environmental impacts associated with renewable hydrogen production

Fewer Fulbright awards were issued this year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic and deferrals for awards given for 2020-21.

For the sixth consecutive year in 2020-21, the UI was named a top-producing institution of Fulbright students nationally.