![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20090508100213im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Maura Borrego receives prestigious National Science Foundation Presidential Award
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December 22, 2008
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Maura Borrego, an assistant professor in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering's Department of Engineering Education received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for the development of methods that will better prepare faculty and graduate students for interdisciplinary research.
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