Stephanie Anne Maddox, daughter of Larry H. and Jane C. Maddox and a graduate of Dreher High school has been awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (NDSEG).

The fellowship program, offered through the Department of Defense, provides the U.S. with talented, doctorate- level American men and women who will lead state-of- the- art research projects that will benefit national defense.

Maddox, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, is majoring in experimental psychology. Her research awards include a Magellan Scholarship to conduct research with Dr. Barbara B. Oswald, a Summer Research Institute in Experimental Psychology Fellowship funded by the National Science Foundation, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

Maddox has been an instructor for students taking psychological statistics and is president of Psi Chi, the psychology honor society. She received the Roger W. Black Scholarship for psychological research and second place in the neuroscience category at the university's 2007 Discovery Day. She plans to pursue a doctoral degree in behavioral neuroscience at Yale University.