Scott Adams and Kenny Ng were named as Presidential Fellows by the Graduate School. This is "the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the final phase of their dissertation research." Scott studies the deaths of massive stars and is surveying nearby galaxies for stars vanishing to form a black hole without a luminous supernova. Kenny is interested in using astrophysical systems to probe new particle physics, and is currently studying the interactions between cosmic rays and the Sun.