Microsoft Research Blog: “2020 Ada Lovelace and PhD Fellowships help recipients achieve broad research and educational goals”

January 23, 2020

Jazette Johnson, a recipient of the fellowship who is a PhD student at University of California, Irvine, is hoping to improve the mental, emotional, and social health of people with dementia. Johnson’s research seeks to understand how to better support people with dementia and their caregivers through the design of virtual support technologies. “This fellowship will not only ease the financial burden that sometimes comes with being in graduate schools, but it will also give me the opportunity to solely focus on the research that has interested me for years,” Johnson says.

Read the full story at the Microsoft Research Blog.