Below are the list of funders that have supported me during my graduate education and post-doctoral research, ranging from fellowships to research funds. Thank you to the many agencies and groups that have helped me carry out my research!

This website and the research materials reported here are supported by the National Human Genome Resource Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number 1F99HG012711-01 (granted for my dissertation work) and 4K00HG012711-03 (granted for my post-doctoral work). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of Margarita Hernandez and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institutes of Health. 

The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium has supported my dissertation work through the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) Graduate Fellowship awarded in 2021 and 2022. 

The Department of Anthropology at Penn State has provided funding for my dissertation project through the Hill Fellowship Training Award, the Hill Fellowship Post-Comprehensive Examination Award, and the Paul T. Baker Research Travel Fund in Human Biology and Anthropology awarded in 2018 and 2021.

This research is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE1255832. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of Margarita Hernandez and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

The Penn State Graduate School has supported my dissertation project through the Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship awarded in 2017. 

The Penn State College of Liberal Arts has supported my dissertation project through the RGSO Dissertation Support Competition awarded in 2021.