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Graduate School Summer Funding Competition Awards Announced

Monday, April 15, 2024, By Diane Stirling
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Seventy-one scholars are the recipients of dissertation and pre-dissertation fellowship awards through The Graduate School’s . The $4,500 awards are given annually to a select group of outstanding doctoral students to support progress to degree and dissertation completion. The awards are part of an expansion of funding and benefits programs announced by the Office of the Provost last spring.ÌýÌý

This year’s awards provide funding for summer research and writing to students in 43 different programs.ÌýÌý

ÌýDissertation fellowships were awarded to:Ìý

  • Carlos Ramirez Arenas, religionÌýÌý
  • Emily Beauparlant, social psychologyÌýÌý
  • Chelsea Bouldin, cultural foundations of educationÌýÌý
  • John Brigham, earth sciencesÌýÌýÌý
  • Semaj Campbell-Blakes, historyÌýÌý
  • Stephen Caviness, teaching and curriculumÌýÌý
  • Ahmet Celik, religionÌýÌý
  • Shreyas Aralumallige Chandregowda, civil engineeringÌýÌý
  • Sicong Chen, computer engineering and information scienceÌýÌýÌý
  • Joseph Colbert, biologyÌýÌý
  • Nicholas Croce, social scienceÌýÌý
  • Amber Ford, chemistryÌýÌý
  • Lerie Gabriel, composition and cultural rhetoricÌýÌý
  • Nicole Yeannine Moller Gonzalez, geographyÌýÌý
  • Xiaoxia Huang, political scienceÌýÌý
  • Jianqing Jia, mathematicsÌýÌý
  • Linghua Jiang, human development and family scienceÌýÌý
  • Kelly Kearns, counseling and counselor educationÌýÌý
  • Marie Kramer, mathematicsÌýÌý
  • Qingyang Liu, human development and family scienceÌýÌý
  • Yang Liu, instructional design, development and evaluationÌýÌýÌý
  • Michael McCall, political scienceÌýÌý
  • Catherine Montgomery, clinical psychologyÌýÌý
  • Katherine Mott, sociologyÌýÌý
  • Zakery Munoz, composition and cultural rhetoricÌýÌý
  • Brian Odiwuor, mathematics educationÌýÌý
  • David Okanlawon, anthropologyÌýÌý
  • Felipe Oliveira, philosophyÌýÌý
  • Madeline Olley, EnglishÌýÌý
  • Zhijuan Niu, instructional design, development and evaluationÌýÌýÌý
  • Jared Rosenberg, exercise scienceÌýÌý
  • Sarah Souders, public administrationÌýÌý
  • Sarah Stegeman, historyÌýÌý
  • Nimisha Thakur, anthropologyÌýÌý
  • Sidney Turner, composition and cultural rhetoricÌýÌý
  • Renci Xie, Doctor of Juridical ScienceÌýÌýÌý
  • Dong Zheng, civil engineeringÌýÌý

ÌýPre-Dissertation fellowships were awarded to:ÌýÌý

  • Aleyna Akyuz, physicsÌýÌý
  • Md Mahbubul Alam, chemistryÌýÌý
  • Karisa Bridgelal, composition and cultural rhetoricÌýÌý
  • Fatma Celik, religion Ìý
  • Nelson Donkor, chemical engineeringÌýÌý
  • Luanxin Gao, economicsÌýÌý
  • Si Gao, counseling and counselor educationÌýÌý
  • Falak Hadi, political scienceÌýÌý
  • Antonia Hamilton, clinical psychologyÌýÌý
  • Sadam Hussain, anthropologyÌýÌý
  • Geoffrey Huyck, composition and cultural rhetoricÌýÌý
  • Joanne Kim, public administrationÌýÌý
  • Amanda Kingston, cultural foundations of educationÌýÌý
  • Kaia Kirk, political scienceÌýÌý
  • Fasika Melese, instructional design, development and evaluationÌýÌýÌý
  • Arda Oz, EnglishÌýÌý
  • Eunji Park, counseling and counselor educationÌýÌý
  • Abdul Bashir Pazhwak, social scienceÌýÌý
  • David Peters, mass communicationsÌýÌý
  • Caroline Plecki, biologyÌýÌý
  • Vatya Raina, anthropologyÌýÌý
  • Hannah Rembrandt, speech-language pathologyÌýÌý
  • Karie Schmitz, mathematicsÌýÌý
  • Soham Sinha, EnglishÌýÌý
  • Ilariac Siriner, cognitive psychologyÌýÌý
  • Paige Spencer, religionÌýÌý
  • Aditya Srinivasan, social scienceÌýÌý
  • Xihe Tian, counseling and counselor educationÌýÌý
  • Nathalie Uwamahoro, electrical and computer engineeringÌýÌý
  • Benjamin Valen, social psychologyÌýÌý
  • Bryce Whitwam, mass communicationsÌýÌý
  • Jiahe Xing, economicsÌýÌý
  • Zonglin Yang, earth sciencesÌýÌýÌý
  • Shuo Zhang, economicsÌýÌý
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