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Thirty-Four Doctoral Students Awarded Summer Dissertation Fellowships

Sunday, May 30, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid
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The Graduate School has awarded Summer Dissertation Fellowships to 34 doctoral candidates to facilitate progress toward completion of their dissertation. Each $4,000 award provides funding to offset living or research-related expenses, allowing candidates to fully focus on completing their degrees.

The fellowships were initiated to provide funding to help doctoral candidates complete their dissertations in a timely manner and to address the need for more summer funding opportunities. The funding is provided through the Invest ϲ initiative to strengthen support for graduate education and research.

“The Summer Dissertation Fellowships are one part of a broader set of initiatives to support our doctoral students in completing their degrees in a timely fashion,” says Associate Provost and Graduate School Dean Peter Vanable. “The 2021 recipients represent the broad range of disciplines and scholarship that ϲ is known for.”

The following doctoral candidates—listed with their program—were awarded fellowships:

  • Oluseyi Odunyemi Agbelusi, Anthropology
  • Avery Brooke Albert, Clinical Psychology
  • Merrrill Einar Asp, Physics
  • Ruta Basijokaite, Earth Sciences
  • Rose Anita Bell, Philosophy
  • Ana Cortes, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
  • Sara Jean Dampf, Chemistry
  • Deyasini Dasgupta, English
  • Elizabeth Skye Davis, Political Science
  • Jacob Paul Deblois, Science Education
  • Yousr Dhaouadi, Chemical Engineering
  • Kirsis Allennys Dipre, Counseling and Counselor Education
  • Alexander Richard Ebert, Biology
  • Carrie Elliott, Sociology
  • Weston Henry Fenner IV, Sociology
  • Jennifer Lynn Heckathorn, Teaching and Curriculum
  • Evan Hixon, English
  • Stephanie Veronica-Marie Jones, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
  • Mattie Theobald Mackenzie-Liu, Public Administration
  • Mariana Mendes Bahia, Speech-Language Pathology
  • Keith Newvine, Literacy Education
  • Buddhini Chathurangi Nugaduwa Vithanage, Chemistry
  • Shreyas Pathreeker, Chemical Engineering
  • Jessica Powers, Clinical Psychology
  • Sean Hamilton Reid, Anthropology
  • Linnea Judith Ritchie, Biology
  • Sarika Kumari Sharma, Information Science and Technology
  • Andrea Marie Smith, Mass Communications
  • Maria Madison Smith, Anthropology
  • Kyungwon Suh, Political Science
  • Shaelise Marie Tor, Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Yiran Yang, Chemistry
  • Anemone Zeneli, Teaching and Curriculum
  • Xiaoyan Zhang, Human Development and Family Science
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