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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 Syracuse 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 Syracuse University 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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