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Graduate School Awards Summer Fellowships

Monday, April 25, 2022, By Ellen de Graffenreid
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The Graduate School has awarded summer fellowships to 83 Syracuse University doctoral students from 34 academic departments. Fellowships were awarded to 43 early-stage doctoral students who have not yet completed course work, qualifying exams or other milestones prior to All But Dissertation (ABD) status. These recipients were chosen from among 108 applicants.

Additionally, dissertation fellowships were awarded to 40 doctoral students to facilitate progress towards the completion of their dissertation.

Candidates were selected by a panel of graduate faculty and staff who assessed each candidate’s academic standing and ability to make progress toward a significant program milestone such as coursework completion, qualifying exams or dissertation completion, depending on the candidate’s stage in their program.

The summer fellowships for students who have not yet reached ABD status were supported through COVID relief funding support.

“We are pleased to support both graduate students who are close to completion and those whose early progress toward their doctoral degree milestones was slowed due to the pandemic. Thanks to the University’s allocation of COVID relief funds, we were able to award additional academic year fellowships and project-based funding for faculty to support graduate students,” says Peter Vanable, dean of the Graduate School.

“I congratulate all of our summer fellowship recipients and hope that this funding enables them to reach their next milestone.”

Dissertation fellowship recipients include:

  • Aatif Abbas, Philosophy
  • Keshab Adhikari, Mathematics Education
  • Siaw Appiah-Adu, Anthropology
  • Sarah Araldi-Brondolo, Biology
  • Alec Beaton Jr., Chemistry
  • Christopher Bousquet, Philosophy
  • Farrah Brown, Political Science
  • Tony Chamoun, Anthropology
  • Lauren Cooper, English
  • Ayse Dalgali, Information Science and Technology
  • Raj De, Physics
  • Shawn Dormann, Chemistry
  • Natalie El-Eid, English
  • Xiwei Guo, Geography
  • Sarthak Gupta, Physics
  • Alexander Hartwell, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Md Shahadat Hossain, Chemistry
  • Huseyin Zeyd Koytak, Sociology
  • Athena Last, Sociology
  • Riliang Li, Civil Engineering
  • Ajaya Mali, Anthropology
  • Mariah Maxwell, College Science Teaching
  • Shea Meyer, Chemistry
  • Adriana Mucedola, Mass Communications
  • Sean Nalty, Philosophy
  • Alex O’Connell, English
  • Chen Quan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Krishna Yashwant Ranaware, Social Science
  • Hooman S. Abootorabi, Business Administration
  • Sefa Secen, Political Science
  • Subhasree Sengupta, Information Science and Technology
  • Caitlin Smith, Human Development and Family Science
  • Phillandra Smith, Special Education
  • Nikolaus Wagner, Biology
  • Chenyan Wang, Bioengineering
  • Joseph Wasswa, Civil Engineering
  • Jared Whear, Geography
  • Tackla Winston, Bioengineering
  • Jeongwon Yang, Mass Communications
  • Kairui Zhang, Bioengineering

Pre-dissertation fellowship recipients include:

  • Jeffrey Adams, English
  • Sanup  Araballi, Computer/Information Science and Engineering
  • Johnson Agyapong, Bioengineering
  • Emily Beauparlant, Social Psychology
  • Roseanna Benser, Sociology
  • Chelsea Bouldin, Cultural Foundations of Education
  • Peter Brennan, Earth Sciences
  • ParKer Bryant, Literacy Education
  • Dylan Caskie. English
  • Stephen Caviness, Teaching and Curriculum
  • Burak Cilhoroz, Exercise Science
  • Hannah Connolly, Social Science
  • Jersey Cosantino, Cultural Foundations of Education
  • Easton Davis, Cultural Foundations of Education
  • Fatima Dobani, Clinical Psychology
  • Xiaoyu Fu, Human Development and Family Sciences
  • Kellan Head, Philosophy
  • Curtis Jewell, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
  • Subodh Kalia, Computer/Information Science and Engineering
  • Sawinder Kaur, Computer/Information Science and Engineering
  • Kelly Kearns, Counseling and Counselor Education
  • Kyle Leister, Exercise Science
  • Jared Liebergen, Philosophy
  • Jingzhi Liu, Chemical Engineering
  • Claudine Lucena, Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Cheng Lyu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Samantha Maguire, School Psychology
  • Zakery Muñoz, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric
  • Felipe Oliveira, Philosophy
  • Destiny Orantes, Clinical Psychology
  • Yuri Pavlov, Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation
  • Xiaoxuan Qu, Counseling and Counselor Education
  • Carlos  Ramirez Arenas, Religion
  • Jared Rosenberg, Exercise Science
  • Morgan Shaw, English
  • Zhihan Su, Marriage and Family Therapy
  • Naveed Tahir, Computer/Information Science and Engineering
  • Cassidy Thomas, Social Science
  • Nastassia Vaitsiakhovich, Sociology
  • Alison Vrabec, Clinical Psychology
  • Lei Wang, Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation
  • Aliza Willsey, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Yiming Xu, Physics
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