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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 Summer Funding Competition. 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.  

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

 Dissertation fellowships were awarded to: 

  • Carlos Ramirez Arenas, religion  
  • Emily Beauparlant, social psychology  
  • Chelsea Bouldin, cultural foundations of education  
  • John Brigham, earth sciences   
  • Semaj Campbell-Blakes, history  
  • Stephen Caviness, teaching and curriculum  
  • Ahmet Celik, religion  
  • Shreyas Aralumallige Chandregowda, civil engineering  
  • Sicong Chen, computer engineering and information science   
  • Joseph Colbert, biology  
  • Nicholas Croce, social science  
  • Amber Ford, chemistry  
  • Lerie Gabriel, composition and cultural rhetoric  
  • Nicole Yeannine Moller Gonzalez, geography  
  • Xiaoxia Huang, political science  
  • Jianqing Jia, mathematics  
  • Linghua Jiang, human development and family science  
  • Kelly Kearns, counseling and counselor education  
  • Marie Kramer, mathematics  
  • Qingyang Liu, human development and family science  
  • Yang Liu, instructional design, development and evaluation   
  • Michael McCall, political science  
  • Catherine Montgomery, clinical psychology  
  • Katherine Mott, sociology  
  • Zakery Munoz, composition and cultural rhetoric  
  • Brian Odiwuor, mathematics education  
  • David Okanlawon, anthropology  
  • Felipe Oliveira, philosophy  
  • Madeline Olley, English  
  • Zhijuan Niu, instructional design, development and evaluation   
  • Jared Rosenberg, exercise science  
  • Sarah Souders, public administration  
  • Sarah Stegeman, history  
  • Nimisha Thakur, anthropology  
  • Sidney Turner, composition and cultural rhetoric  
  • Renci Xie, Doctor of Juridical Science   
  • Dong Zheng, civil engineering  

 Pre-Dissertation fellowships were awarded to:  

  • Aleyna Akyuz, physics  
  • Md Mahbubul Alam, chemistry  
  • Karisa Bridgelal, composition and cultural rhetoric  
  • Fatma Celik, religion  
  • Nelson Donkor, chemical engineering  
  • Luanxin Gao, economics  
  • Si Gao, counseling and counselor education  
  • Falak Hadi, political science  
  • Antonia Hamilton, clinical psychology  
  • Sadam Hussain, anthropology  
  • Geoffrey Huyck, composition and cultural rhetoric  
  • Joanne Kim, public administration  
  • Amanda Kingston, cultural foundations of education  
  • Kaia Kirk, political science  
  • Fasika Melese, instructional design, development and evaluation   
  • Arda Oz, English  
  • Eunji Park, counseling and counselor education  
  • Abdul Bashir Pazhwak, social science  
  • David Peters, mass communications  
  • Caroline Plecki, biology  
  • Vatya Raina, anthropology  
  • Hannah Rembrandt, speech-language pathology  
  • Karie Schmitz, mathematics  
  • Soham Sinha, English  
  • Ilariac Siriner, cognitive psychology  
  • Paige Spencer, religion  
  • Aditya Srinivasan, social science  
  • Xihe Tian, counseling and counselor education  
  • Nathalie Uwamahoro, electrical and computer engineering  
  • Benjamin Valen, social psychology  
  • Bryce Whitwam, mass communications  
  • Jiahe Xing, economics  
  • Zonglin Yang, earth sciences   
  • Shuo Zhang, economics  
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