2017 Graduate Awards | Graduate School

Taylor D. Ackley

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of Music

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Audrey Lane Ellis

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of Philosophy
From Embodiment to Intercorporeality: The Dancing Body as Invitation and as Interruption

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Laura James

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of English
"The Power of Filth": Dirt, Waste, and Gender in Modern Fiction, 1890-1945

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Chatham Lovette

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of Philosophy, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Dreaming Queer: re-thinking the relationship between dreaming and radical philosophical activity

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Jennifer Nicoloro-SantaBarbara

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of Psychology

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Lisa Robison

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student Department of Psychology
Effects of Modifiable Lifestyle Factors on Behavior and Pathology in Mouse Models of Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

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Francisco Delgado

President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students Department of English
Trespassing Race: Dystopian Fiction by Multi-Ethnic American Authors

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Han Fang

President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Graphical and machine learning algorithms for high-throughput genomics data

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Daphne Meza

President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Effect of Combined Fluid Shear Stress and Cyclic Tensile Stretch on Vascular Endothelial Cells

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Saul S. Siller

President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students Department of Pharmacological Sciences
The Centriolar Distal Appendage Proteins CEP164 and Chibby1 Coordinate Multiple Steps in the Formation and Maintenance of Airway Multicilia

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Laurel Yohe

President’s Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students Department of Ecology & Evolution
The molecular evolution of bat chemosensory systems reveals sensory loss and innovation

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Jasna Boudard

Dorothy G. Pieper Award Department of Art

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Paola Cépeda

Madeline Fusco Fellowship Department of Linguistics
Negation and Time: Against Expletive Negation in Temporal Clauses

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Vahideh Rasekhi

Dean’s Alumni Association Leadership Award Department of Linguistics

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Vanessa Lynn

Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award Department of Sociology Vanessa Lynn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology. Her dissertation research examines the narratives of formerly incarcerated people. She interrogates these narratives to understand whether and how their subject position in the criminal justice system, from the war on drugs to their prison time, is related to different rehabilitation programs they participated in while incarcerated.
Shikha Singh

John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics Department of Computer Science
Outsourcing Storage and Computation to Tackle Challenges Posed by Big Data

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Suzan M. Walters

Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship Department of Sociology
Diffusion of Awareness about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention: A Mixed Method Comparative Analysis of Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), People Who Inject Drugs (PWID), and Heterosexuals at High Risk for HIV

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David Yee

Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award Department of History
In the Shadow of the Metropolis: Housing and Segregation in Mexico City, 1940-1976

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Melissa Cohen

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service as a Graduate Program Coordinator Department of Ecology & Evolution

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Adrienne Munich

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a Faculty Member Department of English; Cultural Analysis and Theory; Art

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David Talmage

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a Faculty Member Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology

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