2018 Graduate Award Winners
President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students
Jennifer Carter, Philosophy
Jianqiu Guo, Materials Science
Jianping Huang, Chemistry
Hans Niederhausen, Physics
Scott Zukowski, English
The winners of the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students will present
a synopsis of their research (geared to a non-specialist audience) at a symposium
held in conjunction with the Graduate Awards Ceremony. One of these winners will be
asked to give a commencement speech at the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student
Paola Cepeda, Linguistics
Jamie MacDonald, Psychology/ Social and Health
Joelle Mann, English
Camilo Rubbini, Economics
Michael Schrimpf, Ecology and Evolution
Ingrid Solano, Psychology/ Clinical
The winners of the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching will be invited to
participate in the August 2018 Workshop for New Teaching Assistants, presented each
year to new doctoral students during graduate orientation events.
Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship
Jamie Sommer, Sociology
Madeline Fusco Fellowship Award
Xiaofei Li, Biomedical Engineering
Faculty-Staff Dissertation Fellowship Award
Chikako Takahashi, Linguistics
John Marburger III Fellowship for Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Vihitaben Patel, Biomedical Engineering
Joyce Turner Dissertation Fellowship Award
Helana Darwin, Sociology
Dean's Alumni Association Leadership Award
Molly Graffam, SoMAS
Dorothy L. Pieper Award
Joseph Santarpia, Art
Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring by a faculty member
Chang Kee Jung, Physics
Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching by a faculty member
Clinton Rubin, Biomedical Engineering
Dean's Award for Excellence in Service by a Graduate Program Director (GPD)
John Bailyn, Linguistics
Wali Karzai, Molecular and Cell Biology
Dean's Award for Excellence in Service to Graduate Education by a Graduate Program
Coordinator (GPC)
Cynthia Santa Cruz-Scalzo, Computer Science
