Research Awards

Richard Chandler

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Fred C. Davison Early-Career Scholar Award

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Fred C. Davison Early Career Scholar Award 2017 Richard Chandler, assistant professor of wildlife ecology and management, researches how to narrow the divide between ecological theory and application to advance knowledge about wildlife population dynamics and enhance conservation efforts. His unique approach fuses theoretical models with...

Jamie Kreiner

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar

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Michael F. Adams Early Career Scholar Award 2017 Jamie Kreiner, assistant professor of history, is an accomplished historian of the early Middle Ages. Her research focuses on the mechanics of culture, including how medieval communities thought that knowledge and commitments were communicated, adopted and affected by...

Biao He

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Entrepreneur of the Year, Inventor of the Year Award

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Matt Hauer

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2017 Matt Hauer, a recent doctoral graduate in geography, has academic training spanning sociology, demography and population geography, or “spatial demography.” He displays remarkable acumen in identifying timely policy-relevant research topics and is recognized for his dissertation, which explored sea level rise...

Charles Adron Farris III

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2017 Charles Adron Farris III, a recent doctoral graduate in theatre and performance studies with a certificate in Native American Studies, is recognized for his contributions to the study of indigenous American theater and performance. His dissertation was the first intensive study...

Brian Crawford

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2016 Brian Crawford, a recent doctoral graduate in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, is recognized for his dissertation, which integrated creative field research, ecological population modeling, assessments of stakeholder attitudes toward management and stakeholder-based structured decision-making. He was instrumental...

Nickolas Castro

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2017 Nickolas Castro, a recent doctoral graduate in mathematics, distinguished himself by making a major breakthrough in mathematics in his thesis on decomposition of smooth 4-manifolds, a 4-dimensional space like the space-time universe we live in. His research has proved essential for...

Hannah Bullock

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award 2017 Hannah Bullock, a recent doctoral graduate in microbiology, is recognized for the new insights her research has provided into a major pathway of the ocean sulfur cycle. Her work focuses on the metabolism by marine bacteria of an organosulfur compound named...

Hongmin Chen

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Postdoctoral Research Award

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Postdoctoral Research Award 2017 Hongmin Chen, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Chemistry, is recognized for his contributions to the engineering of nanoparticles for imaging and therapy. Two projects are related to the synthesis and use of nanoparticles for imaging and cancer treatment. In one...

David K. Thomson

Posted on Apr 2, 2017 in Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award

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Robert C. Anderson Memorial Award 2017 David K. Thomson, a recent doctoral graduate in history, is recognized for his groundbreaking scholarship on financing of the American Civil War, which cost the federal government $3.2 billion. Thomson traveled across the U.S. and globally to understand the role of...