Research Awards | Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Danielle Jensen-Ryan

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Awards 2018 Danielle Jensen-Ryan, a recent doctoral candidate in anthropology, is recognized for her innovative work in environmental policy. She asks fundamental but previously neglected questions about how policy decisions are made and where science might belong—if at all—in the hierarchy of influences....

Jonathon Vandezande

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Awards 2018 Jonathon Vandezande, a recent doctoral candidate in computational and quantum chemistry, has established a record of distinction in both academics and independent research. With a creative understanding of how to overcome scientific challenges, he has shown a strong ability to bring...

Joseph Kindler

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Awards 2018 Joseph Kindler, a recent doctoral graduate in foods and nutrition, has created a body of work that is already influencing the field of nutrition and bone health on an international scale, publishing as the lead or co-author on nine peer-reviewed publications....

Dan Du

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Awards 2018 Dan Du, a recent doctoral candidate in history, combines analytical methods drawn from economics, cultural studies, and material culture in an extraordinarily innovative way. Her dissertation examined the impacts of the Sino-American tea trade from 1784 through the early 20th century....

Kyle Benowitz

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Award

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Graduate Student Excellence-in-Research Awards 2018 Kyle Benowitz, a doctoral graduate in genetics, has distinguished himself as one of the top researchers applying molecular studies to evolutionary aspects of animal behavior. He has published several papers in top journals examining species-specific aspects of behavior in two species...

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...