This year, the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Student Council (IDSC) joined forces to combine the Annual SGS Awards Convocation with the IDSC Community of Scholars Research Day Celebration. As Master of Ceremonies, Dr.Denis Medeiros, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, welcomed the many guests; and Constance Smith Mahone, Manager of Graduate Student Services presented the following awards:
Superior Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards:
- Kate Umble Campos (Conservatory of Music and Dance)
- Kristen Downer (Bloch School of Management)
- Amber Hiinton-Dampf (A&S Psychology)
- Laramie Pence (School of Biological Science)\
- Nicholas Salestrom (A&S EnglishI)
- Todd Whitaker (A&S Mathematics and Statistics)
Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship Recipients:
- John Chittum (DMA Music Composition – Conservatory of Music and Dance)
- Aswani Dutt Vadlapudi (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. / Pharmaceutical Science and Chemistry)
- Jouliana Sadek (Interdisciplinary Ph.D. / Cell Biology and Biophysics and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry)
- Denisse Tiznado (Ph.D. Clinical Health Psychology – College of Arts and Science)
Arthur Mag Graduate Fellowship Recipient:
Chad Voss (School of Law / Bloch School of Management)
Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award presented to:
- Kristin Griffeath, M.S. Musicology (Thesis adviser: Dr. Sarah Tyrrell) for her thesis titled, “War Sirens: How the Sheet Music Industry Sold World War I”
Outstanding Dissertation Award presented to:
- Ryan Jesperson, DMA Music Composition (Dissertation advisor: Dr. Chen Yi) for his dissertation titled, “Songs from Behind the Curtain: An Opera in Three Acts”
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Community of Scholars Research Poster Contest: A total of 37 Interdisciplinary Ph.D. students submitted research posters. A panel of faculty judged the posters and selected the following four entries as the best in each broad research category represented. The winners each received a prize of $500, provided by the School of Graduate Studies.
Megha Barot Pharmaceutical Sciences/Chemistry
- Advisor: Dr. Ashim K. Mitra
- Moxifloxacin: A Valuable New Addition To Chemotherapeutic Armamentarium For The Treatment Of Retinoblstoma
Tao Zhang Pharmaceutical Sciences/Chemistry
- Advisor: Dr. Bi-Botti Youan
- Spray Drying Tenofovir Loaded Mucoadhesive and pH-Sensitive Microsphere for HIV Prevention
Nazgol Bagheri Geosciences/Sociology
- Advisor: Dr. Steven L. Driever
- Mapping Women in Tehran’s Public Spaces: An Application of Qualitative GIS in Feminist Geography
Khaldoun Ahmad Geosciences/Chemistry
- Advisor: Dr. Caroline Davies
- MINERALOGY and SEDIMENTOLOGY of Al-AZRAQ (JORDAN) CORE #3: INDICATIONS of PALEOENVIRONMENT and PALEOLAKE LEVELS